Readings in African Popular Fiction explores the social, political, and economic contexts of popular narratives by bringing new and classic essays by important scholars in African literature together with eight primary texts. This lively volume includes selections by Alex LaGuma, Bernth Lindfors, and Dorothy Driver.

About The Author
Stephanie Newell is Smuts Memorial research Fellow in African Studies at the University of Cambridge. She is author of Literary Culture in Colonial Ghana (just approved for IUP co-pub with Manchester UP), Ghanaian Popular Fiction (Currey; Ohio, 2000), and editor of Images of African and Caribbean Women: Migration, Displacement, Diaspora (Centre for Commonwealth Studies, 1996), Images of African Women: The Gender Problematic (Centre for Commonweatlh Studies, 1995), and Writing African Women: Gender, Popular Culture, and literature in West Africa (Zed Books, 1997).