Routledge African Writers: Intellectual Biographies, Literary Histories

Routledge African Writers: Intellectual Biographies, Literary Histories is a series of concise intellectual biographies of African writers.

These short books situate writers within the context of their entire bodies of work, within debates around their oeuvres, as well as within the larger historical contexts of their literary, political and regional affiliations. The series emphasises the interconnections between writers and their worlds, demonstrating how the emergence and consolidation of their literary lives is rooted in particular historical, psychological and social contexts.

The series aims to redefine and democratize current understandings of the African literary canon. To that end, we feature writers whose works together reflect the diversity of ideas, topics, languages, regions, and genres that make up African literature.

Combining original scholarly expertise and archival research with an accessible writing style, these books will be useful guides for researchers and students in the fields of African, postcolonial and World literature, as well as the interested general reader.

To submit proposals, please contact the series editors, or Routledge’s African Studies Editor, Helena Hurd ([email protected])

Series Editors:

Lily Saint, Wesleyan University, USA
Bhakti Shringarpure, University of Connecticut, USA