Over the last decade, post-colonial studies has become a defining feature in critical thought, but until very recently attention has been focused on areas other than Africa and its wealth of literature. This text represents an important shift of focus. African studies will certainly be setting the agenda in the future. Framed by the idea of mother in African literature - in its many forms such as motherland, mothertongue, motherwit, motherhood and mothering - this volume looks at its paradoxical location as both central and marginal. This study challenges the tools of analysis: whether, for...