JAHN, JANHEINZ:
A History of Neo-African Literature. Writing in Two Continents.
London; Faber and Faber, 1968. Original title: Geschichte der neoafrikanischen Literatur (Düsseldorf-Köln, 1966). Translated by Ursula Lehrburger. 301 pp. Publisher´s cloth with printed dustjacket. The jacket very slightly chipped. A fine copy. ''The book is divided into four main sections, the first dealing with the cultural and historical background, containing accounts of the little-known works of writers of African descent, like Juan Latino who wrote Latin verse in sixteenth-century Spain and the black ''educational guinea-pigs'' of the Age of Enlihgtenment. ''The African Scene'' has chapters on 'oral literature', Hausa and Swahili writing, and 'protest' and 'apprentice' work in European and African languages throughout the continent; and 'The American Scene' deals comprehensively with verse and prose in Latin America and the West Indies as well as the USA - not omitting the blues and the Calypso.'' (front flap text).
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