Simon Gikandi

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.

(Select) Bibliography

*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).

External links

* [http://english.princeton.edu/index.php?option=com_faculty&Itemid=28&func=fullview&facultyid=14 Gikandi's Princeton homepage] Accessed 20 Nov 2007.