Tracing Personal Expansion: Reading Selected Novels as Modern African Bildungsromane.(Book review)

Tracing Personal Expansion: Reading Selected Novels as Modern African Bildungsromane

BY WALTER P. COLLINS, III

Lanham, MD: UP of America, 2006.

137 pp. ISBN-13: 978-0-7618-3483-0; 10: 7618-3483-4 paper.

The critical framework for Walter P Collins's Tracing Personal Expansion: Reading Selected Novels as Modern African Bildungsromane is clearly stated in the introductory chapter. Collins sees a correlation between the Bildungsromane of eighteenth-century German writers and the works of twentieth-century African writers. In the introductory chapter, he writes that

 
   analyses of African works as Bildungsromane provide great insight …