The Oxford History of the Novel in English
The Novel in Africa and the Caribbean since 1950
Edited by Simon Gikandi
Author Information
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.
Contributors:
Natasha Barnes, J. Dillon Brown, Jane Bryce, Matthew Christensen, Eleni Coundouriotis,
Raphael Dalleo, Gaurav Desai, Alison Donnell, Simon Gikandi, Yogita Goyal, Peter Kalliney,
Anthonia Kalu, Simon Lewis, Gail Low, Kgomotso Michael Masemola, Mpalive-Hangson
Msiska, Brenna Munro, Evan Mwangi, Supriya Nair, James Ogude, Sandra Pouchet Paquet,
Victor Ramraj, Alena Rettová, Elaine Savory, Joseph Slaughter, Shaden Tageldin, Maurice
Vambe, Andrew van der Vlies, Tim Watson, Jennifer Wenzel, Nana Wilson-Tagoe, Chantal
Zabus.