African Novels in the Classroom

by Hay, Margaret Jean

• ISBN13: 9781555878535
• ISBN10: 1555878539
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-04-30
• Publisher: Lynne Rienner

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(10)
Margaret Jean Hay
Peter Abrahams's A Wreath for Udomo	11	(14)
Richard Rathbone
Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart	25	(12)
Martin A. Klein
Ayi Kwei Armah's The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born	37	(12)
Emmanuel Akyeampong
Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter	49	(14)
James A. Pritchett
Driss Chraibi's Mother Comes of Age	63	(12)
Janice Spleth
Lindsey Collen's The Rape of Sita	75	(10)
Beverly B. Mack
Maryse Conde's Segu	85	(12)
Joye Bowman
Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions	97	(10)
Bill Bravman
Mary Montgomery
Modikwe Dikobe's The Marabi Dance	107	(8)
Iris Berger
Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood	115	(18)
Misty L. Bastian
Buchi Emecheta's The Slave Girl	133	(12)
Kathleen Sheldon
Nuruddin Farah's Gifts	145	(8)
Lidwien Kapteijns
Elsa Joubert's Poppie Nongena	153	(14)
Jeanne Penvenne
J. Nozipo Maraire's Zenzele: Letters to My Daughter	167	(10)
Karen R. Keim
Meja Mwangi's Going Down River Road	177	(14)
Charles Ambler
Ngugi wa Thiong'o's A Grain of Wheat	191	(12)
Margaret Jean Hay
Djibril Tamsir Niane's Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali	203	(12)
Curtis A. Keim
Flora Nwapa's Efuru	215	(14)
Sandra E. Greene
Ferdinand Oyono's Houseboy	229	(12)
Barbara M. Cooper
Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North	241	(10)
Farouk Topan
Ousmane Sembene's God's Bits of Wood	251	(20)
Dennis D. Cordell
Wole Soyinka's Ake: The Years of Childhood	271	(16)
Tamara Giles-Vernick
Moyez G. Vassanji's The Gunny Sack	287	(10)
Jamie Monson
P. T. Zeleza's Smouldering Charcoal	297	(9)
Melvin E. Page
Novels by Region	306	(2)
Novels by Principal Themes	308	(1)
The Contributors	309	(5)
About the Book	314