Gareth Griffiths (University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Australia)

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Gareth Griffiths
Professor
Department of English
University of Western Australia, Nedlands
Perth
WA 6902
Australia

phone:   61 8 93802121/2116
fax:     61 8 93801030
e-mail:  gruffydd@cyllene.uwa.edu.au

I work in the area of African English literatures and in comparative
post-colonial literatures in English. I also have a strong interest in
theatre and drama, including African English lanmguage theatre.  My areas
of interest have been mainly West and East Africa, but in recent times I
have extended my interest to South Africa. 

A Double Exile: African and West Indian Writing Between Two Cultures,
Marion Boyars, London, 1978.

The Empire Writes Back (co-author with Bill Ashcroft and Helen Tiffin),
Routledge, London, 1989.

The Post-Colonial Studies Reader (co-editor with Ashcroft and Tiffin),
Routledge, London, 1995.

Key Concepts in Post-Colonial Studies (co-edited with Ashcroft and
Tiffin), Routledge, London, 1998.


I have authored many chapters in books and articles in journals, a number
of which are on African topics.  I include a selection of these:

"Language and Action in the Novels of Chinua Achebe" African Literature
Today No.5; 1971. (Reissued in Critical Perspectives on Chinua Achebe. Ed.
C.L.Innes and Bernth Lindfors; Three Continents Press; Washington,1978.

"The Language of Disillusion in the African Novel" in Commonwealth. Ed.
Anna Rutherford; Aarhus U.P., Aarhus,1971

"Structure and Image in Ayi Kwei Armah's 'The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet
Born'" in Studies in Black Literature  2, 2, Summer 1971. (Reissued in
Perspectives on Ayi Kwei Armah ed. Derek Wright;Three Continents Press;
Washington, 1991.

"Traditional Practices and Contemporary Concerns in the Plays of Wole
Soyinka" in Individual and Community in Commonwealth Literature.  Ed. 
Daniel Massa: Univ. of Malta, Msida,1979. 

"Chinua Achebe When Did You Last See Your Father?" World Literature
Written in English 27, 1, Spring 1987

"Of Marx and Missionaries: Soyinka and the Survival of Universalism in
Post-colonial Literary Theory" (with David Moody) in H.Tiffin and S.Slemon
(eds.) After Europe: Post-colonial Literary Theory; Dangaroo Press;
Aarhus,1989.

"Radical Messages: Content, Form and Agency in the Drama of Femi Osofisan"
Essays in Theatre/ Etudes Theatrales 14, 1, Nov. 1995, 15-25.

"Obi Egbuna"&"Femi Osofisan" : biographical-critical essays in African
Writers ed. C.B.Cox,; Scribners; New York, 1997, Vol 1 pp. 209-221 (double
column), Vol 2. 619-629

"Documentation and Communication in Post-colonial Societies: the Politics
of Control", Year's Work in English Studies 1996 (ed. Andrew Gurr) pp. 21-37.

"Writing, Literacy and History in Africa" in Writing in Africa. Ed.
Mphalevi Hangson Msiska and Paul Hyland; Longmans, London, 1997.

Our Work/Their Culture: Critical Theory and Recent Cultural Constructions
of 'Africa' Keynote Paper:  Proceedings of the Assoc. of University
Teachers of English in South Africa Conference, Volume 1, University of the
Western Cape, July 1996.

Currently in press:

Entries on "African Criticism", and on "African Literature and Literary
Theory " (Essay length) in The Companion to African Literature.  Ed. G.D.
Killam, London, James Currie.

West Africa entry in the International Encyclopaedia of the Novel.

A History of African Literatures (East and West), Longmans History of
English Literatures, Longman, London.