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ALT 13 Recent Trends in the Novel: African Literature TodayA review\nAuthor(s): Eldred Durosimi Jones, Eustace Palmer, Eldred Durosimi Jones\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: James Currey, United Kingdom\nImprint: James Currey\nISBN-13: 9780852555132, 978-0852555132\nSynopsis\nThe re-issue of archival volumes ALT 1 to ALT 14 makes the complete series available and provides the historical perspective of these early contributions to the literature and its criticism.\n\nFirst published in 1983, this volume looks at new developments in the African novel and also at those aspects of more established works that received less critical attention, such as writing from southern Africa, to which censorship and war restricted access. Eldred Jones in his Editorial also cites the \""searing impact of the Nigerian Civil War, on the consciousness, not just on Nigerians, but on Africans as a whole\"". There are also contributions on Nigerian populist Kole Omotoso and Dambudzo Marechera's prize-winning Hou.