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Gordon Douglas Killam (1930-2020), known to friends as Doug Killam, was a Canadian scholar of
African literature.
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Life
Killam was born on August 26, 1930, the son of Harry and Margaret Killam of
British Columbia. After working as a producer with
CBC Television, he gained a PhD from
University College London in 1964 and moved into academia. He travelled and taught in Africa, in
Sierra Leone,
Nigeria and
Tanzania. He also taught at Canadian Universities, including
UBC, the
University of Alberta and
University of Acadia. At the
University of York he was the Foujnding Master of
Bethune College. At the
University of Guelph he made the Department of English a recognised centre of
post-colonial studies.
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Predeceased by his wife Shelagh (née Anderson) in 1996, Killam died on November 17, 2020, of
Parkinson's disease.
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Works
- Africa in English fiction, 1874-1939. Ibadan: Ibadan University Press, 1968.
- The novels of Chinua Achebe. New York: Africana Pub. Corp., 1969.
- (ed.) African writers on African writing. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1972.
- An introduction to the writings of Ngugi. London: Heinemann Educational, 1980.
- The writing of East and Central Africa. London: Heinemann, 1984.
- Critical perspectives on Ngugi wa Thiong'o. Washington: Three Continents Press, 1984.
- (ed. with Ruth Riwe) The companion to African literatures. Indiana University Press, 1999.
- Literature of Africa. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2004.
- (ed. with Alicia L. Kerfoot) Student encyclopedia of African literature. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2007.
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