The Emergence of African Fiction

The Emergence of African Fiction

Front cover, 1972 edition
Author	Charles R. Larson
Language	English
Subject	African literature
Published	1972, rev. ed. 1978
Publisher	Indiana UP/Macmillan
Publication place	United States

The Emergence of African Fiction is a 1972 academic monograph by American scholar Charles R. Larson. It was published initially by Indiana University Press, and again, in a slightly revised edition, in 1978 by Macmillan. Larson's study has elicited very different responses: it was praised (both at the time of publication, and half a century after) as an early and important book in the study and appreciation of African literature in the West, but for others it remained stuck in a Eurocentric, even colonizing mode in which Western aesthetics were still the unspoken standard for artistic assessment.