Albert S. Gérard
Albert Stanislaus Gérard 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, 1968Four African literatures: Xhosa, Sotho, Zulu, Amharic, 1971Black Africa, 1972African language literatures : an introduction to the literary history of Sub-Saharan Africa, 1981European-language writing in sub-Saharan Africa, 1985Contexts of African literature, 1990