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Author : Lokangaka Losambe
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114136588
Author : Lokangaka Losambe
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015064862793
Author : Lokangaka Losambe,Tanure Ojaide
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 591 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781040013984
The Routledge Handbook of the New African Diasporic Literature introduces world literature readers to the transnational, multivocal writings of immigrant African authors. Covering works produced in Europe, North America, and elsewhere in the world, this book investigates three major aesthetic paradigms in African diasporic literature: the Sankofan wave (late 1960s–early 1990s); the Janusian wave (1990s–2020s); and the Offshoots of the New Arrivants (those born and growing up outside Africa). Written by well-established and emerging scholars of African and diasporic literatures from across the world, the chapters in the book cover the works of well-known and not-so-well-known Anglophone, Francophone, and Lusophone writers from different theoretical positionalities and critical approaches, pointing out the unique innovative artistic qualities of this major subgenre of African literature. The focus on the “diasporic consciousness” of the writers and their works sets this handbook apart from others that solely emphasize migration, which is more of a process than the community of settled African people involved in the dynamic acts of living reflected in diasporic writings. This book will appeal to researchers and students from across the fields of Literature, Diaspora Studies, African Studies, Migration Studies, and Postcolonial Studies.
Author : Olakunle George
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781119058175
Rediscover the diversity of modern African literatures with this authoritative resource edited by a leader in the field How have African literatures unfolded in their rich diversity in our modern era of decolonization, nationalisms, and extensive transnational movement of peoples? How have African writers engaged urgent questions regarding race, nation, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality? And how do African literary genres interrelate with traditional oral forms or audio-visual and digital media? A Companion to African Literatures addresses these issues and many more. Consisting of essays by distinguished scholars and emerging leaders in the field, this book offers rigorous, deeply engaging discussions of African literatures on the continent and in diaspora. It covers the four main geographical regions (East and Central Africa, North Africa, Southern Africa, and West Africa), presenting ample material to learn from and think with. A Companion To African Literatures is divided into five parts. The first four cover different regions of the continent, while the fifth part considers conceptual issues and newer directions of inquiry. Chapters focus on literatures in European languages officially used in Africa -- English, French, and Portuguese -- as well as homegrown African languages: Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Swahili, and Yoruba. With its lineup of lucid and authoritative analyses, readers will find in A Companion to African Literatures a distinctive, rewarding academic resource. Perfect for undergraduate and graduate students in literary studies programs with an African focus, A Companion to African Literatures will also earn a place in the libraries of teachers, researchers, and professors who wish to strengthen their background in the study of African literatures.
Author : Lokangaka Losambe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000532906
This book chronicles the rise and the development of postcolonial agency since Africa’s encounter with Western modernity through African and African diaspora literature and film. Using African and African diasporic imaginaries (creative writings, autobiographies, polemical writings, and filmic media), the author shows how African subjects have resisted enslavement and colonial domination over the past centuries, and how they have sought to reshape "global modernity". Authors and film makers whose works are examined in detail include Olaudah Equiano, Haile Gerima, Amma Asante, George Washington Williams, William Sheppard, Wole Soyinka, Dani Kouyaté, Chris Abani, Chimamanda Adichie, and Leila Aboulela. Providing a critical study of nativism, hybridity and post-hybrid conjunctive consciousness, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of African and African diasporic literature, history, and cultural studies.
Author : Flora Veit-Wild
Publisher : James Currey (GB)
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : African literature
ISBN : UCSC:32106019161436
Author : Philip Zapkin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-20
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781000431346
Hellenic Common argues that theatrical adaptations of Greek tragedy exemplify the functioning of a cosmopolitan cultural commonwealth. Analyzing plays by Femi Osofisan, Moira Buffini, Marina Carr, Colin Teevan, and Yael Farber, this book shows how contemporary adapters draw tragic and mythic material from a cultural common and remake those stories for modern audiences. Phillip Zapkin theorizes a political economy of adaptation, combining both a formal reading of adaptation as an aesthetic practice and a political reading of adaptation as a form of resistance. Drawing an ethical centre from Kwame Anthony Appiah’s work on cosmopolitanism and Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s theory of the common, Hellenic Common argues that Attic tragedy forms a cultural commonwealth from which dramatists the world over can rework, reimagine, and restage materials to envision aspirational new worlds through the arts. This study will be of great interest to students and scholars of drama, adaptation studies, literature, and neoliberalism.
Author : B. Nyamnjoh
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789956764181
This book questions colonial and apartheid ideologies on being human and being African, ideologies that continue to shape how research is conceptualised, taught and practiced in universities across Africa. Africans immersed in popular traditions of meaning-making are denied the right, by those who police the borders of knowledge, to think and represent their realities in accordance with the civilisations and universes they know best. Often, the ways of life they cherish are labelled and dismissed too eagerly as traditional knowledge by some of the very African intellectual elite they look to for protection. The book makes a case for sidestepped traditions of knowledge. It draws attention to Africas possibilities, prospects and emergent capacities for being and becoming in tune with its creativity and imagination. It speaks to the nimble-footed flexible-minded frontier African at the crossroads and junctions of encounters, facilitating creative conversations and challenging regressive logics of exclusionary identities. The book uses Amos Tutuolas stories to question dualistic assumptions about reality and scholarship, and to call for conviviality, interconnections and interdependence between competing knowledge traditions in Africa.
Author : Saloni Walia ,Vahitha S. ,Ciyiltepe Tan ,Trishna Devi ,Isha Biswas ,Hasan Abdul Ghani
Publisher : Saurabh Chandra, Socrates Scholarly Research Journal
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
SOCRATES SPECIAL ISSUE ON POSTCOLONIALISM“INVESTIGATING POSTCOLONIALITY AND POSTCOLONIALISM AS THE EMPIRE WRITES BACK”
Author : Lokangaka Losambe,Devi Sarinjeive
Publisher : New Africa Books
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1919876065
In this collection of essays written from different critical perspectives, African playwrights demonstrate through their art that they are not only witnesses, but also consciences, of their societies.
Author : Modern Humanities Research Association
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1224 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : English language
ISBN : SRLF:AA0000173617
Includes both books and articles.
Author : Horst Zander
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Black people
ISBN : 3823346598
Author : Chin Ce,Charles Smith
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789783703681
This study of oral tradition in African literature is borne from the awareness that African verbal arts still survive in works of discerning writers and in the conscious exploration of its tropes, perspectives, philosophy and consciousness, its complementary realism, and ontology, for the delineation of authentic African response to memory, history and other possible comparisons with modern existence such as witnessed in recent developments of the African novel. In this series we have strived to adopt innovative and multilayered perspectives on orality or indigeneity and its manifestations on contemporary African and new literatures. These studies use multi-faceted theories of orality which discuss and deconstruct notions of history, truth-claims and identity-making, not excluding gender and genealogy (cultural and biological) studies in African contexts.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015066043251
Author : David Ekanem Udoinwang,James Tar Tsaaior
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000632866
This book provides an important critical analysis of the autobiographies of nine major leaders of national liberation movements in Africa. By examining their self-narratives, we can better understand how decolonisation unfolded and how activist-politicians sought to immortalise their roles for posterity. Focusing on the autobiographies of Peter Abrahams, Albert Luthuli, Ruth First and Nelson Mandela (South Africa), Nnamdi Azikiwe (Nigeria), Kenneth Kaunda (Zambia), George Mwase (Malawi), Kwame Nkrumah (Ghana), Maurice Nyagumbo (Zimbabwe), and Oginga Odinga (Kenya), the book uncovers the social and cultural forces which galvanized the anti-colonial resistance movement in African societies. In particular, the book explores the disdain for foreign domination, economic exploitation and cultural imperialism. It delves into themes of African cultural sovereignty before the colonial encounter, the disruptive presence of colonialism, the nationalist ferment against European imperial domination, the achievement of political autonomy by African nation-states and the corpus of contradictions which attended postcolonial becoming. With important insights on how these key historical figures navigated the process of self-determining nationhood in Africa, this book will be of interest to researchers of African literature, history, and politics.
