Document Type

Book Review

Publication Date

Spring 1986

Publication Title

World Literature Today

Volume

60

Issue

2

First Page

350

Last Page

351

Abstract

At a time when African writers and critics are deliberately engaged in a search for a matrix within which African literary esthetics may be defined and formulated, Emmanuel Ngara's singular study of the influence of Marx- ism on African writing is a welcome contribution to the critical canons of the modern African novel. Undoubtedly, this search for a matrix calls for a constant definition of the role not only of art but also of the artist in society. On a continent still struggling to liberate itself from the impact of imperialism and Eurocentrism, it is small wonder that social- ism and Marxism have affected the political, economic, and cultural life of a significant number of independent African countries.

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This article was reused with kind permission.

DOI: 10.2307/40141877 Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/40141877

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