Contemporary African Fiction

Author : Gaurav Desai
Publisher : Modern Language Association of America
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1603290370

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Teaching the African Novel by Gaurav Desai Pdf

What is the African novel, and how should it be taught? The twenty-three essays of this volume address these two questions and in the process convey a wealth of information and ideas about the diverse regions, peoples, nations, languages, and writers of the African continent. Topics include Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's favoring of indigenous languages and literary traditions over European; the special place of Marxism in African letters;the influence of Frantz Fanon; women writers and the sub-Saharan novel;the Maghrebian novel;the novel and the griot epic in the Sahel;Islam in the West African novel;novels in Spanish from Equatorial Guinea;apartheid and postapartheid fiction;African writers in the diaspora;globalization in East African fiction; teaching Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart to students in different countries;the Onitsha market romance. The volume editor, Gaurav Desai, writes, "The point of the volume is to encourage a reading of Africa that is sensitive to its history of colonization but at the same time responsive to its present multiracial and multicultural condition."

Author : Derek Wright
Publisher : Bayreuth African Studies
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105022822675

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Contemporary African Fiction by Derek Wright Pdf

Author : Tanure Ojaide
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : African literature
ISBN : 1611630290

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Contemporary African Literature by Tanure Ojaide Pdf

Contemporary African Literature: New Approaches comprises essays that go beyond conventional literary studies to open new vistas for critical excursion. It deals not only with purely literary issues of canonization, language, aesthetics, and scholar-poet traditions that have barely been addressed directly in recent studies but also with diverse interdisciplinary topics in literature as of migration, globalization, environmental and human rights, and gender. Written from his scholar-poet position, Tanure Ojaide's essays address pertinent issues that need to be either examined or reexamined in the current condition of Africa in the age of globalization and democratization. The collection of essays also brings literature to bear on issues that have become new concerns for writers and the general African populace. It widens the scope of the African experience in literature as never before. This book is part of the African World Series, edited by Toyin Falola, Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities, University of Texas at Austin. "This book is a worthy read, and its panoramic view will leave any reader familiar with African literature, especially in the areas of poetry and fiction, with ample cause to appreciate Tanure Ojaide's literary foresight and the merits of his scholarship." -- World Literature Today

Author : Florence Stratton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-23
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781000158779

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Contemporary African Literature and the Politics of Gender by Florence Stratton Pdf

The influence of colonialism and race on the development of African literature has been the subject of a number of studies. The effect of patriarchy and gender, however, and indeed the contributions of African women, have up until now been largely ignored by the critics. Contemporary African Literature and the Politics of Gender is the first extensive account of African literature from a feminist perspective. In this first radical and exciting work Florence Stratton outlines the features of an emerging female tradition in African fiction. A chapter is dedicated to each to the works of four women writers: Grace Ogot, Flora Nwapa, Buchi Emecheta and Mariama Ba. In addition she provides challenging new readings of canonical male authors such as Chinua Achebe, Ngugi wa Thiongo'o and Wole Soyinka. Contemporary African Literature and the Politics of Gender thus provides the first truly comprehensive definition of the current literary tradition in Africa.

Author : Reuben Makayiko Chirambo,J. K. S. Makokha
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9789401209373

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Reading Contemporary African Literature by Reuben Makayiko Chirambo,J. K. S. Makokha Pdf

Reading Contemporary African Literature brings together scholarship on, critical debates about, and examples of reading African literature in all genres – poetry, fiction, and drama including popular culture. The anthology offers studies of African literature from interdisciplinary perspectives that employ sociological, historical, and ethnographic besides literary analysis of the literatures. It has assembled critical and researched essays on a range of topics, theoretical and empirical, by renowned critics and theorists of African literature that evaluate and provide examples of reading African literature that should be of interest to academics, researchers, and students of African literature, culture, and history amongst other subjects. Some of the essays examine authors that have received little or no attention to date in books on recent African literature. These essays provide new insights and scholarship that should broaden and deepen our understanding and appreciation of African literature.

Author : G. Gulam Tariq
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : African fiction
ISBN : IND:30000109949374

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Contemporary African Novel by G. Gulam Tariq Pdf

Study on the novels of T.M. Aluko and Cyprian Ekwensi, and to some extent the novels of Chinua Achebe and Soyinka as part of the comparative framework.

Author : Christopher E. W. Ouma
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 49,9 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.

Author : M. Krishnan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137378330

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Contemporary African Literature in English by M. Krishnan Pdf

Contemporary African Literature in English explores the contours of representation in contemporary Anglophone African literature, drawing on a wide range of authors including Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Aminatta Forna, Brian Chikwava, Ngug? wa Thiong'o, Nuruddin Farah and Chris Abani.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:84469308

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Contemporary African literature by Anonim Pdf

Author : Chinua Achebe,Catherine Lynette Innes
Publisher : Heinemann
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Africa
ISBN : 043590566X

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The Heinemann Book of Contemporary African Short Stories by Chinua Achebe,Catherine Lynette Innes Pdf

A collection of 20 stories written between 1980-1991 which deal with themes relevant to various regions of Africa.

Author : Ernest Emenyo̲nu,Patricia Thornton Emenyonu,F. D. Imbuga
Publisher : James Currey Publishers
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : African literature
ISBN : 9780852555705

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New Directions in African Literature by Ernest Emenyo̲nu,Patricia Thornton Emenyonu,F. D. Imbuga Pdf

Contributors to this volume ask what are the new directions of African literature? What should be the major concerns of writers, critics and teachers in the twenty-first century? What are the accomplishments and legacies? What gaps remain to be filled, and what challenges are there to be addressed by publishers and the book industry? What are the implications for pedagogy in the new technological era? ERNEST EMENYONU is Professor of the Department of Africana Studies University of Michigan-Flint. North America: Africa World Press; Nigeria: HEBN

Author : Chin Ce,Charles Smith
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789783703681

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Oral Tradition in African Literature by Chin Ce,Charles Smith Pdf

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 : Gloria Chineze Chukukere
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015040338876

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Gender Voices and Choices by Gloria Chineze Chukukere Pdf

Why do we preserve certain landscapes while developing others without restraint? Drew A. Swanson's in-depth look at Wormsloe plantation, located on the salt marshes outside of Savannah, Georgia, explores that question while revealing the broad historical forces that have shaped the lowcountry South. Wormsloe is one of the most historic and ecologically significant stretches of the Georgia coast. It has remained in the hands of one family from 1736, when Georgia's Trustees granted it to Noble Jones, through the 1970s, when much of Wormsloe was ceded to Georgia for the creation of a state historic site. It has served as a guard post against aggression from Spanish Florida; a node in an emerging cotton economy connected to far-flung places like Lancashire and India; a retreat for pleasure and leisure; and a carefully maintained historic site and green space. Like many lowcountry places, Wormsloe is inextricably tied to regional, national, and global environments and is the product of transatlantic exchanges. Swanson argues that while visitors to Wormsloe value what they perceive to be an "authentic," undisturbed place, this landscape is actually the product of aggressive management over generations. He also finds that Wormsloe is an ideal place to get at hidden stories, such as African American environmental and agricultural knowledge, conceptions of health and disease, the relationship between manual labor and views of nature, and the ties between historic preservation and natural resource conservation. Remaking Wormsloe Plantation connects this distinct Georgia place to the broader world, adding depth and nuance to the understanding of our own conceptions of nature and history.

Author : Shatto Arthur Gakwandi
Publisher : Africana Pub.
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : African fiction (English)
ISBN : UCSC:32106002041983

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The Novel and Contemporary Experience in Africa by Shatto Arthur Gakwandi Pdf

Author : Mineke Schipper
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1999-08-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780304704798

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Imagining Insiders by Mineke Schipper Pdf

Challenges common views of how Africans and African Americans approach race, Western civilization, and their influences