Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Contributors

General Editor's Preface

Introduction

Editorial Note

Part I: The Institution of the Novel in Africa and the Carribean

1. The Reinvention of the Novel in Africa
Simon Gikandi and Maurice Vambe

2. Cultures of Print in the Caribbean
Gail Low

3. The Novel and Decolonization in Africa
Mpalive-Hangson Msiska

4. The Novel and Decolonization in the Caribbean
Supriya Nair

Part II: Geographies of the Novel

5. The Novel in African Languages
Alena Rettovà

6. Expatriate Writers
Simon Lewis

7. The City and the Village: Geographies of Fiction in Africa
Jennifer Wenzel

8. Geographies of Migration in the Caribbean
J. Dillon Brown


PART III. The Novel and Cultural Politics

9. Women Novelists in Africa and the Caribbean
Elaine Savory

10. Gender and Sexuality in Caribbean Fiction
Alison Donnell

11. Gender and Sexuality and Africa Fiction
Brenna Munro

12. The Novel and Apartheid
Andrew van der Vlies

13. The Novel and Human Rights
Joseph Slaughter


Part IV: The Novel, Orality, and Popular Culture

14. Popular Fiction in Africa and the Caribbean
Jane Bryce

15. Oral and Popular Cultures in the African Novel
James Ogude

16. Oral and Popular Cultures in the Caribbean
Natasha Barnes

Part V. Styles and Genres

17. The Novel and History in Africa
Eleni Coundrioutis

18. The Novel and History in the Caribbean
Nana Wilson-Tagoe

19. Romance and Realism
Yogita Goya

20. Modernism and Modernist Fiction
Tim Watson

21. Autobiography and Autobiographical Fiction in the Caribbean
Sandra Pouchet Paquet

22. Autobiography in Africa
Kgomotso Michael Masemola

23. Short Stories in the Caribbean
Victor Ramraj

24. Short Stories in Africa
Antonia Kalu

25. Detective Fiction
Matthew Christensen


Part VI: New Frontiers

26. African Fiction in a Global Context
Peter Kalliney

27. Caribbean Fiction in a Global Context
Raphael Dalleo

28. Experimental Fictions
Evan Mwangi

29. The Novel in Translation
Shaden Tageldin


Part VII: Critical Understandings

30. The Novel and the Question of Language
Chantal Zabus

31. Criticism of the Novel in the Caribbean
Simon Gikandi

32. The Novel in Africa: Theories and Debates
Gaurav Desai

Composite Bibliography

Index of Authors and Primary Texts

General Index

About the Author

Simon Gikandi is Robert Schirmer Professor of English at Princeton University. His previous books include Slavery and the Culture of Taste (2011), Ngugi wa Thiong'o (2004), Writing in Limbo: Modernism and Caribbean Literature (1992), and Maps of Englishness: Writing Identity in the Culture of Colonialism (1996),. He is also the editor of The Encyclopedia of African Literature (2009) and was editor of PMLA, the official journal of the Modern Languages Association
(MLA), from 2011-2016.