African Literature in Transition: Volume 5

Thisvolume offers literary histories and analyses of a wide range ofgenres in African literature and verbal arts.It provides aholistic and accessible presentation of African literary history that incorporates different types of texts, different regions of the continent, and different languages (English, French, Swahili, Hausa).Both genres with a longer history and those with more recent histories in Africa receive attention. The genres covered includememoirs, travelogues,Shairi, protest poetry, activist theatre, dictator novels, child soldier narratives, prison writing, speculative fiction, market literature, environmental literature, graphic narrative, and queer writing. The volume furnishes overviews of other genres such as campus narrative, crime fiction, and romance. Genres belonging to popular culture as well as those associated with high literary forms are discussed. This collection of literary histories also shows how popular and high literary cultures have intersected and diverged in different locations across Africa since the early 1900s.