West African literatures: ways of reading

Where is West Africa?

Negritude

Facing East: Islam and Identity in West African Literature

Oral Literatures

Lost and Found in Translation

Things Fall Apart: Presence and Palimpsest in the ColonialScape

Popular Literature

Griots with Pens in their Hands: Literary Experiments with Oral Genres, 1960s1990s

Feminism and the Complex Space of Womens Writing

Marxism and West African Literature

The Three Posts: Postmodernism, Poststructuralism, Postcolonialism

Experimental Writing by the Third Generation

Queering West African Gender Theory: Calixthe Beyala, Werewere Liking and Vronique Tadjo

Conclusion: West Africa in Postcolonial Theory.