Simon Gikandi

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Simon E. Gikandi, (PhD Northwestern) is Professor of English at Princeton University. He is perhaps best known for his co-editorship (with Abiola Irele) of The Cambridge History of African and Caribbean Literature; easily the most comprehensive survey of its subject.

He has also done important work on the modern African novel, and two distinguished African novelists: Chinua Achebe and Ngugi wa Thiong'o.

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  • Simon Gikandi (1987), Reading the African Novel, (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann).
  • Simon Gikandi (1991), Reading Chinua Achebe, (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann).
  • Simon Gikandi (1992), Writing in Limbo: Modernism and Caribbean Literature, (Ithaca: Cornell University Press).
  • Simon Gikandi (1996), Maps of Englishness: Writing Identity in the Culture of Colonialism, (New York: Columbia University Press).
  • Simon Gikandi (2000), Ngugi wa Thiongʹo (Cambridge Studies in African and Caribbean Literature), (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

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