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Childhood in Contemporary Diasporic African Literature

Christopher E. W. Ouma
Childhood in Contemporary Diasporic African Literature Book PDF

Author : Christopher E. W. Ouma
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030362560

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Childhood in Contemporary Diasporic African Literature by Christopher E. W. Ouma Pdf

This book examines the representation of figures, memories and images of childhood in selected contemporary diasporic African fiction by Adichie, Abani, Wainaina and Oyeyemi. The book argues that childhood is a key framework for thinking about contemporary African and African Diasporic identities. It argues that through the privileging of childhood memory, alternative conceptions of time emerge in this literature, and which allow African writers to re-imagine what family, ethnicity, nation means within the new spaces of diaspora that a majority of them occupy. The book therefore looks at the connections between childhood, space, time and memory, childhood gender and sexuality, childhoods in contexts of war, as well as migrant childhoods. These dimensions of childhood particularly relate to the return of the memory of Biafra, the figures of child soldiers, memories of growing up in Cold War Africa, queer boyhoods/sonhood as well as experiences of migration within Africa, North America and Europe.

Childhood in African Literature

Eldred D. Jones,Marjorie Jones
Childhood in African Literature Book PDF

Author : Eldred D. Jones,Marjorie Jones
Publisher : Africa World Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0865436738

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Childhood in African Literature by Eldred D. Jones,Marjorie Jones Pdf

"African authors have consistently returned to childhood to find their personal as well as their racial roots. Far from being merely nostalgic yearnings for a lost paradise, many of the treatments of childhood as shown in articles in this issue have exposed a grim reality of cruelty, harshness, parental (particularly paternal) egocentrism and extraordinary bruisings of the vulnerable child psyche. Camara Laye may have portrayed a paradise state but Yvonne Vera has treated one of the cruelest features of childhood anywhere. African authors generally have been sternly responsible in their portrayal of childhood." -- Publisher's description

Representing Africa in Children's Literature

Vivian Yenika-Agbaw
Representing Africa in Children s Literature Book PDF

Author : Vivian Yenika-Agbaw
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135923679

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Representing Africa in Children's Literature by Vivian Yenika-Agbaw Pdf

Representing Africa in Children’s Literature explores how African and Western authors portray youth in contemporary African societies, critically examining the dominant images of Africa and Africans in books published between 1960 and 2005. The book focuses on contemporary children’s and young adult literature set in Africa, examining issues regarding colonialism, the politics of representation, and the challenges posed to both "insiders" and "outsiders" writing about Africa for children.

The Routledge Handbook of the New African Diasporic Literature

Lokangaka Losambe,Tanure Ojaide
The Routledge Handbook of the New African Diasporic Literature Book PDF

Author : Lokangaka Losambe,Tanure Ojaide
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 591 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781040013984

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The Routledge Handbook of the New African Diasporic Literature by Lokangaka Losambe,Tanure Ojaide Pdf

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.

Complicity and Responsibility in Contemporary African Writing

Minna Johanna Niemi
Complicity and Responsibility in Contemporary African Writing Book PDF

Author : Minna Johanna Niemi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429639272

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Complicity and Responsibility in Contemporary African Writing by Minna Johanna Niemi Pdf

This book investigates the many ways in which contemporary African fiction has reflected on themes of responsibility and complicity during the postcolonial period. Covering the authors Ayi Kwei Armah, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nuruddin Farah, Michiel Heyns, and J. M. Coetzee, the book places each writer’s novels in their cultural and literary context in order to investigate similarities and differences between fictional approaches to individual complicity in politically unstable situations. In doing so, the study focuses on these texts’ representations of discomforting experiences of being implicated in harm done to others in order to show that it is precisely during times of political crisis that questions of moral responsibility and implicatedness in compromised conduct become more pronounced. The study also challenges longstanding western amnesia concerning responsibility for historical and present-day violence in African countries and juxtaposes this denial of responsibility with the western literary readership’s consumption of narratives of African “suffering.” The study instead proposes new reading habits based on an awareness of readerly complicity and responsibility. Drawing insights from across political philosophy and literary theory, this book will be of interest to researchers of African literature, postcolonial studies, and peace and conflict studies.

Children and Youth in African History

SE Duff
Children and Youth in African History Book PDF

Author : SE Duff
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9783031110979

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Children and Youth in African History by SE Duff Pdf

This textbook introduces readers to the academic scholarship on the history of childhood and youth in sub-Saharan Africa, with a particular focus on the colonial and postcolonial eras. In a series of seven chapters, it addresses key themes in the historical scholarship, arguing that age serves as a useful category for historical analysis in African history. Just as race, class, and gender can be used to understand how African societies have been structured over time, so too age is a powerful tool for thinking about how power, youth, and seniority intersect and change over time. This is, then, a work of synthesis rather than of new research based on primary sources. This book will therefore introduce mainstream scholars of the history of childhood and youth to the literature on Africa, and scholars of youth in Africa to debates within the wider field of the history of children and youth.

New Perspectives on African Childhood

De-Valera NYM Botchway,Awo Sarpong,Charles Quist-Adade
New Perspectives on African Childhood Book PDF

Author : De-Valera NYM Botchway,Awo Sarpong,Charles Quist-Adade
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781622735877

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New Perspectives on African Childhood by De-Valera NYM Botchway,Awo Sarpong,Charles Quist-Adade Pdf

What does it mean to be a child in Africa? In the detached Western media, narratives of penury, wickedness and death have dominated portrayals of African childhood. The hegemonic lens of the West has failed to take into account the intricacies of not only what it means to be an African child in local and culturally specific contexts, but also African childhood in general. Challenging colonial discourses, this edited volume guides the reader through different comprehensions and perspectives of childhood in Africa. Using a blend of theory, empiricism and history, the contributors to this volume offer studies from a range of fields including African literature, Afro-centric psychology and sociology. Importantly, in its eclectic geographical coverage of Africa, this book unashamedly presents the good, the bad and the ugly of African childhood. The resilience, creativity, pains and triumphs of African childhood are skilfully woven together to present the myriad of lived experiences and aspirations of children from across Africa. As an important contribution to African childhood studies, this book has the potential to be used by policymakers to shape, sustain or change socio-cultural, economic and education systems that accommodate African childhood dynamics and experiences at different levels.

Representing Africa in Children's Literature

Vivian Yenika-Agbaw
Representing Africa in Children s Literature Book PDF

Author : Vivian Yenika-Agbaw
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135923662

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Representing Africa in Children's Literature by Vivian Yenika-Agbaw Pdf

Representing Africa in Children’s Literature explores how African and Western authors portray youth in contemporary African societies, critically examining the dominant images of Africa and Africans in books published between 1960 and 2005. The book focuses on contemporary children’s and young adult literature set in Africa, examining issues regarding colonialism, the politics of representation, and the challenges posed to both "insiders" and "outsiders" writing about Africa for children.

Neo-Imperialism in Children's Literature About Africa

Yulisa Amadu Maddy,Donnarae MacCann
Neo Imperialism in Children s Literature About Africa Book PDF

Author : Yulisa Amadu Maddy,Donnarae MacCann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135848699

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Neo-Imperialism in Children's Literature About Africa by Yulisa Amadu Maddy,Donnarae MacCann Pdf

In the spirit of their last collaboration, Apartheid and Racism in South African Children's Literature, 1985-1995, Yulisa Amadu Maddy and Donnarae MacCann once again come together to expose the neo-imperialist overtones of contemporary children's fiction about Africa. Examining the portrayal of African social customs, religious philosophies, and political structures in fiction for young people, Maddy and MacCann reveal the Western biases that often infuse stories by well-known Western authors. In the book's introductory section, Maddy and MacCann offer historical information concerning Western notions of Africa as "primitive," and then present background information about the complexity of feminism in Africa and about the ongoing institutionalization of racism. The main body of the study contains critiques of the novels or short stories of eleven well-known writers, including Isabel Allende and Nancy Farmer--all demonstrating that children's literature continues to mis-represent conditions and social relations in Africa. The study concludes with a look at those short stories of Beverley Naidoo which bring insight and historical accuracy to South African conflicts and emerging solutions. Educators, literature professors, publishers, professors of Diaspora and African studies, and students of the mass media will find Maddy and MacCann’s critique of racism in the representation of Africa to be indispensible to students of multicultural literature.

Foundational African Writers

Bhekizizwe Peterson,Makhosazana Xaba,Khwezi Mkhize,Jill Bradbury,Hugo Canham,Victoria J Collis-Buthelezi,Simon Gikandi,Anne-Maria Makhulu,Athambile Masola,Innocentia J Mhlambi,Sikhumbuzo Mngadi,Thando Njovane,Obi Nwakanma,James Ogude,Christopher EW Ouma,Stéphane Robolin,Crain Soudien,Tina Steiner,Thuto Thipe,Andrea Thorpe
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Author : Bhekizizwe Peterson,Makhosazana Xaba,Khwezi Mkhize,Jill Bradbury,Hugo Canham,Victoria J Collis-Buthelezi,Simon Gikandi,Anne-Maria Makhulu,Athambile Masola,Innocentia J Mhlambi,Sikhumbuzo Mngadi,Thando Njovane,Obi Nwakanma,James Ogude,Christopher EW Ouma,Stéphane Robolin,Crain Soudien,Tina Steiner,Thuto Thipe,Andrea Thorpe
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781776147526

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Foundational African Writers by Bhekizizwe Peterson,Makhosazana Xaba,Khwezi Mkhize,Jill Bradbury,Hugo Canham,Victoria J Collis-Buthelezi,Simon Gikandi,Anne-Maria Makhulu,Athambile Masola,Innocentia J Mhlambi,Sikhumbuzo Mngadi,Thando Njovane,Obi Nwakanma,James Ogude,Christopher EW Ouma,Stéphane Robolin,Crain Soudien,Tina Steiner,Thuto Thipe,Andrea Thorpe Pdf

This collection explores the complexities of black existence, and intellectual and cultural life in the work and legacies of centenarian writers, Peter Abrahams, Noni Jabavu, Sibusiso Cyril Lincoln Nyembezi and Es’kia Mphahlele

Reading from the South

Charne Lavery,Sarah Nuttall,Sunil Amrith,Gabeba Baderoon,Karin Barber,Rimli Bhattacharya,Antoinette Burton,Pumla Dineo Gqola,Carolyn Hamilton,Khwezi Mkhize,Danai S Mupotsa,James Ogude,Madhumita Lahiri,Christopher EW Ouma,Ranka Primorac,Meg Samuelson,Lakshmi Subramanian
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Author : Charne Lavery,Sarah Nuttall,Sunil Amrith,Gabeba Baderoon,Karin Barber,Rimli Bhattacharya,Antoinette Burton,Pumla Dineo Gqola,Carolyn Hamilton,Khwezi Mkhize,Danai S Mupotsa,James Ogude,Madhumita Lahiri,Christopher EW Ouma,Ranka Primorac,Meg Samuelson,Lakshmi Subramanian
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781776148363

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Reading from the South by Charne Lavery,Sarah Nuttall,Sunil Amrith,Gabeba Baderoon,Karin Barber,Rimli Bhattacharya,Antoinette Burton,Pumla Dineo Gqola,Carolyn Hamilton,Khwezi Mkhize,Danai S Mupotsa,James Ogude,Madhumita Lahiri,Christopher EW Ouma,Ranka Primorac,Meg Samuelson,Lakshmi Subramanian Pdf

Draws together reflective and analytical essays by renowned intellectuals from around the world who critically engage with the work of one of the global South s leading scholars of African print cultures and the oceanic humanities, Isabel Hofmeyr.

(An)Archive

Mnemo ZIN,Iveta Silova,Nelli Piattoeva,Zsuzsa Millei
An Archive Book PDF

Author : Mnemo ZIN,Iveta Silova,Nelli Piattoeva,Zsuzsa Millei
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781805111887

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(An)Archive by Mnemo ZIN,Iveta Silova,Nelli Piattoeva,Zsuzsa Millei Pdf

What was it like growing up during the Cold War? What can childhood memories tell us about state socialism and its aftermath? How can these intimate memories complicate history and redefine possible futures? These questions are at the heart of the (An)Archive: Childhood, Memory, and the Cold War. This edited collection stems from a collaboration between academics and artists who came together to collectively remember their own experiences of growing up on both sides of the ‘Iron Curtain’. Looking beyond official historical archives, the book gathers memories that have been erased or forgotten, delegitimized or essentialized, or, at best, reinterpreted nostalgically within the dominant frameworks of the East-West divide. And it reassembles and (re)stores these childhood memories in a form of an ‘anarchive’: a site for merging, mixing, connecting, but also juxtaposing personal experiences, public memory, political rhetoric, places, times, and artifacts. These acts and arts of collective remembering tell about possible futures―and the past’s futures―what life during the Cold War might have been but also what it has become. (An)Archive will be of particular interest to scholars in a variety of fields, but particularly to artists, educators, historians, social scientists, and others working with memory methodologies that range from collective biography to oral history, (auto)biography, autoethnography, and archives.

Routledge Handbook of African Literature

Moradewun Adejunmobi,Carli Coetzee
Routledge Handbook of African Literature Book PDF

Author : Moradewun Adejunmobi,Carli Coetzee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351859370

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Routledge Handbook of African Literature by Moradewun Adejunmobi,Carli Coetzee Pdf

The turn of the twenty-first century has witnessed an expansion of critical approaches to African literature. The Routledge Handbook of African Literature is a one-stop publication bringing together studies of African literary texts that embody an array of newer approaches applied to a wide range of works. This includes frameworks derived from food studies, utopian studies, network theory, eco-criticism, and examinations of the human/animal interface alongside more familiar discussions of postcolonial politics. Every chapter is an original research essay written by a broad spectrum of scholars with expertise in the subject, providing an application of the most recent insights into analysis of particular topics or application of particular critical frameworks to one or more African literary works. The handbook will be a valuable interdisciplinary resource for scholars and students of African literature, African culture, postcolonial literature and literary analysis. Chapter 4 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9781138713864_oachapter4.pdf

Diaspora & Returns in Fiction

Helen Cousins,Pauline Dodgson-Katiyo,Ernest N. Emenyonu,Jane Bryce,Patricia Thornton Emenyonu,Obi Nwakanma
Diaspora Returns in Fiction Book PDF

Author : Helen Cousins,Pauline Dodgson-Katiyo,Ernest N. Emenyonu,Jane Bryce,Patricia Thornton Emenyonu,Obi Nwakanma
Publisher : James Currey is
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1847011489

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Diaspora & Returns in Fiction by Helen Cousins,Pauline Dodgson-Katiyo,Ernest N. Emenyonu,Jane Bryce,Patricia Thornton Emenyonu,Obi Nwakanma Pdf

Imagined or actual returns to a "homeland" in African literature are examined in relation to changing concepts of identity, belonging, migration and space.

Counter Discourse in African Literature

Ce, Chin,Smith, Charles
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Author : Ce, Chin,Smith, Charles
Publisher : Handel Books
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789783708563

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Counter Discourse in African Literature by Ce, Chin,Smith, Charles Pdf

This volume charts the widening frontiers of black literary aesthetics using the prose and dramatic fictions of writers from Africa and the African diaspora. The chapters come in two interactive phases of current critical discourses involving rejoinders from past-present concerns and issues of cultural and contemporary modernity. These studies stress the argument that African literature is hardly discussed outside contemporary history and that the reason for the apparent disconnection among groups in Africa and the diaspora can be traced to the disparate elements within the continent and diaspora.