Ezekiel Mphahlele: An Overview

• Biographical Materials
• Works
• Literary Relations
  • Influences and Discoveries: Dickens, of Gorky, Chekhov, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wright
• Artistic Relations

Social and Political Contexts

• The Cultural Context
• Religion and Philosophy
  • Gender Matters

Theme and Technique

• Themes
  • Political attitudes
• Characterization
• Imagery, Symbolism, and Motif
• Structure
• Narration and Point of View
• Setting
• Genre and Mode
  • Autobiography
  • The Fundamental Problems of Autobiography
  • Ezekiel Mphahlele's Afrika My Music as Autobiography -- Fact, Fiction, or Both?
  • The Scope of Autobiography in Ezekiel Mphahlele's Afrika My Music

Last modied May 2000