Africa Writes Back

The African Writers Series and the Launch of African Literature

Häftad, Engelska, 2008

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In 2012 the African Writers Series celebrated its 50th anniversary. Africa Writes Back tells the publishing story behind some of the books and authors in the series.Africa Writes Back was published in 2008 to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the publication of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart - the novel which provided the impetus for the foundation of the Heinemann African Writers Series in 1962 with Chinua Achebe as the Editorial Adviser. With the 60th anniversary of the AWS being celebrated in 2022, James Currey's book has a new resonance.'... not only the story of a publishing enterprise of great significance; it is also a large part of the story of African literature and its dissemination in the latter half of the twentieth century. The manuscript is full of the drama of that enterprise, the drama of dealing with the mother house, William Heinemann, of dealing with the often intractable political constraints dominating the intellectual space across Africa, and not least of all dealing with the writers themselves - with their ambitions,their temperaments, their financial needs and, at time, their perception of a colonial relationship between themselves and a European publishing house.' - Clive Wake, Emeritus Professor of Modern Languages, University of Kent at Canterbury.North America: Ohio U Press; Ghana: Sub-Saharan Publishers; South Africa: Wits U Press; Nigeria: HEBN; Kenya: EAEP; Zimbabwe: Weaver Press

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2008-10-01
Mått152 x 228 x 24 mm
Vikt499 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor352
FörlagJames Currey
ISBN9781847015020

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Publishing and selling the African Writers SeriesThe African Writers Series Portfolio & George Hallett's coversMain dates for the African Writers SeriesINTRODUCTION: The establishment of African LiteraturePublishing Chinua Achebe1. WRITERS FROM WEST AFRICANigeria: The country where so much startedNegritude from Senegal to CamerounMagic & realism from Ghana, The Gambia & Sierra Leone2. WRITERS FROM EASTERN AFRICATowards the oral & the popular in Kenya, Uganda & TanzaniaPublishing Ngugi3. WRITERS FROM THE HORN & NORTH-EASTERN AFRICAEmperors in EthiopiaPublishing Nuruddin FarahArab authors in Egypt & Sudan4. WRITERS FROM SOUTH AFRICA Resistance in South AfricaPublishing Alex la GumaPublishing Dennis BrutusPublishing Bessie HeadPublishing Masizi Kunene5. WRITERS FROM SOUTHERN AFRICANGuns & Guerrillas in Mozambique &AngolaZambia Shall be FreeDeath & detention in MalawiThe struggle to become ZimbabwePublishing Dambudzo MarecheraCONCLUSION: Is there still a role for the African Writers Series?