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| #5656234 in Books | Zed Books | 2001-08-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.48 x.40 x4.98l,.52 | File type: PDF | 176 pages | ||1 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Worthwhile|By Reader in Tokyo|This book was published in 2001 by Charles Larson, an American scholar who has studied, taught and written about African lit for some 40 years. It was mainly a survey of the problems faced today by writers in Africa, based on his queries to local writers, critics, educators and publishers as well as other scholars.
The author cited a 199|From Publishers Weekly|In broad terms, The Ordeal of the African Writer grew out of author Charles R. Larson's (The Emergence of African Fiction) dedication to confronting the problems facing African writers problems of finding a publisher, an audience either at
This book demonstrates how only a small number of African writers--like Chinua Achebe, Ben Okri, Nuruddin Farah, and Wole Soyinka--have become known outside of their own continent. It also details the enormous obstacles they face within Africa to get their work published, let alone to support themselves financially from their writing. Charles R. Larson combines writers' own testimony, pen portraits of their lives, and factual investigation to explore the full dimens...
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