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Author : T. Obinkaram Echewa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 093140102X
Author : Teresa N. Washington
Publisher : Oya's Tornado
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
“Blazes a new trail in Africana literary criticism by providing an insight into the soul and spirit of Africana womanhood.” --Anthonia Kalu, The Ohio State University, author of Women, Literature, and Development in Africa This is the revised and expanded edition of Teresa N. Washington's groundbreaking book Our Mothers, Our Powers, Our Texts: Manifestations of Aje in Africana Literature. In Yoruba language and culture, Aje signifies both a phenomenal spiritual power and the human beings who exercise that power. Aje is the birthright of Africana women who are revered as the Gods of Society. While Africana men can have Aje, its owners and controllers are Africana women. Because it is an African female power, and due to its invisibility, ubiquity, and profundity, Aje is often maligned as witchcraft. However, as Teresa N. Washington reveals in Our Mothers, Our Powers, Our Texts, Aje is central to the Yoruba ethos, worldview, and cosmology. Not only is it essential to human creation and artistic creativity, but as a force of justice and retribution, Aje is vital to social harmony and balance. Washington analyzes forms, figures, and forces of Aje in the Yoruba world, in the Caribbean Islands, in Latin America, and in African America. Washington's research reveals that with the exile and enslavement of millions of Africans, Aje became a global force and an essential ally in organizing insurrections, soothing shattered souls, and reminding the dispossessed of their inherent divinity. From her in-depth exploration of Aje in Pan-African history and orature, Washington guides readers through rich analyses of the symbolic, methodological, and spiritual manifestations of Aje that are central to important works by Africana writers but are rarely elucidated by Western criticism. Our Mothers, Our Powers, Our Texts includes innovative readings of works by many Africana writers, including Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, Ben Okri, Wole Soyinka, Jamaica Kincaid, and Ntozake Shange. This revised and expanded edition of Our Mothers, Our Powers, Our Texts will appeal to scholars of Africana literature, African religion and philosophy, gender studies, and comparative literature. Devotees of Africana spiritual systems will find this book to be indispensable.
Author : Alexis Jetter,Annelise Orleck,Diana Taylor
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Motherhood
ISBN : 087451780X
Essays and interviews explode the myth of apolitical motherhood by showing how 20th century women have politicized their role as mothers in a wide range of social contexts.
Author : Margaret Jean Hay
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Africa
ISBN : 1555878784
Many teachers of African studies have found novels to be effective assignments in courses. In this guide, teachers describe their favourite African novels - drawn from all over the continent - and share their experiences of using them in the classroom.
Author : Rose N. Uchem
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781581121339
"When African scholars lament over the near destruction of African cultures, they do not reflect the reality of African women's historical traditions of empowerment and inclusion in pre-colonial/pre-Christian African societies, which were also lost in the same process of Western Christian cultural imperialism. Similarly, most male Church theologians writing or speaking about inculturation do not address the deeper cultural issues, which impact heavily on African women. ..... [from back cover]
Author : Bella Brodzki
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0804755426
Fundamentally concerned with the means by which translation ensures the afterlife of literary and cultural texts, this book examines multiple processes of translation, temporal and spatial, through acts of intercultural exchange and intergenerational transmission.
Author : Douglas Scott Nelson
Publisher : Morgan James Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781614480075
Take control of your life by becoming financially bulletproof with this no-holds-barred guide to money management. A tragic accident in 2002 nearly took Doug Nelson’s life. Caught in a horrendous gas explosion, he spent six weeks in a coma and nine months rehabilitating from his injuries. But Doug was blessed—he knew that money would not be an issue during that difficult time. He had spent several years prior to the tragedy working toward, and achieving, financial freedom. In Catch Fire, Doug shares his amazing story and provides the simple tools and knowledge that can help you to achieve the same financial peace of mind. Doug debunks numerous money myths and explains how to make money work for rather than against you. His Financial Playbook provides the offensive and defensive strategies necessary to securing your economic future and pursuing your life’s true purpose. “Financial freedom is a goal many chase after, but you won't have to chase any longer after reading this book. You will be equipped and on fire to make some serious changes in your financial life.” —T. Harv Eker, bestselling author of Secrets of the Millionaire Mind
Author : Anwesha Das
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527591493
Anchored in postcolonial theory, this book highlights the concept of “postcolonial soliloquies” as an original idea in analyzing West African literature. It uses the political theory of “dialogue” to broaden the reader’s understanding of history, culture, identity and indigenous memories. The book shows how the novels of T. Obinkaram Echewa plunge into the known territory of colonial history with new boundaries.
Author : Hari Menon
Publisher : Educreation Publishing
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
8 Murders in different parts of the country. An elite scientist along with his family is kidnapped. LAPD in dilemma. What if the only person you could trust is dishonorably discharged from the CIA?
Author : Geetha Ramanathan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780415509701
This book visits modernism within a comparative, gendered, and third-world framework, questioning current scholarly categorisations of modernism and reframing our conception of what constitutes modernist aesthetics. It describes the construction of modernist studies and argues that despite a range of interventions which suggest that philosophical and material articulations with the third world shaped modernism, an emphasis on modernist "universals" persists. Ramanathan argues that women and third-world authors have reshaped received notions of the modern and revised orthodox ideas on the modern aesthetic. Authors such as Bessie Head, Josiane Racine, T.Obinkaram Echewa, Raja Rao, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Sembene Ousmane, Salman Rushdie, Ana Castillo, Attia Hossain, Bapsi Sidhwa, and Sahar Khalifeh, are visited in their specific cultural contexts and use some form of realism, a mode that western modernism relegates to the nineteenth century. A comparative methodology and extensive research on intersecting topics such as post-coloniality and the articulation between gender and modernist aesthetics facilitates readings of the modern in twentieth century literature that fall outside standards of western modernism. Considering the relationship between aesthetics and ideology, Ramanathan lays out a critical apparatus to enhance our understanding of the modern, thus suggesting that form is not universal, but that the history of forms, like the history of colonialism and of women, indicates very specific modalities of the modern.
Author : Richard Firth Green
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2002-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0812218094
"Green's work is of the greatest importance for the understanding of a crucial period in the history of English writing and institutions, and a crucial shift in patterns of cognition."—Derek Pearsall, Harvard University
Author : Ukpokolo, Chinyere
Publisher : Spears Media Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781942876076
This book illuminates the complex and constantly shifting social and cultural dynamics that shape people's identity. Specifically, the volume focuses on the intersections of gender with, culture and identity, and at different historical epochs; on the way men and women define themselves and are defined by diverse peoples and cultures across time and space in sub-Saharan Africa. The discussions presented in this anthology primarily focus on 'being' as 'a state' or 'condition', defined by sex identity, and how this identity shifts, and hence 'becoming', assuming diverse meanings in disparate societies, contexts, and time. The discourse, therefore, moves from how the perception of the self in cultural and historical contexts has informed actions and at some other times shaped interpretations given to historical facts, to how changing economic realities also shape the definitions and constructions of social and relational issues in Sub-Saharan Africa. The historical trajectories of Islamic religion, colonialism and Christian missionary activities in sub-Saharan Africa have shaped the worlds of the peoples of the region and impacted on gender relations.
Author : Alex Preston,Neil Gower
Publisher : Corsair
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-13
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781472152251
'A magical book: an inimitable fusion of ornithology, literary anthology and autobiography.' Tom Holland When Alex Preston was 15, he stopped being a birdwatcher. Adolescence and the scorn of his peers made him put away his binoculars, leave behind the hides and the nature reserves and the quiet companionship of his fellow birders. His love of birds didn't disappear though. Rather, it went underground, and he began birdwatching in the books that he read, creating his own personal anthology of nature writing that brought the birds of his childhood back to brilliant life. Looking for moments 'when heart and bird are one', Preston weaves the very best writing about birds into a personal and eccentric narrative that is as much about the joy of reading and writing as it is about the thrill of wildlife. Moving from the 'high requiem' of Keats's nightingale to the crow-strewn sky at the end of Alan Garner's The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, from Ted Hughes's brooding 'Hawk in the Rain' to the giddy anthropomorphism of Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, this is a book that will make you look at birds, at the world, in a newer, richer light. Beautifully illustrated and illuminated by the celebrated graphic artist Neil Gower, As Kingfishers Catch Fire is a book to love and to hold, to return to again and again, to marvel at the way that authors across the centuries have captured the endless grace and variety of birds. 'A joyful and a wondrous book' the Guardian
Author : Linda Parent Lesher
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476603896
This reader’s guide provides uniquely organized and up-to-date information on the most important and enjoyable contemporary English-language novels. Offering critically substantiated reading recommendations, careful cross-referencing, and extensive indexing, this book is appropriate for both the weekend reader looking for the best new mystery and the full-time graduate student hoping to survey the latest in magical realism. More than 1,000 titles are included, each entry citing major reviews and giving a brief description for each book.
Author : Douglas Killam,Alicia L. Kerfoot
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313054518
African literature is a vast subject of growing output and interest. Written especially for students, this book selectively surveys the topic in a clear and accessible way. Included are roughly 600 alphabetically arranged entries on writers, genres, and major works. Many entries cite works for further reading, and the volume closes with a selected, general bibliography. Africa is a land of contrasts and of diverse cultures and traditions. It is also a land of conflict and creativity. The literature of the continent draws upon a fascinating body of oral traditions and lore and also reflects the political turmoil of the modern world. With the increased interest in cultural diversity and the growing centrality of Africa in world politics, African literature is figuring more and more prominently in the curriculum. This book helps students learn about the African literary achievement. Written expressly for students, this book is far more accessible than other reference works on the subject. Included are nearly 600 alphabetically arranged entries on authors, such as Chinua Achebe, Athol Fugard, Buchi Emecheta, Nadine Gordimer, and Wole Soyinka; major works, such as Things Fall Apart and Petals of Blood; and individual genres, such as the novel, drama, and poetry. Many entries cite works for further reading, and the volume closes with a selected, general bibliography.