Childhood in African Literature

Know about the book -

Childhood in African Literature is written by Eldred D. Jones and published by Africa World Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0865436738 (ISBN 10) and 9780865436732 (ISBN 13).

"African authors have consistently returned to childhood to find their personal as well as their racial roots. Far from being merely nostalgic yearnings for a lost paradise, many of the treatments of childhood as shown in articles in this issue have exposed a grim reality of cruelty, harshness, parental (particularly paternal) egocentrism and extraordinary bruisings of the vulnerable child psyche. Camara Laye may have portrayed a paradise state but Yvonne Vera has treated one of the cruelest features of childhood anywhere. African authors generally have been sternly responsible in their portrayal of childhood." -- Publisher's description