Challenging Hierarchies
Subtitle: Issues and Themes in Colonial and Postcolonial African Literature (Society and Politics in Africa, Vol. 5)
Contributors: Leonard A. Podis (Editor); Yakubu Saaka (Editor)
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic; Lang Publishing, Incorporated, Peter
Published: June 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780820437101
Subjects: African; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Achebe, Chinua; African Literature; African literature (English); Criticism and interpretation; History and criticism; Postcolonialism in literature
Description: Challenging Hierarchies explores the provocative and compelling work of African authors, from the writing of eighteenth-century social critic Ottobah Cugoano to that of contemporary novelists Chinua Achebe, Tsitsi Dangarembga, and Ben Okri. The book focuses on challenges to colonial and neo-colonial oppression, with a special emphasis on African feminism and the work of women writers.

Combining criticism, fiction, and creative autobiography, Challenging Hierarchies reflects the vital spirit of African literature and literary studies today.