Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
Spring 1995
Publication Title
World Literature Today
Volume
69
Issue
2
First Page
414
Abstract
African Rhapsody, an anthology containing the work of twenty-five contemporary writers, prides itself on its diversity of topics from sixteen countries of North, South, East, and West Africa. In this fine harvest authentic stories are told by African writers about African characters and the overwhelming realities of their lives in Africa. Where similar anthologies have focused primarily on stories written in English with a few token translations from the French, African Rhapsody gives breadth not only to stories written originally in English but also to translate stories - five from French, three from Arabic, and one Portuguese. The foreword by Chinua Achebe, itself a concise critical essay on the short story as a genre, situates short story not only as the forerunner of the African novel, the "convenient bridge from oral to written literature," but also as a genre whose appeal resonates African writers.
Recommended Citation
Smith, Pamela J. Olúbùnmi, "Nadezda Obradovic. African Rhapsody: Short Stories of the Contemporary African Experience." (1995). Goodrich Scholarship Faculty Publications. 39.
https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/goodrichfacpub/39
Comments
This article was reused with kind permission. DOI: 10.2307/40151318 Stable URL https://www.jstor.org/stable/40151318