World Literature and Its Times: Vol. 2 African Literature and Its Times

Cover Page......Page 1
Title Page......Page 4
ISBN 0787637270......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
General Preface......Page 7
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Introduction to African Literature and Its Times......Page 12
Chronology of Relevant Events......Page 16
Contents by Title......Page 37
Contents by Author......Page 39
Photo Credits......Page 41
African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe......Page 44
The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born......Page 56
Burger's Daughter......Page 66
Chaka......Page 78
The Concubine......Page 90
Cry, the Beloved Country......Page 100
The Dark Child......Page 110
Death and the King's Horseman......Page 120
Dilemma of a Ghost......Page 130
A Dry White Season......Page 140
Efuru......Page 150
An Egyptian Childhood......Page 162
The Epic of Son-Jam......Page 174
Eguianos Travels: The Interesting Narrative of the Life ofOlaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa the African......Page 184
The Famished Road......Page 194
Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade......Page 206
"Farahat's Republic"......Page 216
Houseboy......Page 236
Ibn Eattuta in Black Africa......Page 246
Jagua Nana......Page 258
The Joys of Motherhood......Page 268
The Last Duty......Page 280
The Maze of Justice......Page 290
Midaqq Alley......Page 302
Mine Boy......Page 312
Mission to Kola......Page 322
Nedjma......Page 332
Nervous Conditions......Page 340
The Oil Man of Obange......Page 352
Out of Africa......Page 360
The Palm-Wine Drinkard and His Dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Deads' Town......Page 370
The Pillar of Salt......Page 380
"The Rivonia Trial Speech"......Page 390
The Sand Child......Page 400
Season of Migration to the North......Page 410
So Long a Letter......Page 420
Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol......Page 430
The Story of an African Farm......Page 440
Sweet and Sour Milk......Page 452
Things Fall Apart......Page 464
Valley Song......Page 474
Waiting for the Barbarians......Page 486
A Walk in the Night......Page 496
We Killed Mangy-Dog and Other Mozambique Stories......Page 504
Weep Not, Child......Page 514
When Rain Clouds Gather......Page 524
Woman at Point Zero......Page 536
The Wretched of the Earth......Page 546
Yaka......Page 558
Index......Page 570