A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CRITICISM AND THEORY PERTAINING TO AFRICAN ORAL TRADITIONS AND LITERATURES

Required works of African literature for graduate students in the Department of African Languages and Literature as a part of their preparation for writing the Department’s PhD preliminary examinations.

Compiled by Harold Scheub, January 12, 1993

[Criticism and theory of both oral tradition and literature are included in this list. The list does not, however, include articles in journals. Students are expected to read relevant articles in the journals. Some works on this list are duplicated on the following list, "Performance Theory."]

A - K

(See Criticism and Theory, L - Z)

1. Abalogu, Uchegbulam N., et al. Oral Poetry in Nigeria 1981 (GR351.3 S44).

2. Amuta, Chidi. The Theory of African Literature 1989 (PL8010 A53 1989).

3. Andrzejewski, B. W., S. Pitaszewicz, and W. Tyloch (eds.). Literatures in African Languages 1985 (PL8010 L585 1985).

4. Anozie, Sunday O. Structural Models and African Poetics 1981 (PN98 S7 A5 1981).

5. Anyinefa, Koffi. Litterature et politique en Afrique noire 1990 (PQ3988.5 C6 A58 1990).

6. Arac, Jonathan. Critical Geneaologies, Historical Situations for Postmodern Literary Studies 1987 (PN94 A7 1987).

7. Arnold, Stephen, et. al., ed. Design and Intent in African Literature 1982 (PL8010 A36 1979).

8. Asante, Molefi Kete. Afrocentricity, The Theory of Social Change 1988 (DT15 A8).

9. Awoonor, Kofi. The Breast of the Earth, A Survey of the History, Culture, and Literature of Africa South of the Sahara 1975 (PL8010 A9).

10. Ba, Sylvia Washington. The Concept of Negritude in the Poetry of Leopold Sedar Senghor (PQ3989 S47 Z58).

11. Badran, Margot, and Miriam Cooke, eds. Opening the Gates, A Century of Arab Feminist Writing (HQ1784 064 1990).

12. Baker, Houston. The Journey Back, Issues in Black Literature and Criticism 1980 (PS153 N5 B24).

13. Bakhtin, Mikhail M. The Dialogic Imagination 1981 (PN3331 B2513).

14. Bakhtin, Mikhail M., and P. N. Medvedev. The Formal Method in Literary Scholarship 1985 (PN98 F6 M413 1985).

15. Barker, Francis, et al. Literature, Politics, and Theory 1986 (D13 U78 1991).

16. Barnett, Ursula A. A Vision of Order, A Study of South African Black Literature in English (1914-1980) 1983 (PR9358.2 B57 B37 1983).

17. Barthes, Roland. Elements de semiologie 1964 (P123 B3813 1968).

18. Bauman, Richard. Verbal Art as Performance 1977 (P35 B3 1978).

19. Bernal, Martin. Black Athena Vol. 1, 1987; Vol. 2, 1991 (DF78 B398 1987 v.1).

20. Bertoncini, E. An Outline of Swahili Literature 1989 (PL8703.5 B47 1989).

21. Biebuyck, Daniel, and Brunhilde Biebuyck. "We Test Those Whom We Marry": An Analysis of Thirty-six Nyanga Tales 1987 (GR357.82 N93 B53 1987).

22. p'Bitek, Okot. Africa's Cultural Revolution 1973 (DT14 B44).

23. Bjorkman, Ingrid. Mother, Sing for Me: People's Theatre in Kenya 1989 (PR9381.9 N45 M6833 1989).

24. Bjornson, Richard. The African Quest for Freedom and Identity, Cameroonian Writing and the National Experience 1991 (PQ3988.5 C27 B55 1991).

25. Blacking, John, and Joann W. Kealiinohomoku (eds.). The Performing Arts: Music and Dance 1979 (GN3 I39 V.9 no. 83).

26. Blair, Dorothy S. African Literature in French 1976 (PQ3980 B5).

27. Bodunrin, P. O. Philosophy in Africa: Trends and Perspectives 1985 (B5320 P47 1985).

28. Booth, James. Writers and Politics in Nigeria 1980 (PR9387.4 B66 1980).

29. Booth, Wayne. The Rhetoric of Fiction 1961 (PN3451 B6).

30. Bowra, C. M. Heroic Poetry 1966 (PN1303 B67).

31. Boyer, Robert. Atrocity and Amnesia, The Political Novel since 1945 1985 (PN3448 P6 B68 1986).

32. Brink, Andre. Writing in a State of Siege, Essays on Politics and Literature 1983 (PR9369.3 B7 M3 1983).

33. Brown, Lloyd W. Women Writers in Black Africa 1981 (PR9340 B7).

34. Burness, Donald. ed. Critical Perspectives on Lusophone Literature from Africa. (PQ9900 C74).

35. Calame-Griaule, Genevieve. Langage et cultures africaines 1977 (PL8003 L33).

36. Cartey, Wilfred. Whispers from a Continent 1969 (PL8010 C3).

37. Cassirer, Ernst. Language and Myth 1946 (P105 C32 1946).

38. Chemain, Roger. L'Imaginaire dans le roman africain 1986 (PQ3980 C49 1986).

39. Chemain, Roger. La ville dans le roman Africain 1981 (PQ3984 C43 1981).

40. Chemain-Degrange, Arlette. Emancipation feminine et roman africain 1980 (PQ3984 C45 1980).

41. Chevrier, Jacques. Litterature nègre 1974 (PQ3897 C5).

42. Chinweizu, Onwuchekwa Jemie, and Ihechukwu Madubuike. Toward the Decolonization of African Literature. Vol. I, African Fiction and Poetry and Their Critics 1983 (PR9340 C48 1983).

43. Clayton, Cherry, ed. Women and Writing in South Africa 1989 (PL8014 S62 W65 1989).

44. Clifford, James, and George M. Marcus (eds.). Writing Culture, The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography 1986 (GN307.7 W75 1986).

45. Coetzee, J. M. White Writing (1988) (PR9358.2 W45 C64 1988).

46. Colin, Roland. Litterature africaine d'hier et de demain 1965 (PL8010 C57).

47. Cornevin, Robert. Litteratures d'afrique noire de langue francaise 1976 (PQ3980 C65).

48. Craig, Betty Jean, ed. Literature, Language and Politics 1988 (PN51 L5743 1988).

49. Culler, Jonathan. On Deconstruction, Theory and Criticism After Structuralism 1982 (PN98 D43 C8 1982).

50. Culler, Jonathan. Structuralist Poetics: Structuralism, Linguistics, and the Study of Literature 1975 (PN98 S7 C8).

51. Curtin, Philip, ed. Africa and the West 1972 (DT 474 C87).

52. Dabla, Sewanou. Nouvelles ecritures africaines: Romanciers de la seconde generation 1986 (PQ3984 D33 1986).

53. Davies, Carole Boyce, and Anne Adams Graves (eds.). Ngambika: Studies of Women in African Literature 1986 (PL8010 N485 1986).

54. Donovan, Josephine, ed. Feminist Literary Criticism, Explorations in Theory 1975 (PN98 W64 F4 1989).

55. Dorson, Richard. The British Folklorists, A History 1968 (GR50 D63).

56. Downing, Christine. The Goddess, Mythological Images of the Feminine 1987 (BL785 D66 1984).

57. Duerden, Dennis, and Cosmo Pieterse (eds.). African Writers Talking 1972 (PR9798.3 P5)

58. Du Plessis, Rachel Blau. Writing Beyond the Ending, Narrative Strategies of Twentieth-Century Women Writers 1985 (PS228 W65 B55 1985).

59. Eagleton, Terry. The Function of Criticism 1984 (PN99 G7 E24 1984).

60. Eagleton, Terry. Literary Theory, An Introduction 1983 (PN81 E23 1983).

61. Eagleton, Terry. Marxism and Literary Criticism 1976 (PN98 C6 E23 1976b).

62. Egudu, Romanus N. Modern African Poetry and the African Predicament 1978 (PL8010.4 E35 1978).

63. Etherton, Michael. The Development of African Drama 1982 (PR9343 E86 1982b).

64. Fame Ndongo, Jacques. L'Esthetique romanesque de Mongo Beti, Essai sur les sources traditionnelles de l'ecriture moderne en Afrique 1985 (PQ3989.2 B45 Z58 1981).

65. Fanon, Frantz. The Wretched of the Earth 1963 (DT33 F313 1968).

66. Fernandez, James. Persuasions and Performances, The Play of Tropes in Culture 1986 (GN452.5 F48 1986).

67. Fine, Elizabeth. The Folklore Text, from Performance to Print 1984 (GR40 F47 1984).

68. Finnegan, Ruth. Oral Literature in Africa 1970 (PL8010 F5).

69. Finnegan, Ruth. Oral Poetry, Its Nature, Significance and Social Context 1977 (PN1341 F46).

70. Foucault, Michel. L'Histoire de la sexualite 1976 (HQ12 F68).

71. Freeberg, David. The Power of Images 1989 (N71 F65 1989).

72. Frye, Northrop. An Anatomy of Criticism 1971 (PN81 F7514).

73. Gakwandi, Shatto Arthur. The Novel and Contemporary Experience in Africa 1977 (PR9344 G3).

74. Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. (ed.). Black Literature and Literary Theory 1984 (PS153 N5 B555 1990).

75. Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. Figures in Black 1987 (PS153 N5 G27 1987).

76. Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. The Signifying Monkey, A Theory of African American Literary Criticism 1988 (PS153 N5 G28 1988).

77. Gayle, Addison. The Black Aesthetic 1971 (NX512.3 N5 G38 1972).

78. Geertz, Clifford. The Interpretation of Cultures 1973 (GN315 G36).

79. Genette, Gerard. Narrative Discourse, An Essay in Method 1980 (PQ2631 R63 A791713).

80. Gerard, Albert. African Language Literatures; An Introduction to the Literary History of Sub-Saharan Africa 1981 (PL8010 G39 1981).

81. Gerard, Albert. Four African Literatures: Xhosa, Sotho, Zulu, Amharic 1971 (PL8010 G4).

82. Gibbs, James, ed. Critical Perspectives on Wole Soyinka 1980 (PR9387.9 S6 Z63).

83. Gikandi, Simon. Reading Chinua Achebe 1991 (PR9387.9 A3 Z68 1991).

84. Gilbert, Sandra, and Susan Gubar. Shakespeare's Sisters, Feminist Essays on Women Poets 1979 (PS310 W64 S5).

85. Goldmann, Lucien. Pour une sociologie du roman 1964 (PN3344 G613 1975).

86. Gombrich, E. H. Art and Illusion 1960 (N70 G615 1968).

87. Goodwin, George. The Poetics of Protest, Literary Form and Political Implications in the Victim-of-Society Novel 1985 (PN3448 P6 G66 1985).

88. Goodwin, Ken. Understanding African Poetry 1982 (PR9342 G66 1982).

89. Gordimer, Nadine. The Black Interpreters, Notes on African Writing 1973 (PR9344 G64).

90. Graham-White, Anthony. The Drama of Black Africa 1974 (PL8010 G7 1974).

91. Gray, Stephen. Southern African Literature, An Introduction 1979 (PR9354.3 G7).

92. Gugelberger, Georg M. (ed.). Marxism and African Literature 1985 (PL8010 M35 1986).

93. Hale, Thomas A. Scribe, Griot, and Novelist 1990 (DT532.27 M63 H35 1990).

94. Hale, Thomas A., and Richard Priebe, eds. The Teaching of African Literature 1977 (PL8010 T32).

95. Hanna, Judith Lynne. The Performer-Audience Connection. Emotion to Metaphor in Dance and Society 1983 (GV1588.6 H36 1983).

96. Harari, Josue V., ed. Textual Strategies, Perspectives in Post- Structuralist Criticism 1979 (PN94 T4).

97. Harland, Richard. Superstructuralism, The Philosophy of Structuralism and Post-Structuralism 1987 (B841.4 H37 1987).

98. Havelock, Eric. The Literate Revolution in Greece and Its Cultural Consequences 1982 (PA273 H27 1982).

99. Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. The Philosophy of History 1902 (D16.8 H47 1956).

100. Herrnstein Smith, Barbara. On the Margins of Discourse. The Relation of Literature to Language 1978 (PN54 S6).

101. Heywood, Christopher, ed. Aspects of South African Literature 1976 (PR9354.3 A8).

102. Hiskett, Mervyn. A History of Hausa Islamic Verse 1975 (PL8233.5 H5).

103. Holland, Henry. Politics through Literature 1968 (PN6071 P57 H6).

104. Hountondji, Paulin J. African Philosophy, Myth and Reality 1983 (B5305 H6813 1983).

105. Hountondji, Paulin J. Sur la "philosophie africaine": critique de l'ethnophilosophie 1983 (B5305 H68).

106. Howe, Irving. Politics and the Novel 1957 (PN3448 P6 H6).

107. Huannou, Adrien. La Question des litteratures nationales 1989 (PN849 A35 H83 1989).

108. Hymes, Dell. "In Vain I Tried to Tell You"; Essays in Native American Ethnopoetics 1981 (PM483.5 H9).

109. Innes, C. L. Chinua Achebe 1990 (PR9387.9 A3 Z7 1990).

110. Irele, Abiola. The African Experience in Literature and Ideology 1981 (PR9340 I7).

111. Irele, Abiola. African Education and Identity 1992 (LA1501 I58 1985).

112. James, Adeola. In Their Own Voices 1990 (PR9340.5 I5 1990).

113. Jameson, Fredric. Marxism and Form, Twentieth Century Dialectical Theories of Literature 1971 (PN98 C6 J3 1974).

114. Jameson, Fredric. The Political Unconscious, Narrative as a Symbolic Act 1981 (PN81 J29).

115. Jameson, Fredric. The Prison House of Language 1972 (P123 J34 1972).

116. JanMohamed, Abdul R. Manichean Aesthetics 1983 (PR9344 J36 1983).

117. Jeyifo, Biodun. The Truthful Lie, Essays in a Sociology of African Drama 1985 (PN2979 J49 1985).

118. Jordan, A. C. Towards an African Literature 1973 (PL8010 J6 1973).

119. Joseph, Lawrence E. Gaia: The Growth of an Idea 1990 (QH331 J74 1990).

120. Julien, Eileen. African Novels and the Question of Orality 1992 (PQ4985 J85 1992).

121. Justin, Andree. Anthologie africaine des ecrivains noirs d'expression francaise 1962 (PQ3985 J8).

122. Kadima-Nzuji, Mukala. La Litterature zairoise de langue francaise 1984 (PQ3988.5 Z34 M84 1984).

123. Kahari, George. The Imaginative Writings of Paul Chidyausiku 1975 (PL8681.9 C54 Z7).

124. Kane, Mohamadou. Roman africain et traditions 1982 (PQ3984 K36 1982)

125. Kane, Thomas. Ethiopian Literature in Amharic 1975 (PJ9260 K3).

126. Kavanagh, Robert. Theatre and Cultural Struggle in South Africa 1985 (PN2984 K38 1985).

127. Kesteloot, Lilyan. Comprendre les poemes de L. S. Senghor 1987 (PQ3989 S47 Z735 1986).

128. Kesteloot, Lilyan. Les ecrivans noirs de langue francaise: naissance d'une litterature 1963 (PQ3897 L3 1983).

129. Killam, G. D. Africa in English Fiction 1874-1939 1968 (PR878 A4 K5).

130. Killam, G. D., ed. African Writers on African Writing (PL8010 K5).

131. Killam, G. D., ed. Critical Perspectives on Ngugi wa Thiong'o 1984 (PR9381.9 N45 Z6 1984).

132. Killam, G. D. The Novels of Chinua Achebe 1969 (PR9387.9 A3 Z7 1969)

133. King, Adele The Writings of Camara Laye 1981 (PQ3989 C27 Z73).

134. King, Bruce, ed. Introduction to Nigerian Literature 1972 (PR9898 N5 I5)

135. Knappert, Jan. Four Centuries of Swahili Verse 1979 (PL8703.5 K5).

136. Kubayanda, Josaphat B. The Poet's Africa 1990 (PQ7389 G84 Z68 1990).

137. Kunene, Daniel. Heroic Poetry of the Basotho 1971 (PL8689.5 K8).

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