African Literary and Cultural Studies

Description

This encyclopedia means to offer adequate, updated, context-based and culture-oriented understanding of key terms and concepts of African literary and cultural studies. African literature and culture have become scholarly disciplines and subjects of intellectual research in universities, cultural centers and research institutes for more than six decades now. But a full understanding of these disciplines often poses problem to non-African scholars, due to the complexity and versatility of their concepts both in criticism and theories. Such concepts of Theories and criticism of African literature and culture are amply explained here with pluridisciplinary views. Diverse and profund words, concepts and ideas which are not straightforward to scholars alien to Africa and those Africans who are not versed in African cultures are made understandable and clear for various readers. The axiological expressive modes of such concepts demand from the critic, teacher, scholar, researcher and student interpretative efforts to approach the disciplines with more professionalism and intellectual gist; and this Encyclopedia is written to meet that need.