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."]

L - Z

(See Criticism and Theory, A - K)

138. Langer, Susanne K. Feeling and Form 1953 (BF458 L29).

139. Larson, Charles. The Emergence of African Fiction 1971 (PR9799 L3 1972).

140. Laude, Jean. Les Arts de l'Afrique noire 1966 (N7380 L29).

141. Laurence, Margaret. Long Drums and Cannons 1968 (PR9898 N5 L3).

142. Lazarus, Neil. Resistance in Postcolonial African Fiction 1990 (PR9379.9 A7 Z75 1990).

143. Lebel, Roland. L'Afrique occidentale dans la litterature francaise 1925 (MF-1270 Neg. MF-353).

144. Lenake, J. M. The Poetry of K. E. Ntsane 1984 (PL8689.9 N8 Z74 1984).

145. Lentricchia, Frank. After the New Criticism 1980 (PN94 L43).

146. Levi-Strauss, Claude. Anthropologie structurale 1955 (GN315 L42).

147. Levi-Strauss, Claude. Le Pensee sauvage 1962 (GN451 L3813).

148. Levi-Strauss, Claude. Tristes tropiques 1955 (F2515 L493).

149. Liking, Werewere. Une vision de Kaydara d'Hamadou-Hampate-Ba 1984 (PL8184 K33 L5 1984).

150. Lindfors, Bernth, ed. Critical Perspectives on Nigerian Literatures 1976 (PL8014 N6 C7).

151. Locha, Mateso. La Litterature africaine et sa critique 1986 (PQ3981 L6 1986).

152. Lord, Alfred B. The Singer of Tales 1960 (PN1303 L62 1976).

153. Lukacs, Georg. The Historical Novel 1983 (PN3441 L813 1983).

154. Lukacs, Georg. The Theory of the Novel 1971 (PN3331 L813).

155. Lyotard, Jean-Francois. The Postmodern Condition 1984 (BD162 L913 1984b).

156. Maduakor, Obi. Wole Soyinka, An Introduction to His Writing 1987 (PR9387.9 S6 Z77 1987).

157. Madubuike, Ihechukwu. The Senegalese Novel 1983 (PQ3988.5 S4 M3).

158. Makouta-Mboukou, Jean-Pierre. Les grands traits de la poesie negro-africaine 1985 (PQ3982 M35 1985).

159. Makouta-Mboukou, Jean-Pierre. Introduction a la litterature noire 1970 (PL8010 M28).

160. Makouta-Mboukou, Jean-Pierre. Introduction a l'etude du roman negro- africain de langue francaise 1980. (PQ3984 M34).

161. Mander, John. The Writer and Commitment 1961 (PR471 M27).

162. Melone, Thomas. De la negritude dans la litterature negro-africaine 1962 (PL8010 M4).

163. Mernissi, Fatima. Beyond the Veil 1987 (HQ1170 M46).

164. Merquior, Jose Guilherme. From Prague to Paris, A Critique of Structuralist and Post-Structuralist Thought 1986

165. Meyer, Leonard B. Emotion and Meaning in Music 1956 (ML3800 M63).

166. Mfizi, Christopher. L'Oeuvre romanesque de Laye Camara 1970 (MF-2148 Neg. MF-710).

167. Midiohouan, Guy, Ossito. L'Ideologie dans la litterature negro-africaine d'expression francaise 1986 (PQ3981 M52 1986).

168. Miller, Christopher. Blank Darkness, Africanist Discourse in French 1985 (PQ145.7 A35 M55 1985).

169. Miller, Christopher. Theories of Africans, Francophone Literature and Anthropology in Africa 1990 (PQ3980 M55 1990).

170. Minh-ha, Trinh T. Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism (PN471 T75 1989).

171. Mitchell, W. J. T., ed. The Politics of Interpretation 1983 (PN98 P64 1983).

172. Mlama, P. Culture and Development, The Popular Theatre Approach in Africa. (PN3307 T34 M57 1991).

173. Moi, Toril. Sexual/Textual Politics, Feminist Literary Theory 1985 (PN98 W64 M65 1985).

174. Moore, Gerald. Twelve African Writers (PL8010 M63 1980b).

175. Mortimer, Mildred. Journeys through the French African Novel 1990 (PQ3984 M58 1990).

176. Mounin, Georges. Les Problemes theoriques de la traduction 1963 (P306 M66).

177. Mouralis, Bernard. Litterature et developpement 1984 (PQ3980 M68 1984).

178. Mphahlele, Ezekiel. The African Image 1962 (BL2480 I2 024 1984).

179. Mphahlele, Ezekiel. Poetry and Humanism, Oral Beginnings 1986 (GN1 R35 no. 22d).

180. Mudimbe, V. Y. The Invention of Africa 1988 (B5310 M84 1988).

181. Murfin, Ross C., ed. Heart of Darkness: Joseph Conrad, a Case Study in Contemporary Criticism 1989 (PR6005 04 H4 1989).

182. Nash, Roderick. Wilderness and the American Mind 1967 (E169.1N37).

183. Nazareth, Peter. The Third World Writer, His Social Responsibility 1978 (PN849 U5 N39).

184. Ngandu-Nkashama, Pius. La litterature africaine ecrite en langue francaise 1979 (PQ3980 N46).

185. Ngandu-Nkashama, Pius. Ecritures et discours litteraires, Etudes sur le roman africain 1990 (PQ3980 P58 1989).

186. Ngandu-Nkashama, Pius. Litteratures africaines, de 1930 a nos jours (PL8010 N487 1984).

187. Ngara, Emmanuel. Art and Ideology in the African Novel 1985 (PR9344 N52 1985).

188. Ngara, Emmanuel. Ideology and Form in African Poetry 1990 (PL8010.4 N48 1990).

189. Ngara. Emmanuel. Stylistic Criticism and the African Novel 1982 (PR9344 N536 1982).

190. Ngate, Jonathan. Francophone African Fiction, Reading a Literary Tradition 1988 (PQ3984 N46 1988).

191. Ngugi wa Thiong'o. Barrel of a Pen, Resistance to Oppression in Neo-Colonial Kenya 1983 (DT433.584 N49 1983).

192. Ngugi wa Thiong'o. Decolonizing the Mind 1986 (PL8010 N48 1986).

193. Ngugi wa Thiong'o. Homecoming, Essays on African and Caribbean Literature, Culture and Politics 1972 (PR9798 N4).

194. Ngugi wa Thiong'o. Writers in Politics 1981 (PN51 N57).

195. Nkosi, Lewis. Tasks and Masks, Themes and Styles of African Literature 1981 (PL8010 N557).

196. Norris, Christopher. Deconstruction, Theory and Practice 1982 (PN98 D43 N6 1982).

197. Ntuli, D. B. Z. The Poetry of B. W. Vilakazi 1984 (PL8844 V5 Z78 1984).

198. Obiechina, Emmanuel. Culture, Tradition and Society in the West African Novel 1975 (PR9344 02).

199. Ogunba, O. The Movement of Transition, A Study of the Plays of Wole Soyinka 1975 (PR9387.9 S6 Z74).

200. Ogungbesan, Kolawole. New West African Literature (PL8010 N48).

201. Ogungbesan, Kolawole. The Writing of Peter Abrahams 1979 (PR9369.3 A2 Z8 1979b).

202. Okanlawon, Tunde, ed. Comparative Literature and Foreign Languages in Africa Today 1988

203. Okpewho, Isidore. African Oral Literature 1992 (GR350 037 1992).

204. Okpewho, Isidore. The Epic in Africa 1979 (PL8010 038).

205. Okpewho, Isidore. Myth in Africa 1983 (GR350 038 1983).

206. Olson, Alan M., ed. Myth, Symbol, and Reality 1980 (BL304 M87).

207. Ong, Walter J. Orality and Literacy, The Technologizing of the Word 1982 (P35 05 1982).

208. Otokunefor, Henrietta, and Obiageli Nwodo (eds.). Nigerian Female Writers, A Critical Perspective 1989 (PR9387 05 N5 1989).

209. Owomoyela, Oyekan. African Literatures, An Introduction 1979 (PL8010 097).

210. Pageard, Robert. Litterature negro-africaine (PQ3980 P3 1972).

211. Palmer, Eustace. The Growth of the African Novel 1979 (PR9344 P3).

212. Parker, Kenneth, ed. The South African Novel in English 1978 (PR9362.5 S6).

213. Pelton, Richard. The Trickster in West Africa. (GR350.3 P44).

214. Petersen, K., ed. Criticism and Ideology, Second African Writers Conference Stockholm 1986 1988 (PL8010 A452 1986).

215. Priebe, Richard O. Myth, Realism, and the West African Writer 1988 (PR9340 P75 1988).

216. Priebe, Richard O., and Thomas A. Hale, eds. Artist and Audience, African Literature as a Shared Experience 1979 (PL8010 A36 1977).

217. Radin, Paul. The Trickster: A Study in American Indian Mythology 1956 (E99 W7 R142 1969).

218. Ranger, Terence, ed. The Invention of Tradition 1983 (GT95 I58 1983).

219. Ravenscroft, Arthur. Nigerian Writers and the African Past 1978 (PR9387 05 R3836 1978).

220. Ricard, Alain. Naissance du roman africain: Felix Couchoro, 1900-1968 1987 (PQ3989.2 C496 Z6 1987).

221. Ricardou, Jean. Le Nouveau roman 1973 (PQ671 R49).

222. Richards, I. A. Principles of Literary Criticism 1928 (PN81 R5 1930).

223. Roscoe, Adrian A. Mother Is Gold, A Study in West African Literature 1971 (PR9898 W4 R6).

224. Said, Edward. Orientalism 1979 (DS12 S24 1978).

225. Said, Edward. The World, the Text and the Critic 1983 (PN81 S223 1983).

226. Sapir, David, and J. Christopher Crocker, eds. The Social Use of Metaphor 1977 (PN228 M4 S6 1977).

227. Saussure, Ferdinand de. Cours de linguistique generale 1967 (P121 S362).

228. Scheub, Harold. "A Review of African Oral Traditions and Literature," African Studies Review 1985 (AP A258 S934).

229. Schipper, Mineke. Beyond the Boundaries, African Literature and Literary Theory 1989 (PL8010 S352 B4 1989).

230. Scholes, Robert. Semiotics and Interpretation 1982 (PN98 S46 S3).

231. Scholes, Robert, and Robert Kellogg. The Nature of Narrative 1966 (PN3451 S3).

232. Showalter, Elaine, ed. The New Feminist Criticism, Essays on Women, Literature, and Theory 1985 (PN98 W64 N48 1985).

233. Sienaert, Edgard, and Nigel Bell, eds. Oral Tradition and Education 1988

234. Soyinka, Wole. Art, Dialogue and Outrage 1988 (PR9387.9 S6 A88 1988).

235. Soyinka, Wole. Myth, Literature and the African World 1976 (PL8010 S64).

236. Steiner, George. After Babel, Aspects of Language and Translation 1975 (P306 S66).

237. Steiner, Peter. The Prague School 1982 (P147 P7 1982).

238. Suleiman, Susan R. Authoritarian Fictions, The Ideological Novel as a Literary Genre 1983 (PQ671 S94 1983).

239. Sumner, Claude (ed.). The Source of African Philosophy 1986 (B5405 S92 1986).

240. Taiwo, Oladele. Culture and the Nigerian Novel 1976 (PR9387.1 T3).

241. Taiwo, Oladele. Social Experience in African Literature 1986 (PR9340.5 T35 1986).

242. Taiwo, Oladele. Female Novelists of Modern Africa 1984 (PR9344 T34 1985).

243. Tedlock, Dennis. Finding the Center 1972 (PM2711 Z95 E5 1972).

244. Tedlock, Dennis. The Spoken Word and the Work of Interpretation 1983 (E99 Z9 T43 1983).

245. Thompson, Robert Farris. Flash of the Spirit, African and Afro-American Art and Philosophy 1983 (E29 N3 T48 1983).

246. Todorov, Tzvetan. Introduction a la litterature fantastique 1970 (PN3435 T613 1975).

247. Torgovnick, Marianna. Gone Primitive. Savage Intellects, Modern Lives 1990 (NX456.5 P7 T67 1990).

248. Turner, Victor. The Drums of Affliction, A Study of Religious Processes among the Ndembu of Zambia 1986 (BL2480 N35 T8).

249. Turner, Victor. The Forest of Symbols, Aspects of Ndembu Ritual 1967 (DT963.42 T8)

250. Ulmer, Gregory. Applied Grammatology, Pos(e)-Pedagogy from Jacques Derrida to Joseph Beuys 1985 (P106 446 1985).

251. Uspensky, Boris. A Poetics of Composition 1973 (NX200 U613).

252. Vaillant, Janet G. Black, French, and African: A Life of Leopold Sedar Senghor (PQ3989 S47 Z95 1990).

253. Van Gennep, Arnold. Les rites de passage 1908 (GN473 G513 1960).

254. Vansina, Jan. Oral Tradition as History 1985 (D16 V2784 1985).

255. Vansina, Jan. Oral Tradition: A Study in Historical Methodology 1961 (D16 V2873).

256. Vincent, Theo., ed. Seventeen Black and African Writers on Literature and Life 1981 (PR 9340 V56 1981).

257. Wade, Michael. Nadine Gordimer 1978 (PR9369.3 G6 Z95).

258. Watt, Ian. The Rise of the Novel 1957 (PR851 W3).

259. Wauthier, Claude. The Literature and Thought of Modern Africa 1978 (DT21 W313).

260. Wellek, Rene, and Austin Warren. Theory of Literature 1949, 1977 (PN45 W36 1956).

261. Williams, Raymond. Marxism and Literature 1977 (PN98 C6 W54).

262. Wiredu, Kwasi. Philosophy and an African Culture (B5305 W57).

263. Wright, Derek. Ayi Kwei Armah's Africa, The Sources of His Fiction 1989 (PR9379.9 A7 Z98 1989).

264. Wright, Edgar. The Critical Evaluation of African Literature 1973 (PR9340.5 W7).

265. Zumthor, Paul. Introduction a la poesie orale 1983 (PN4151 Z8513 1990).

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