Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : African literature (English)
ISBN : UCAL:B3739846
African Writers Series
Anonim
A Book Of African Writers
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Half of a Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Author : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307373540
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Pdf
With her award-winning debut novel, Purple Hibiscus, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was heralded by the Washington Post Book World as the “21st century daughter” of Chinua Achebe. Now, in her masterly, haunting new novel, she recreates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra’s impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in Nigeria during the 1960s. With the effortless grace of a natural storyteller, Adichie weaves together the lives of five characters caught up in the extraordinary tumult of the decade. Fifteen-year-old Ugwu is houseboy to Odenigbo, a university professor who sends him to school, and in whose living room Ugwu hears voices full of revolutionary zeal. Odenigbo’s beautiful mistress, Olanna, a sociology teacher, is running away from her parents’ world of wealth and excess; Kainene, her urbane twin, is taking over their father’s business; and Kainene’s English lover, Richard, forms a bridge between their two worlds. As we follow these intertwined lives through a military coup, the Biafran secession and the subsequent war, Adichie brilliantly evokes the promise, and intimately, the devastating disappointments that marked this time and place. Epic, ambitious and triumphantly realized, Half of a Yellow Sun is a more powerful, dramatic and intensely emotional picture of modern Africa than any we have had before.
Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe
Author : Chinua Achebe
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1994-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385474542
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Pdf
“A true classic of world literature . . . A masterpiece that has inspired generations of writers in Nigeria, across Africa, and around the world.” —Barack Obama “African literature is incomplete and unthinkable without the works of Chinua Achebe.” —Toni Morrison Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Things Fall Apart is the first of three novels in Chinua Achebe's critically acclaimed African Trilogy. It is a classic narrative about Africa's cataclysmic encounter with Europe as it establishes a colonial presence on the continent. Told through the fictional experiences of Okonkwo, a wealthy and fearless Igbo warrior of Umuofia in the late 1800s, Things Fall Apart explores one man's futile resistance to the devaluing of his Igbo traditions by British political andreligious forces and his despair as his community capitulates to the powerful new order. With more than 20 million copies sold and translated into fifty-seven languages, Things Fall Apart provides one of the most illuminating and permanent monuments to African experience. Achebe does not only capture life in a pre-colonial African village, he conveys the tragedy of the loss of that world while broadening our understanding of our contemporary realities.
Africa Writes Back
James Currey
Author : James Currey
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781847015020
Africa Writes Back by James Currey Pdf
17 June 2008 is the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart by Heinemann. This provided the impetus for the foundation of the African Writers Series in 1962 with Chinua Achebe as the Editorial Adviser.'The book is therefore not only the story of a publishing enterprise of great significance; it is also a large part of the story of African literature and its dissemination in the latter half of the twentieth century. The manuscript is full of the drama of that enterprise, the drama of dealing with the mother house, William Heinemann, of dealing with the often intractable political constraints dominating the intellectual space across Africa, and not least of all dealing with the writers themselves - with their ambitions, their temperaments, their financial needs and, at time, their perception of a colonial relationship between themselves and a European publishing house.' - Clive Wake, Emeritus Professor of Modern Languages, University of Kent at Canterbury.
Postcolonial African Writers
Siga Fatima Jagne,Pushpa Naidu Parekh
Author : Siga Fatima Jagne,Pushpa Naidu Parekh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136593970
Postcolonial African Writers by Siga Fatima Jagne,Pushpa Naidu Parekh Pdf
This reference book surveys the richness of postcolonial African literature. The volume begins with an introductory essay on postcolonial criticism and African writing, then presents alphabetically arranged profiles of some 60 writers, including Chinua Achebe, Nadine Gordimer, Bessie Head, Doris Lessing, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Tahbar Ben Jelloun, among others. Each entry includes a brief biography, a discussion of major works and themes that appear in the author's writings, an overview of the critical response to the author's work, and a bibliography of primary and secondary sources. These profiles are written by expert contributors and reflect many different perspectives. The volume concludes with a selected general bibliography of the most important critical works on postcolonial African literature.
The Heinemann Book of African Poetry in English
Adewale Maja-Pearce
Author : Adewale Maja-Pearce
Publisher : Heinemann International Incorporated
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Humor
ISBN : UOM:39015021862910
The Heinemann Book of African Poetry in English by Adewale Maja-Pearce Pdf
This anthology represents some of the best African poetry written in English in the last 30 years. The poets include Wole Soyinka, Dennis Brutus, Kojo Laing, Chenjerai Hove and Gabriel Gbadamosi.
Purple Hibiscus
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Author : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007383696
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Pdf
The limits of fifteen-year-old Kambili’s world are defined by the high walls of her family estate and the dictates of her fanatically religious father. Her life is regulated by schedules: prayer, sleep, study, prayer.
African Writers on African Writing
G. D. Killam
Author : G. D. Killam
Publisher : London : Heinemann
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015046360791
African Writers on African Writing by G. D. Killam Pdf
The essays, articles and interviews in this book offer a selection of views on African writing by African writers, such as Chinua Achebe, J.P. Clark, Gabriel Okara, Lewis Nkosi, James Ngugi, Okello Oculi, Ali A. Mazrui, Sembène Ousmane, Nadine Gordimer and Joe Kariuki. They form landmarks on the road towards the establishment of a cxritical assessment of modern African writing. The essays reveal three concers. Firstly a concern with the social and political function of literature. Then there is the debate on relationship between African literature and the traditions of English and French literature. Finally the writers are anxious to establish the uniquely African quality of African literature and the African society that literature reflects.
The Ordeal of the African Writer
Charles Larson
Author : Charles Larson
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2001-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39076002206154
The Ordeal of the African Writer by Charles Larson Pdf
This book demonstrates how only a small number of African writers--like Chinua Achebe, Ben Okri, Nuruddin Farah, and Wole Soyinka--have become known outside of their own continent. It also details the enormous obstacles they face within Africa to get their work published, let alone to support themselves financially from their writing. Charles R. Larson combines writers' own testimony, pen portraits of their lives, and factual investigation to explore the full dimensions of this problem.
Africa Writes Back to Self
Evan M. Mwangi
Author : Evan M. Mwangi
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438426976
Africa Writes Back to Self by Evan M. Mwangi Pdf
The profound effects of colonialism and its legacies on African cultures have led postcolonial scholars of recent African literature to characterize contemporary African novels as, first and foremost, responses to colonial domination by the West. In Africa Writes Back to Self, Evan Maina Mwangi argues instead that the novels are primarily engaged in conversation with each other, particularly over emergent gender issues such as the representation of homosexuality and the disenfranchisement of women by male-dominated governments. He covers the work of canonical novelists Nadine Gordimer, Chinua Achebe, NguÅgiÅ wa Thiong'o, and J. M. Coetzee, as well as popular writers such as Grace Ogot, David Maillu, Promise Okekwe, and Rebeka Njau. Mwangi examines the novels' self-reflexive fictional strategies and their potential to refigure the dynamics of gender and sexuality in Africa and demote the West as the reference point for cultures of the Global South.
A Book of African Writers
Dr. Badal W. Kariye
Author : Dr. Badal W. Kariye
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781312268098
A Book of African Writers by Dr. Badal W. Kariye Pdf
Queer Africa 2: New Stories
Makhosazana Xaba,Karen Martin
Author : Makhosazana Xaba,Karen Martin
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-08
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780620924481
Queer Africa 2: New Stories by Makhosazana Xaba,Karen Martin Pdf
In Queer Africa 2: New Stories, the 26 stories by writers from Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Uganda and the USA present exciting and varied narratives on life. There are stories on desire, disruption and dreams; others on longing, lust and love. The stories are representative of the range of human emotions and experiences that abound in the lives of Africans and those of the diaspora, who identify variously along the long and fluid line of the sexuality, gender and sexual orientation spectrum in the African continent. Centred in these stories and in their attendant relationships is humanity. The writers showcase their artistry in storytelling in thought-provoking and delightful ways.
Conversations with African Writers
Lee Nichols
Author : Lee Nichols
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : African literature (English)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039270124
Conversations with African Writers by Lee Nichols Pdf
"This book is composed of transcriptions of radio interviews conducted by the Voice of America with African authors from 1974-1978. A total of 78 interviews were broadcast in the series from 1975-1979. .. The series itself was organized by VOA African Division Special Projects Officer Lee Nichols ... The programs were produced by the Production Branch of the VOA African Division"--Page v.
A Handbook for African Writers
James Gibbs
Author : James Gibbs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Authors and publishers
ISBN : STANFORD:36105081766300
A Handbook for African Writers by James Gibbs Pdf
African Literature
Jonathan P. Smithe
Author : Jonathan P. Smithe
Publisher : Nova Publishers
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Africa
ISBN : 1590332903
African Literature by Jonathan P. Smithe Pdf
African literature, like the continent itself is enormous and diverse. East Africa's literature is different from West Africa's which is quite different from South Africa's which has different influences on it than North Africa's. Africa's literature is based on a widespread heritage of oral literature, some of which has now been recorded. Arabic influence can be detected as well as European, especially French and English. Legends, myths, proverbs, riddles and folktales form the mother load of the oral literature. This book presents an overview of African literature as well as a comprehensive bibliography, primarily of English language sources. Accessed by subject, author and title indexes.