Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 World Literature, the Print Medium, and the Writing of Postcolonial Literary History; 2 Shifting Fields: Imagining Literary Renewal in Itinerário and Drum; 3 Lewis Nkosi, Mário Pinto de Andrade, Eugénio Lisboa: Beginnings in African Literary Criticism; 4 Sing for Our Metropolis: Self and Media in the Poetry of Rui Knopfli and Wopko Jensma; 5 Print and Colonialism in Southern African Realism; Conclusion: African Literature Then and Now; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary
Looks at both the Anglophone literature of South Africa and the lusophone literature of Angola and Mozambique. This study suggests that the prevalence of 'colonial' languages such as English and Portuguese in 'anticolonial' or 'postcolonial' African Literature is primarily an effect of the print network
