Jeanne-Marie Jackson is assistant professor of English at Johns Hopkins University and the author of South African Literature's Russian Soul.
"""Honorable Mention for the Book of the Year Award, African Literature Association"" ""Jackson raises essential questions for a field yet to appreciate fully the extent to which African literature contributes to and problematizes disciplinary debates. . . . The African Novel of Ideas provides excellent navigation across an impressive and conceptually challenging range of material.""---Joseph Hankinson, Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation ""The African Novel of Ideas, which draws impressively on literature from all Anglophone regions of sub-Saharan Africa, is an important study not only for those of us who think with African literature but also for those who are invested in a more thoughtful comparative method.""---Yuan-Chih (Sreddy) Yen, Research in African Literatures ""The African Novel of Ideas gives us a historiographical exposition of how the intellectual landscape of pre- and post-independence Akan literature is determined by a struggle of competing philosophical principles rather than by a clearly delineated dichotomy of colonialist dialectics.""---Benjamin Kreitz, Theoria"