African Fiction and Joseph Conrad

Byron Caminero-Santangelo is Associate Professor of English at the University of Kansas.

• Acknowledgments Introduction Beyond Writing Back: Alternative Uses of Postcolonial Cultural Hybridity 1. Extravagent Aberrations: Conrad, Hybridity, and Chinua Achebe's No Longer At Ease 2. Under Kenyan Eyes: Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Re-Vision of Under Western Eyes 3. Legacies of Darkness: Neo-Colonialism and Conrad in Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North 4. Subjects in History: Disruptions of the Colonial in Heart of Darkness and July's People 5. Struggling Toward the Postcolonial: The Ghost of Conrad in Ama Ata Aidoo's Our Sister Killjoy Conclusion Notes Works Cited Index

"African Fiction and Joseph Conrad is accessible, and will be a good resource for students." — Wasafiri"The value of this work lies in its demonstration that postcolonial African literature goes far beyond 'writing back' to literary works by Western authors, Joseph Conrad being the prime example. By 'writing back,' Caminero-Santangelo means responding to the assertions, often identified as racist, made in earlier works by African writers seeking to counter false Western claims about African people and cultures … This book will be particularly valuable to those interested in non-Western writing." — CHOICE"Caminero-Santangelo's interpretation of Conrad's influence on modern African fiction is original and convincing." — Adeleke Adeeko, author of Proverbs, Textuality, and Nativism in African Literature