Culture, Society and Politics in Modern African Literature: Texts and Contexts Book

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
Ch. 1	Introduction	3
Ch. 2	The Sociology of Modern African Literature	11
Ch. 3	Things Fall Apart: The Politics of Negation, Nationalism, and Negotiation in an African Novel	21
Ch. 4	Text and Context: Teaching Teachers of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart	33
Ch. 5	Teaching Wole Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman to American College Students	43
Ch. 6	Art, Ideology, and the Militarized African Postcolony: A Sociological Reading of Wole Soyinka's Season of Anomy	49
Ch. 7	Cheik Hamidou Kane's Ambiguous Adventure: A Note on African Cultural Dilemma	65
Ch. 8	Writing as Painting: Place and Community in Naguib Mahfouz's Fountain and Tomb (Joseph Obi)	75
Ch. 9	Being a Woman in the Nigerian Colonial Situation: Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood	81
Ch. 10	Art, Ideology, and Ngugi wa Thiongo's Devil on the Cross (Tanure Ojaide)	95
Ch. 11	Contexts in Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter	107
Ch. 12	Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions	117
Ch. 13	The Troubadour: The Poet's Persona in the Poetry of Dennis Brutus	125
Ch. 14	The New African Poetry in English: Content and Form	139
Ch. 15	The Half-Brother of the Black Jew: The Poet's Persona in the Poetry of Syl Cheney-Coker	147
Ch. 16	Literature and the Social Functions of Language: Critical Notes on an African Debate	159
	Notes	173
	Index	181