CONTENTS

The Child

• Jean Sévry, "Rider Haggard: A Literature for Children, or a Childish Africa?", 1
• Michael Newton, "Kipling and the Savage Child", 12
• Cynthia Abrioux, "A Slow Alienation: Nirad Chaudhuri's Bengali Childhood in The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian", 20
•  Etienne Galle, "The Probable Young African Hero", 29
• Michel Naumann, "Coetzee's Children of the Earth and Language", 36
• André Viola, "Children of Soweto: Lindiwe Mabuza's Short Story 'Wake'", 39
• Jacqueline Bardolph, "Azaro, Saleem and Askar: Brothers in Allegory", 45
• Michel Pousse, "The Chaotic World of Children in Lamming's In the Castle of My Skin and Naipaul's The Mimic Men", 52
• Thorunn Lonsdale, "The Female Child in the Fiction of Jean Rhys", 61
• Mary Condé, "Unlikely Stories: Children's Invented Worlds in Caribbean Women's Fiction", 69
• Judith Misrahi, "Geoffrey Drayton's Christopher, or the Looking Child", 76
• Héliane Ventura, "Alice Munro's 'Boys and Girls': Mapping Out Boundaries", 80

Australia

• David Coad,"Patrick White's Castrated Country", 88

Africa

• Eliane Saint-André Utudjian, "Two Nigerian Female Dramatists", 96

Reviews

• Colin Roderick, Henry Lawson: A Life, 102
• Jane Wilkinson, Talking with African Writers, 102
• Terry Sturm, ed., The Oxford History of New Zealand Literature in English, 105
• Georges-Goulven Le Cam, Mythe et stratégie identitaire chez les Maoris de Nouvelle-Zélande, 110
• Jacqueline Bardolph, Ngugi wa Tiong'o : l'homme et l'oeuvre, 112