Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies

On pages 321 to 322, a concise definition of nativism is given with much more: references to other topics in the book, an array of critics on the topic of nativism, and an overall summary of the subject in current thinking. Among the Africans are Chinua Achebe, Ama Ata Aidoo, Mongo Beti, Driss Chraïbi, Buchi Emecheta, Cheik Hamidou Kane, Cámara Laye, Naguib Mahfouz, V Y. Mudimbe, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Ferdinand Oyono, Sembene Ousmane, and WoIe Soyinka. [...] under postmodernism we find Ihab Hassan's undefined use of the terms "disjunctive, antiform, play, chance, anarchy, silence, performance, deconstruction, antithesis, absence, dispersal, misreading, antinarrative, the polymorphous, schizophrenic, difference, irony and indeterminacy" (358).