Challenges current approaches to African book history by setting up a dialogue between literary production and the texts themselves
Covers previously unexamined material from the African Writers Series
Provides an interdisciplinary study of African literature and history

Autorentext
Olabode Ibironke is Assistant Professor of English at Rutgers University, USA.

Inhalt
Preface.- Introduction.- 1. The Commonwealth Impresario.- 2. The Literary Scramble for Africa: Selection and The practice of Hierarchies.- 3. The Seeds of the Series: Chinua Achebe and the Educational Publisher.- 4. Wole Soyinka: The Pan-African Literary Practice.- 5. Ngugi: Language, Publics, and Production.- 6. Postcolonialism: Dialectic of Autonomy and Determinism.- Conclusion.