Childhood in African Literature: A Review, Issue 20

Eldred D. Jones, Marjorie Jones

Africa World Press, 1998 - Literary Criticism - 150 pages

"African authors have consistently returned to childhood to find their personal as well as their racial roots. Far from being merely nostalgic yearnings for a lost paradise, many of the treatments of childhood as shown in articles in this issue have exposed a grim reality of cruelty, harshness, parental (particularly paternal) egocentrism and extraordinary bruisings of the vulnerable child psyche. Camara Laye may have portrayed a paradise state but Yvonne Vera has treated one of the cruelest features of childhood anywhere. African authors generally have been sternly responsible in their portrayal of childhood." -- Publisher's description

Bibliographic information

• Title: Childhood in African Literature: A Review, Issue 20; Issue 21 of African literature today, ISSN 0065-4000; Childhood in African Literature: A Review, Marjorie Jones (Fashion designer)
• Editors: Eldred D. Jones, Marjorie Jones
• Publisher: Africa World Press, 1998
• ISBN: 0865436738, 9780865436732
• Length: 150 pages
• Subjects: Literary Criticism / African; Literary Criticism / General