The Columbia Guide to Central African Literature in English Since 1945

Adrian Roscoe

Preface

Acknowledgments

Chronology of Major Political Events, 1944-2006

Part I

History and Politics

1. Empire and Colonialism

2. British Imperialism

3. Legitimizing Empire

4. The British in Africa

5. Nyasaland and Northern Rhodesia

6. White Rhodesia

7. Historiography and Literature

8. Independence

Part II

Genres

9. Verse

10. Prose

11. Drama

12. Children’s Literature

13. White Rhodesian Poetry

14. White Rhodesian Fiction

Part III

Authors and Works, A-Z

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Related Subjects

• Literary Criticism and Theory

Series

• Columbia Guides to Literature Since 1945

About the Author

Before his retirement in 2000, Adrian Roscoe was Senior Professor and Head of the Department of English Studies at the University of the North (South Africa). He is the author of Mother is Gold (Cambridge, 1977), Uhuru's Fire (Cambridge, 1988) and The Quiet Chameleon (with Mpalive-Hangson Msiska, Hans Zel Pub, 1992)

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