War and the End of Empire: readings
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Felicity Hand, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Primary TextsBoehmer, Elleke (ed), Empire Writing: An Anthology of Colonial Literature 1870-1918, Oxford World Classics, 2001.
Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Weep Not, Child, Heinemann, 1964.
Emecheta, Buchi, Destination Biafra, Fontana, 1983.
Nwapa, Flora, Wives at War and Other Stories, Trenton: Africa World Press, [1980] 1992.
Soyinka, Wole, Madmen and Specialists, Methuen, 1971.
Secondary Texts Achebe, Chinua, Beware, Soul Brother, Heinemann, 1971. Selected poems.
Achebe, Chinua, The Trouble with Nigeria, Heinemann, 1983. Extracts.
Amadi, Elechi, Sunset in Biafra, London: Heinemann, [1973] 1982. Extracts
Andrade, Susan Z., “Rewriting History, Motherhood, and Rebellion: Naming an African Women’s Literary Tradition”, Research in African Literatures, Vol. 21, Nº 1, 1990: 91-110.
Booker, M. Keith, “ A Brief Historical Survey of the African Novel” in The African Novel in English, Heinemann, 1998.
Buchan, John, Prester John, OUP, [1910] 1994. Chapter VII
Elleke Boehmer (ed), Empire Writing: An Anthology of Colonial Literature 1870-1918, Oxford World Classics, 2001. Etracts.
Emecheta, Buchi, Destination Biafra, Fontana, 1983.
Fanon, Frantz, “On National Culture” & Senghor, Léopold Sédar, “Negritude: A Humanism of the Twentieth Century” in Williams, P & L. Chrisman (eds), Colonial Discourse and Postcolonial Theory, London:Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1993.
Gurnah, Abdulrazak, “Transformative Strategies in the Fiction of Ngugi wa Thiong’o” in Abdulrazak Gurnah (ed), Essays on African Writing, Heinemann, 1993.
James, Lawrence, "The Rise and Fall of the British Empire," Little, Brown and Company, 1994. Chapters 5 & 6 of Part 5
Krebs, Paula M., “Interpreting South Africa to Britain – Olive Schreiner, Boers, and Africans” in Gender, Race, and the Writing of Empire. Public Discourse and the Boer War, Cambridge U.P. 1999.
Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Weep Not, Child, Heinemann, 1964.
Ngugi, “Mau Mau, Violence and Culture” & “Church, Culture and Politics » in Homecoming, Heinemann, (1972) 1981.
Ngugi, “Towards a National Culture” & “Kenya: The Two Rifts” in Homecoming, Heinemann, (1972) 1981.
Ngugi, “Writers in Politics”, “J.M. – a Writer’s Tribute” & “Born Again: Mau Mau Unchained” in Writers in Politics, Heinemann, 1981.
Nicholls, Brendon, “The Topography of “Woman” in Ngugi’s Weep Not, Child”, The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Vol. 40, Nº 3, 2005, pp81-101.
Nwapa, Flora, “Wives at War” & “A Wife’s Dilemma” in Wives at War and Other Stories, Trenton: Africa World Press, [1980] 1992.
Radziwill,Princess Catherine, Cecil Rhodes. Extracts. Whole text available from http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16600/16600-h/16600-h.htm
Roberts, Brian, Those Bloody Women.Three Heroines of the Boer War, John Murray, 1991. Extract.
Rodgers, Terence, “Empires of the Imagination: Rider Haggard, Popular Fiction and Africa”, in Msiska, Mpalive-Hangson & Paul Hyland (eds), Writing and Africa, Longman, 1997.
Soyinka, Wole, Madmen and Specialists, Methuen, 1971.
Stratton, Florence, “The Mother Africa Trope” in Contemporary African Literature and the Politics of Gender, Routledge, 1994.
Thompson, Leonard, “Diamonds, Gold, and British Imperialism, 1870-1910” in A History of South Africa, Yale UP, 1990
Trivedi, Harish, “Ngugi wa Thiong’o in Conversation”, Wasafiri, Nº 40, Winter 2003: 5-10.
Uzokwe, Alfred Obiora, Surviving in Biafra, Lincoln, NE: Writers Advantage, 2003. “Introduction”
Willan, Brian, “The Siege of Mafeking” in Peter Warwick (ed), The South African War, Longman, 1980.
