Columbia Guide to East African Literature in English Since 1945

Simon Gikandi is professor of English at Princeton University. His major fields of research and teaching are the Anglophone literatures and cultures of Africa, India, the Caribbean, and postcolonial Britian, the "Black" Atlantic, and the African diaspora. He is the author of numerous books, including Writing in Limbo: Modernism and Caribbean Literature, Maps of Englishness: Writing Identity in the Culture of Colonialism, and Ngugi wa Thiong'o, which was chosen as a Choice Outstanding Academic Publication. He is also the coeditor of The Cambridge History of African and Caribbean Literature and the editor of the Routledge Encyclopedia of African Literature.Evan Mwangi is assistant professor of English specializing in twentieth-century Anglophone African literature at Northwestern University. Previously, he has taught at the University of Nairobi, Kenya, and Ohio University, and his published works cover different areas of African oral narrative, theater, poetry, and fiction.

• Preface Acknowledgments Chronology of Major Political Events Introduction: East African Literature in English from 1945 to the Present Authors and Topics Selected Bibliography Index

An invaluable resource for literary research and scholarship on East Africa. -- James Ogude African Studies Review This guide offers valuable information... Recommended. Choice A welcome addition to the study of anglophone African literature and should not be missing from African Studies and Literature Libraries. -- Christine Matzke, Humboldt-Universitat Zu Berlin Research in African Literatures Should be included in the reference collection of all institutes of higher education... A must for serious researchers. -- Valentine K. Muyumba American Reference Books Annual