CHILDHOOD IN AFRICAN LITERATURE 21 Black Classic Press Influenced by Lucille Clifton and

Influenced by Lucille Clifton and Gwendolyn Brooks

An Intellectual history of considerable subtlety and richness

Constructing Incest Stories: Black Women’s Voices in Fact and Fiction provides a highly original perspective on incest by an illuminating fusion of social science research and literary analysis

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and that it's people were naturally backward

CHILDHOOD IN AFRICAN LITERATURE 21 Black Classic Press Influenced by Lucille Clifton andAfrican 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