Indigeneity Globalization And African Literature

Author : Tanure Ojaide
Publisher : Springer
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137560032

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Indigeneity, Globalization, and African Literature by Tanure Ojaide Pdf

Literature remains one of the few disciplines that reflect the experiences, sensibility, worldview, and living realities of its people. Contemporary African literature captures the African experience in history and politics in a multiplicity of ways. Politics itself has come to intersect and impact on most, if not all, aspects of the African reality. This relationship of literature with African people’s lives and condition forms the setting of this study. Tanure Ojaide’s Indigeneity, Globalization, and African Literature: Personally Speaking belongs with a well-established tradition of personal reflections on literature by African creative writer-critics. Ojaide’s contribution brings to the table the perspective of what is now recognized as a “second generation” writer, a poet, and a concerned citizen of Nigeria’s Niger Delta area.

Author : Sandra Dixon,Janice Spleth
Publisher : Red Sea Press, U.S.
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : African literature
ISBN : 1569024820

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Cultural Dynamics of Globalization and African Literature by Sandra Dixon,Janice Spleth Pdf

The 33rd Annual Conference of the African Literature Association addressed globalization from the perspective of African and African-heritage writers. The papers selected for this anthology provide a representative overview of globalization's cultural dynamics as explored by our keynote speakers and by scholars of African literature attending the conference from around the world.

Author : Akinloye Ojo,Karim Traore,Oyinlola Longe
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498534314

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Africans and Globalization by Akinloye Ojo,Karim Traore,Oyinlola Longe Pdf

This book considers some of the substance and dissatisfaction of globalization on Africa. It illustrates globalization as a complex set of processes that involve shifting influence from local societies and countries in some areas while simultaneously endowing local societies and countries with influence in other areas.

Author : Tanure Ojaide
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 1315177706

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Literature and Culture in Global Africa by Tanure Ojaide Pdf

Engaging and interrogating the idea of a 'Global Africa', this book examines how African literary and cultural productions have changed over the years due to the social and political influences brought about by increased globalisation. Tanure Ojaide takes a variety of European theoretical concepts and applies these to African literature, oral traditions, culture, sexuality, political leadership, environmentalism, and advocacy, demonstrating the universality of the African experience. Challenging African literary artists and scholars to think creatively about the future of the culture and literature, this new collection of literary and cultural criticism from scholar-writer Tanure Ojaide is an essential read for students and scholars of African literature and culture.

Author : Olakunle George
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780253029324

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African Literature and Social Change by Olakunle George Pdf

“George rethinks the entirety of African literature by considering texts from the 19th century and mid-20th century alongside canonical texts.” —Neil ten Kortenaar, author of Debt, Law, Realism Alert to the ways in which critical theory and imaginative literature can enrich each other, African Literature and Social Change reframes the ongoing project of African literature. Concentrating on texts that are not usually considered together—writings by little-known black missionaries, so called “black whitemen,” and better-known 20th century intellectuals and creative writers—Olakunle George shows the ways in which these writings have addressed notions of ethnicity, nation, and race and how the debates need to be rehistoricized today. George presents Africa as a site of complex desires and contradictions, refashioning the way African literature is positioned within current discussions of globalism, diaspora, and postcolonialism. “A bold exploration of the complexity of different modes of writing about Africa in the context of current debates on the nature of the literary in the production of African knowledge. Concerned with a rhetoric of self-writing as it has developed over two hundred years, Olakunle George attends to local details within the larger configurations of colonial discourse in this ambitious and timely work. It is a caution against the neglect of the conditions of possibility that made an African literature possible.” —Simon Gikandi, author of Slavery and the Culture of Taste “A new and welcome addition to the field of African literary studies, Olakunle George’s African Literature and Social Change is dense where it needs to be and glories in productive close readings when its objects call for it.” —Comparative Literature Studies

Author : Smith, Charles,Ce, Chin
Publisher : Handel Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789783703612

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Indigenous Heritage in African Literature by Smith, Charles,Ce, Chin Pdf

This edition commits to the depths of black identities in modern black texts. The cultural reclamation of an African origin and/or roots as tied to the solemn remembrance of the Ancestor has demanded the intense attention of enlightened black writers for the social and psychic revaluation of their generation and others that follow. In this series we further examine the status of the oral performer in African traditional societies which encouraged a wide range of human expression to create identity for members of the community Africa -and we have proposed a challenge to sustain the methods of creative transmission through the continuing presence of these African performers who are living proofs of the survival of her oral traditions, especially in the propulsion of communicative action and the communicative strength of men, women and children in the community.

Author : Maḥmūd Kutī ibn Mutawakkil Kutī Timbuktī
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01
Category : African literature
ISBN : 1592218105

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Taʼrīkh Al Fattāsh by Maḥmūd Kutī ibn Mutawakkil Kutī Timbuktī Pdf

200 years after the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade and 50 years after the emergence of the first independent African nation, creative writers and scholars gathered in Burlington, Vermont, to debate the state and global relevance of African and African diaspora writers in the 21st century. The papers that make up this volume were selected from a pool of more than 450 presented at the conference and they reflect the central tone of the debate as far as the theme of globalisation in African literature is concerned.

Author : Francis Ngaboh-Smart
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9042009802

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Beyond Empire and Nation by Francis Ngaboh-Smart Pdf

The impact of nationalism on the emergence and development of African literature is now well documented. Globalization or the postnational state it seems to herald, the emblematic phenomenon of our era, has not received much attention. Using a cultural studies approach, Beyond Empire and Nation is a fascinating account of the process of globalization in African Literature. The book starts with an analysis of nationalist rhetoric and ideology as exemplified by works such as Things Fall Apart. Thereafter, it dedicates a chapter each to B. Kojo Laing's novels and Nuruddin Farah's Trilogy (Maps, Gifts, and Secrets) as articulations of a globalized, postnational reality. At the heart o the book is an analysis of a nuanced and complex experience of global modernity as Africans reassess the constants of nationalist discourse: culture, identity, locality, and territoriality. Ngaboh-Smart does not believe that the postnational phenomenon is necessarily detrimental to the national-state and argues that it may well be capable of generating a new form of individual agency, although he is critical of those writers who ignore the new power dynamic inherent in globalization. Moving beyond the "clash of cultures" paradigm, Ngaboh-Smart's account of the renegotiation of national identity and ideology is a significant contribution to the criticism of African literature and its link to global social processes.

Author : Ifeoma M. Onyemelukwe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : African literature
ISBN : IND:30000115653069

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Colonial, Feminist and Postcolonial Discourses by Ifeoma M. Onyemelukwe Pdf

Author : GeoffreyV. Davis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351554619

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Performing Identities by GeoffreyV. Davis Pdf

Performing Identities brings together essays by scholars, artists and activists engaged in understanding and conserving rapidly disappearing local knowledge forms of indigenous communities across continents. It depicts the imaginative transactions evident in the interface of identity and cultural transformation, raising the issue of cultural rights of these otherwise marginalized communities.

Author : Tanure Ojaide
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351711197

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Literature and Culture in Global Africa by Tanure Ojaide Pdf

Engaging and interrogating the idea of a ‘Global Africa’, this book examines how African literary and cultural productions have changed over the years due to the social and political influences brought about by increased globalisation. Tanure Ojaide takes a variety of European theoretical concepts and applies these to African literature, oral traditions, culture, sexuality, political leadership, environmentalism, and advocacy, demonstrating the universality of the African experience. Challenging African literary artists and scholars to think creatively about the future of the culture and literature, this new collection of literary and cultural criticism from scholar-writer Tanure Ojaide is an essential read for students and scholars of African literature and culture.

Author : Tanure Ojaide,Joyce Ashuntantang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000053050

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Routledge Handbook of Minority Discourses in African Literature by Tanure Ojaide,Joyce Ashuntantang Pdf

This handbook provides a critical overview of literature dealing with groups of people or regions that suffer marginalization within Africa. The contributors examine a multiplicity of minority discourses expressed in African literature, including those who are culturally, socially, politically, religiously, economically, and sexually marginalized in literary and artistic creations. Chapters and sections of the book are structured to identify major areas of minority articulation of their condition and strategies deployed against the repression, persecution, oppression, suppression, domination, and tyranny of the majority or dominant group. Bringing together diverse perspectives to give a holistic representation of the African reality, this handbook is an important read for scholars and students of comparative and postcolonial literature and African studies.

Author : Abebe Zegeye,Maurice Vambe
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136659898

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Close to the Sources by Abebe Zegeye,Maurice Vambe Pdf

European and African works have found it difficult to move past the image of Africa as a place of exotica and relentless brutality. This book explores the status and critical relationship between politics, culture, literary creativity, criticism, education and publishing in the context of promoting Africa’s indigenous knowledge, and seeks to recover some of the sites where Africans continue to elaborate conflicting politics of self-affirmations. It both acknowledges and steps outside the protocols of analysis informed by nationalism, differentiating the forms that postcolonial theories have taken, and arguing for a selective appropriation of theory that emerges from Africa’s lived experiences.

Author : Lokangaka Losambe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000532906

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Postcolonial Agency in African and Diasporic Literature and Film by Lokangaka Losambe Pdf

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 : Tanure Ojaide,Enajite Eseoghene Ojaruega
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000379051

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The Literature and Arts of the Niger Delta by Tanure Ojaide,Enajite Eseoghene Ojaruega Pdf

This book examines the depiction of the Delta region of Nigeria through literature and other cultural art forms. The Niger Delta has been thrust into the global limelight due to resource extraction and conflict, but it is also a region with a rich culture, environment, and heritage. The creative imagination of the area’s artists has been fuelled by the area’s pressing concerns of indigenous peoples, minority discourse, environmental degradation, climate change, multinational corporations' greed, dictatorship, and people’s struggle for control of their resources. Taking a holistic approach to the Niger Delta experience, this book showcases artistic responses from literature, visual arts, and performances (such as masquerades, dances, and festivals). Chapters cover authors, artists, and performers such as Ben Okri, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Isidore Okpewho, J.P. Clark, and Bruce Onobrakpeya, as well as topics like the famous Benin bronze figures and Urhobo Udje dance. Affirming the wealth and diversity of the region which continues to inspire creative artistic productions, The Literature and Arts of the Niger Delta will be of interest to researchers of African literature, arts, and other cultural productions.