Culture-clash is the most predominant theme of the contemporary African fiction. Highlighting this aspect, the present book takes up for detailed study the novels of T.M. Aluko and Cyprian Ekwensi, and to some extent the novels of Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka as part of the comparative framework. Trapped between tradition and modernity, the protagonists of all these writers undergo a great mental trauma in their quest for identity before they affirm themselves. Constructing this paradigm, the Author has offered a lucid exposition of what may be called the quintessential theme of the African novel.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR G. Gulam Tariq
G. Gulam Tariq hails from Kadapa town of Andhra Pradesh, India. He taught at the department of English, Osmania College, Kurnool, for 23 years until recently and joined the newly- established Yogi Vemana University at Kadapa as Associate Professor and head, Department of English. He did his Master’s from Annamalai University and Phil. and Ph.D. on Nigerian Literature from Sri Krishnadevaraya University, Anantapur. He has attended many literary seminars and conferences and presented scholarly papers, especially in the area of African literature and other new literatures.
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