Albert S. Gérard

Albert Stanislaus Gérard (1920-1996) was a Belgian scholar of comparative literature, specializing in African literature. His African Language Literatures was praised by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o as a "pioneering survey of literature in African languages".

Works

 * L'idée romantique de la poésie en Angleterre. Étude sur la théorie de la poésie chez Coleridge, Wordsworth, Keats et Shelley, 1955. Translated as English romantic poetry : ethos, structure, and symbol in Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley, and Keats, 1968
 * Four African literatures: Xhosa, Sotho, Zulu, Amharic, 1971
 * (ed.) Black Africa, 1972
 * African language literatures : an introduction to the literary history of Sub-Saharan Africa, 1981
 * European-language writing in sub-Saharan Africa, 1985
 * Contexts of African literature, 1990