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An Introduction to the Literature of Equatorial Guinea: Between Colonialism and Dictatorship (review)

Falk’s study is elegantly written, meticulous in its formal aspects, and offers fresh perspectives on above all Gurnah, but also on Vera and Dabydeen. Its deployment of theory (of a postcolonial/poststructuralist inclination) is precise and appropriate, at times innovative. What I find lacking is a more thorough motivation for this particular combination of writers. Falk is careful to situate each writer in his or her respective context, but nowhere does he offer a sustained reflection on the conditions of possibility for his own critical practice. A metacritical perspective on traveling theory and literature in circulation as the enabling condition of “postcolonial studies” in Northern Europe would have added further to his work.