Contemporary Anglophone literary theory: the return of Fanon

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Title:	Contemporary Anglophone literary theory: the return of Fanon
Author:	Berger, Roger A.
Year:	1990
Periodical:	Research in African Literatures
Volume:	21
Issue:	1
Pages:	141-151
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Subsaharan Africa
Subjects:	literature French language
About person:	Frantz Fanon (1925-1961)
External link:	https://www.jstor.org/stable/3819307
Abstract:	The 1980s has witnessed a new and perhaps decisive phase in the evolution of African literary theory. The significant division in African literary theory, however, is to be found in what the present author calls the Fanonist 'threshold' that divides 'accommodation' with existing Western textual strategies and rejection of Eurocentric methodologies in the search for an African means of reading and understanding texts. He offers a brief taxonomy of some contemporary African literary theory by examining the work of Simon Gikandi, Sunday O. Anozie, Abiola Irele, Ngugi wa Thiong'o and Chinweizu. Aim is to situate their work in relation to the Fanonist threshold and contest it in terms of its awareness of the problem of methodology. Bibliogr., notes.