final year undergraduate class, which focuses on romantic influences in African literature. On the contrary, though, the book’s depth in theory does not detract from the quality of its central argument, which is clearly well

African literature. On the contrary, though, the book’s depth in theory does not detract from the quality of its central argument, which is clearly well researched andwell written. It will, therefore, be an excellent resource text for many graduate-level courses on postcolonial literature. Besides, as I stressed earlier, this is a book that will get you to reread and reexamine most texts within the postcolonial literary canon, and also provide a template for creating a decolonized curriculum within postcolonial literary discourse and scholarship.