Includes bibliographical references (493-506) and index.
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Tradition. The traditional artist -- African script -- Spoken art -- Sung or chanted art -- Heritage. African literature in Latin -- Three Eighteenth-century African writers in English -- Written indigenous literatures -- The presence of Europe. Beginnings in English -- West African novelists in English -- East, Central, and South African novelists in English -- Africa poetry in English -- Négritude and black writers -- African literature in Portuguese -- Contemporary African prose and poetry in French -- African drama in French and English -- Crosscurrents. "Africa" in Caribbean literature -- Epilogue. The Black environment.