THE AFRICAN NOVEL OF IDEAS, philosophy and individualism in the age of global writing

223pp., paperback, Princeton, 2021

Jeanne-Marie Jackson on the African novel and its connections to African philosophy in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Includes chapters on the work of Imraan Coovadia, Tendai Huchu and Stanlake Samkange.

Jeanne-Marie Jackson is Assistant Professor of English at John Hopkins University and the author of South African Literature's Russian Soul.