Simon Gikandi
Encyclopedia
Simon E. Gikandi, is Professor of English at Princeton University
. He is perhaps best known for his co-editorship (with Abiola Irele) of The Cambridge History of African and Caribbean Literature; easily the most comprehensive survey of its subject.
He has also done important work on the modern African novel, and two distinguished African novelists: Chinua Achebe
and Ngugi wa Thiong'o
.
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
. He is perhaps best known for his co-editorship (with Abiola Irele) of The Cambridge History of African and Caribbean Literature; easily the most comprehensive survey of its subject.
He has also done important work on the modern African novel, and two distinguished African novelists: Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebe
Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe popularly known as Chinua Achebe is a Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic...
and Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o is a Kenyan author, formerly working in English and now working in Gĩkũyũ. His work includes novels, plays, short stories, and essays, ranging from literary and social criticism to children's literature...
.
(Select) Bibliography
- Simon Gikandi (1987), Reading the African Novel, (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann).
- Simon Gikandi (1991), Reading Chinua Achebe, (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann).
- Simon Gikandi (1992), Writing in Limbo: Modernism and Caribbean Literature, (Ithaca: Cornell University Press).
- Simon Gikandi (1996), Maps of Englishness: Writing Identity in the Culture of Colonialism, (New York: Columbia University Press).
- Simon Gikandi (2000), Ngugi wa Thiongʹo (Cambridge Studies in African and Caribbean Literature), (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
External links
- Gikandi's Princeton homepage Accessed 20 Nov 2007.
- Gikandi speaks at University of Minnesota fall 2009