Childhood in African Literature (African Literature Today)
Editorial Reviews
From the Back Cover
African authors have consistently returned to childhood to find their personal as well as their racial roots. Far from being merely nostalgic yearnings for a lost paradise, many of the treatments of childhood as shown in articles in this issue have exposed a grim reality of cruelty, harshness, parental (particularly paternal) egocentrism and extraordinary bruisings of the vulnerable child psyche. Camara Laye may have portrayed a paradise state but Yvonne Vera has treated one of the cruelest features of childhood anywhere. African authors generally have been sternly responsible in their portrayal of childhood.
This volume has a new review section of works by Ken Saro-Wiwa, Ayi Kwei Armah, Jamal Mahjoub, Evelyne Accad, Timothy Wangusa and Peter Slingsby
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About the Author
Eldred Durosimimi Jones is professor of English at Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone, Sierra Leone.
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