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Title: AFRICA WRITES BACK
THE AFRICAN WRITERS SERIES AND THE LAUNCH OF AFRICAN LITERATURE
By: James Currey
Format: Hardback

List price: £60.00


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ISBN 10: 1847015034
ISBN 13: 9781847015037
Publisher: JAMES CURREY
Pub. date: 25 September, 2008
Pages: 288
Description: Discusses various political constraints that dominate the intellectual space across Africa, and not least of all dealing with the writers themselves - with their ambitions, their temperaments, their financial needs and, at time, their perception of a colonial relationship between themselves and a European publishing house.
Synopsis: 17 June 2008 is the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart" by Heinemann. This provided the impetus for the foundation of the "African Writers Series" in 1962 with Chinua Achebe as the Editorial Adviser. '...not only the story of a publishing enterprise of great significance; it is also a large part of the story of African literature and its dissemination in the latter half of the twentieth century. The manuscript is full of the drama of that enterprise, the drama of dealing with the mother house, William Heinemann, of dealing with the often intractable political constraints dominating the intellectual space across Africa, and not least of all dealing with the writers themselves - with their ambitions, their temperaments, their financial needs and, at time, their perception of a colonial relationship between themselves and a European publishing house' - Clive Wake, Emeritus Professor of Modern Languages, University of Kent at Canterbury.
Illustrations: authors' portraits
Publication: UK
Imprint: James Currey
Returns: Returnable
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