Introduction / M. G. Cooke
I. Manifesto. Negritude: literature and ideology / Abiola Irele
Roots / Ezekiel Mphahlele
Tradition and the West Indian novel / Wilson Harris
II. U. S. A. Ralph Ellison and the uses of imagination / Robert Bone
Nightmare of a native son: Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison / Jonathan Baumbach
Black Existentialism: Richard Wright / Kingsley Widmer
Fathers and sons in James Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain / Michel Fabre
III. Africa. The African personality in the African novel / Robert W. July
Chinua Achebe / Anne Tibble
The idea of assimilation: Mongo Beti and Camara Laye / Jeannette Macaulay
Camara Laye: another interpretation / Janheinz Jahn
IV. West Indies. Discovery / Gerald Moore
The ironic approach: the novels of V. S. Naipaul / Gordon Rohlehr
The fugitive in the forest: four novels by Wilson Harris / John Hearne
The road to Banana Bottom / Kenneth Ramchand.
