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Author : Bruce King,Kolawole Ogungbesan
Publisher : Zaria, [Nigeria] : Ahmadu Bello University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : African literature
ISBN : UOM:39015000584998
Author : Bruce King,Kolawole Ogungbesan
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002566938
Author : Charles Smith,Gloria Monica T. Emezue
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : African literature
ISBN : 9783503561
It is most apparent that this critical volume on new writings is not just intended to encapsulate the proud zest of Pan African idealism and black racial legacy: Its anchor on individual concerns within an all-inclusivist continental heritage is rather the core of its historical relevance. --Book Jacket.
Author : Smith, Charles,Emezue, GMT
Publisher : Handel Books
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-07
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9789783703636
NEW BLACK AND AFRICAN WRITING Vol. 2 is our concluding edition of a series that has featured many critical entries and reviews on canonical African fiction, poetry, drama and non-fiction. This second edition explores intricacies of relationships and associations, the recurrent tropes for the interpretation and understanding of historical connections, and the shaping of thought brought into fictional and cultural renditions that are evolving and continually reassessed although around the periphery of older canons. The quest for a meaningful heuristic for approaching contemporary arts is almost totally redefined by the contributions of eminent scholars of our time whose balancing and correspondence create room for complementarity of values and toward cultural understanding and value appreciation in contemporary society.
Author : Gerald Moore
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781040021484
Originally published in 1980, this book introduces the student to twelve of the most exciting and significant African authors of the 20th Century, whose work represents Anglophone and Francophone writing (with translation) drawn from West, East and Southern Africa. Twelve African Writers was a revised, updated and extended edition of the pioneering Seven African Writers which did so much to make students aware of African literature. The book also contains an extensive bibliography of the works not just of the selected writers, but other important African authors and recommendations of further critical works.
Author : Jonathan P. Smithe
Publisher : Nova Publishers
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1590332903
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.
Author : Horst Zander
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Black people
ISBN : 3823346598
Author : David Olusegun Agbaje, Ph.D
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781398428720
What is literature? What is poetry? How do poets committed to the idea of using poetry as a weapon of socio-cultural and political struggle manage to impress their works in the minds and memories of men long after the struggle has been fought and won or lost? What will a new generation of poets write about after the explosive social contradictions that inspired older poets have been resolved? Why do the themes and styles of poets in transitional societies change along with human fortunes and circumstances? This book provides answers to these questions and more... using the poetic heritage of South Africa. It is a compelling pedagogic work, a must-read for every student, researcher and teacher of African poetry, and a collector’s item for the general public.
Author : Bernth Lindfors
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Authors, African
ISBN : 1592218415
'Early Black South African Writing in English.' Bernth Lindfors examines a pioneering generation of South African writers, featuring literature written in English and English in translation, focusing mainly on literature produced in the first decades of the apartheid era - adding a poignant aspect to the context of this work. Representative works form before and after that period are also considered, especially those that made an impact nationally or internationally.
Author : Albert S. Gérard
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 1296 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789027274687
The first major comparative study of African writing in western languages, European-language Writing in Sub-Saharan Africa, edited by Albert S. Gérard, falls into four wide-ranging sections: an overview of early contacts and colonial developments “Under Western Eyes”; chapters on “Black Consciousness” manifest in the debates over Panafricanism and Negritude; a group of essays on mental decolonization expressed in “Black Power” texts at the time of independence struggles; and finally “Comparative Vistas,” sketching directions that future comparative study might explore. An introductory essay stresses the millennia of writing in Africa, side by side with a richly eloquent and artistic set of vernacular oral traditions; written and oral traditions have become interwoven in adaptations of imported forms and linguistic innovations that challenge traditional “high” literary norms. Gérard uses the mathematical concept of “fuzzy sets” to explain why the focus on “Black Africa” has led him to set aside for future analysis the literatures produced in North Africa, which fall under the influence of Muslim civilization, as well as the diasporic literatures of the New World. Over sixty scholars from twenty-two countries contribute specialized studies of creative writing by leading authors in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries such as Achebe, Mphahlele, Ngugi, Senghor, Soyinka, and Tutuola. Critical analyses are organized primarily around regions, reflecting different colonial languages imposed through schools and other social institutions. Some authors trace the adaptation of western genres, others identify syncretism with folktales or myths. The volumes are attentive to the heterogeneity of national literatures addressed to polyethnic and multilingual populations, and they note the instrumental politics of language in newly independent states. A closing chapter, “Tasks Ahead,” identifies areas for future scholars to explore.
Author : James Tar Tsaaior
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443853828
This book essentially negotiates African literature as a veritable site of artistic and cultural production and situates it within the dynamic of postcolonial cultural politics. It critically evaluates African literature as a contour of cultural contestation with the imperial politics of knowledge production about others and as an ideological strategy for knowing them. The book’s main contribution to the critical discourse on African literature and culture inheres in the fact that politics constitutes the enduring concern of society as it re/shapes and over-determines discourses which have continued to remain crucial to societal engineering. It, however, imagines the discursive existence as necessary for the evolving of a dynamic African literary tradition with an abiding fidelity to the verities of history. The book is useful for literary scholars, historians, critics, experts and students of postcolonial/cultural studies as well as general readership interested in African studies.
Author : Ode Ogede
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780739164464
Intellectual exchange among African creative writers is the subject of this highly innovative and wide-ranging look at several forms of intertextuality on the continent. Focusing on the issue of the availability of old canonical texts of African literature as a creative resource, this study throws light on how African authors adapt, reinterpret, and redeploy existing texts in the formulation of new ones. Contemporary African writers are taking advantage of and extending the resources available in the existing native literary tradition. But the field of inter-ethnic/trans-national African literary inter-textual studies is a novel one in itself as the theme of African writers' debt to Euro-American authors has been the critical commonplace in African literature. Detailing the echoes and reverberations the voices of the past have generated, and the distinctive uses to which the writers are putting one another's works, the book demonstrates that the influence of local stock is significant: it is pervasive andwidespread, and manifests itself in ways both random and systematic, but it is a ubiquitous presence in the African literary imagination.
Author : Mary Stella Chika Okolo
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781848136045
The politics of development in Africa have always been central concerns of the continent's literature. Yet ideas about the best way to achieve this development, and even what development itself should look like, have been hotly contested. African Literature as Political Philosophy looks in particular at Achebe's Anthills of the Savannah and Petals of Blood by Ngugi wa Thiong'o, but situates these within the broader context of developments in African literature over the past half-century, discussing writers from Ayi Kwei Armah to Wole Soyinka. M.S.C. Okolo provides a thorough analysis of the authors' differing approaches and how these emerge from the literature. She shows the roots of Achebe's reformism and Ngugi's insistence on revolution and how these positions take shape in their work. Okolo argues that these authors have been profoundly affected by the political situation of Africa, but have also helped to create a new African political philosophy.
Author : Annie Gagiano
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0894108875
Concentrating on issues of power and change, this analysis of texts by Chinua Achbe, Bessie Head and Dambudzi Marechera teases out each author's view of how colonialism affected Africa, the contributions of Africans to their malaise, and how many reacted in creative, progressive, pragmatic ways.
Author : Charles Smith,GMT Emezue
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-08
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9789783703643
NEW BLACK AND AFRICAN WRITING Vol. 2 is our concluding edition of a series that has featured many critical entries and reviews on canonical African fiction, poetry, drama and non-fiction. This second edition explores intricacies of relationships and associations, the recurrent tropes for the interpretation and understanding of historical connections, and the shaping of thought brought into fictional and cultural renditions that are evolving and continually reassessed although around the periphery of older canons. The quest for a meaningful heuristic for approaching contemporary arts is almost totally redefined by the contributions of eminent scholars of our time whose balancing and correspondence create room for complementarity of values and toward cultural understanding and value appreciation in contemporary society.
