Since I am bearly able to follow the ins and outs of postmodern
literary interpretation, I beg your indulgence. Isn't there a, or
some, schools of AFRICAN self-understanding (Pan-African, Negritude,
African Socialist) which exist already and have using "domestic"
modes and categories of understanding? Perhaps these schools are
just as European at base (or responses to European categories) and
are passe, but has nothing or no one grown to fill the gap?
I have seen all too many externally imposed systems of analysis in
Latin American studies (capitalist to Marxist to...) without more
than a nod to how Latin Americans see or conceive of themselves or
their reality, though sensitive observers do exist. To narrow the
discussion, is Achebe's *Things Fall Apart* considered modern,
postmodern or African? I guess I need a signpost or two?