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| Title: | Long Drums & Cannons
: Nigerian Dramatists & Novelists 1952-1966 |
| Author: | Margaret Laurence |
| ISBN: | 0888643322 : 9780888643322 |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 155x230mm |
| Pages: | 270 |
| Weight: | .533 Kg. |
| Published: | University of Alberta Press - August 2001 |
| List Price: | 17.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | LITERATURE: HISTORY & CRITICISM: AFRICA |
This is a fascinating study of African postcolonial writing, written by Laurence after her early years in Africa. Her comments on the early writings of well-known Nigerian authors also provide insights into her early African writings and her later Canadian works. She also explores the works of then little-known authors. This new edition of 'Long Drums and Cannons', originally published in 1968 and long out-of-print, also contains Laurence's previously unpublished essay 'Tribalism As Us Versus Them', which provides Laurence's own postscript to her book. Up-to-date biographies with a list of works for each of the writers, detailed annotations to the original text, and a glossary complete this edition. A classic of early postcolonial criticism, of interest to Laurence's wide readership and to anyone interested in African literature.
"...The book's updated biographical and bibliographical sections are invaluable for scholarly readers, as are the annotations, appendices, and commentaries that place Laurence's book into its historical context and compare it to the original typescript..." -- Canadian Literature, 178, Autumn 2003. "In one respect it is a unique book. For where else in the field of post-colonial writing could one find an example of a writer from one region of the English-speaking world embarking on a major study of the literature of another?...It seems to me that the interest of Long Drums & Cannons is essentially two-fold: it offers a pioneering study of Nigerian writing -- one of the first -- over the period of its first flowering (1952-1966) and just before the tragedy of the Biafran War; it is an intelligent, sympathetic introduciton for the reader who wishes to know who is important, or potentially so, and what to read..." Geoffrey V Davis, Margaret Laurence Review, Volume 11.
