A Marxist critical approach to African literature
Subtitle: an introduction
By: Shadrach A. Ambanasom
Publisher: Shiloh Printers
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Bamenda, Cameroon
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9789956621773
Subjects: African literature (English); History and criticism; Cameroonian literature (English); African literature; Marxist criticism; Communism and literature; Communist aesthetics
Notes: Chiefly anglophone authors; also discusses one francophone work and two works originally written in Gĩkũyũ.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-266).
Table of contents: title: Marxist criticism : an overview; title: Ousmane Sembene's God's bit of wood; title: Linus T. Asong's The crown of thorns; title: Chinua Achebe's Anthills of the savannah; title: Ideology in three dramtaic works: Victor Epie Ngome's What god has put asunder, and, Bate Besong's Beasts of no nation and Requiem for the last kaiser; title: Alternative ideological visions in Tah Asongwed's Born to rule, Francis Nyamnjoh's Mind searching and The disillusioned African, John N. Nkengasong's Across the Mongolo, and Alobwed'Epie's The death cerfiticate; title: Ngugi wa Thiongʼo's and Ngugi wa Mirri's I will marry when I want; title: Ngugi we Thiong'o's Devil on the cross.