Intertextuality In Contemporary African Literature

Author : Ode Ogede
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780739164464

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Intertextuality in Contemporary African Literature by Ode Ogede Pdf

Intellectual exchange among African creative writers is the subject of this highly innovative and wide-ranging look at several forms of intertextuality on the continent. Focusing on the issue of the availability of old canonical texts of African literature as a creative resource, this study throws light on how African authors adapt, reinterpret, and redeploy existing texts in the formulation of new ones. Contemporary African writers are taking advantage of and extending the resources available in the existing native literary tradition. But the field of inter-ethnic/trans-national African literary inter-textual studies is a novel one in itself as the theme of African writers' debt to Euro-American authors has been the critical commonplace in African literature. Detailing the echoes and reverberations the voices of the past have generated, and the distinctive uses to which the writers are putting one another's works, the book demonstrates that the influence of local stock is significant: it is pervasive andwidespread, and manifests itself in ways both random and systematic, but it is a ubiquitous presence in the African literary imagination.

Author : Derek Wright
Publisher : Bayreuth African Studies
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105022822675

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Contemporary African Fiction by Derek Wright Pdf

Author : Susan Arndt
Publisher : Humboldt University of Berlin
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UVA:X004263741

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African Women's Literature, Orature, and Intertextuality by Susan Arndt Pdf

Author : Byron Caminero-Santangelo
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2004-12-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0791462625

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African Fiction and Joseph Conrad by Byron Caminero-Santangelo Pdf

Interrogates the "writing back to the center" approach to intertextuality and explores alternatives to it.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004484924

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Across the Lines by Anonim Pdf

This third volume of ASNEL Papers covers a wide range of theoretical and thematic approaches to the subject of intertextuality. Intertextual relations between oral and written versions of literature, text and performance, as well as problems emerging from media transitions, regionally instructed forms of intertextuality, and the works of individual authors are equally dealt with. Intertextuality as both a creative and a critical practice frequently exposes the essential arbitrariness of literary and cultural manifestations that have become canonized. The transformation and transfer of meanings which accompanies any crossing between texts rests not least on the nature of the artistic corpus embodied in the general framework of historically and socially determined cultural traditions. Traditions, however, result from selective forms of perception; they are as much inventions as they are based on exclusion. Intertextuality leads to a constant reinforcement of tradition, while, at the same time, intertextual relations between the new literatures and other English-language literatures are all too obvious. Despite the inevitable impact of tradition, the new literatures tend to employ a dynamic reading of culture which fosters social process and transition, thus promoting transcultural rather than intercultural modes of communication. Writing and reading across borders becomes a dialogue which reveals both differences and similarities. More than a decolonizing form of deconstruction, intertextuality is a strategy for communicating meaning across cultural boundaries.

Author : Ce, Chin,Smith, Charles
Publisher : Handel Books
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789783603592

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Oral Tradition in African Literature by Ce, Chin,Smith, Charles 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 : Reuben Makayiko Chirambo,J. K. S. Makokha
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 40,6 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 : Rebecca Fasselt,Corinne Sandwith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000562408

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The Short Story in South Africa by Rebecca Fasselt,Corinne Sandwith Pdf

This book considers the key critical interventions on short story writing in South Africa written in English since the year 2000. The short story genre, whilst often marginalised in national literary canons, has been central to the trajectory of literary history in South Africa. In recent years, the short story has undergone a significant renaissance, with new collections and young writers making a significant impact on the contemporary literary scene, and subgenres such as speculative fiction, erotic fiction, flash fiction and queer fiction expanding rapidly in popularity. This book examines the role of the short story genre in reflecting or championing new developments in South African writing and the ways in which traditional boundaries and definitions of the short story in South Africa have been reimagined in the present. Drawing together a range of critical interventions, including scholarly articles, interviews and personal reflective pieces, the volume traces some of the aesthetic and thematic continuities and discontinuities in the genre and sheds new light on questions of literary form. Finally, the book considers the place of the short story in twenty-first century writing and interrogates the ways in which the short story form may contribute to, or recast ideas of, the post-apartheid or post-transitional. The perfect guide to contemporary short story writing in South Africa, this book will be essential reading for researchers of African literature.

Author : Grace A Musila
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000588347

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Routledge Handbook of African Popular Culture by Grace A Musila Pdf

This handbook brings together an international team of scholars from different disciplines to reflect on African popular cultural imaginaries. These imaginaries – in the sense of cultural productions, contexts, consumers, producers, platforms, and the material, affective and discursive resources they circulate – are influential in shaping African realities. Collectively, the chapters assembled in this handbook index the genres, methods, mediums, questions and encounters that preoccupy producers, consumers and scholars of African popular cultural forms across a range of geohistorical and temporal contexts. Drawing on forms such as newspaper columns, televised English Premier League football, speculative arts, romance fiction, comedy, cinema, music and digital genres, the contributors explore the possibilities and ambiguities unleashed by the production, circulation, consumption, remediation and critique of these forms. Among the questions explored across these essays are the freedoms and constraints of popular genres; the forms of self-making, pleasure and harm that these imaginaries enable; the negotiations of multiple moral regimes in everyday life; and, inevitably, the fecund terrain of contradictions definitive of many popular forms, which variously enable and undermine world-making. An authoritative scholarly resource on popular culture in Africa, this handbook is an essential read for students and scholars of African culture, society and media.

Author : Phanuel Egejuru
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1980-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UVA:X000174073

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Towards African Literary Independence by Phanuel Egejuru Pdf

Author : Suriyan Panlay
Publisher : Springer
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319428932

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Racism in Contemporary African American Children’s and Young Adult Literature by Suriyan Panlay Pdf

Applying critical race theory to contemporary African American children’s and young adult literature, this book explores one key racial issue that has been overlooked both in race studies and literary scholarship—internalised racism. By systematically examining the issue of internalised racism and its detrimental psychological effects, particularly towards the young and vulnerable, this book defamiliarises the very racial issue that otherwise has become normalised in American racial discourse, reaffirming the relevance of race, racism, and racialisation in contemporary America. Through readings of works by Jacqueline Woodson, Sharon G. Flake, Tanita S. Davis, Sapphire, Rosa Guy, and Nikki Grimes, Suriyan Panlay develops a new critical discourse on internalised racism by studying its effects on marginalised children, its manifestations, and the fictional narrative strategies that can be used to regain and reclaim a sense of self.

Author : Gareth Griffiths
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317895855

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African Literatures in English by Gareth Griffiths Pdf

Here is an introduction to the history of English writing from East and West Africa drawing on a range of texts from the slave diaspora to the post-war upsurge in African English language and literature from these regions.

Author : Ode Ogede
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000852141

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Nigeria's Third-Generation Literature by Ode Ogede Pdf

This book considers the evolution and characteristics of Nigeria’s third-generation literature, which emerged between the late 1980s and the early 1990s and is marked by expressive modes and concerns distinctly different from those of the preceding era. The creative writing of this period reflects new sensibilities and anxieties about Nigeria’s changing fortunes in the post-colonial era. The literature of the third generation is startling in its candidness, irreverence as well as the brutal self-disclosure of its characters, and it is governed by an unusually wide-ranging sweep in narrative techniques. This book examines six key texts of the oeuvre: Maria Ajima’s The Web, Okey Ndibe’s Foreign Gods, Inc., Teju Cole’s Open City, Chika Unigwe’s On Black Sisters Street, Lola Shoneyin’s The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s The Thing Around Your Neck. The texts interpret contemporary corruption and other unspeakable social malaise; together, they point to the exciting future of Nigerian literature, which has always been defined by its daring creativity and inventive expressive modes. Even conventional storytelling strategies receive revitalizing energies in these angst-driven narratives. This book will be of interest to students and researchers of contemporary African literature, Sociology, Gender and women’s studies, and post-colonial cultural expression more broadly.

Author : Florence Stratton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2002-03
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781134860623

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Contemporary African Lit & Pol by Florence Stratton Pdf

First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Ernest Emenyo̲nu,Patricia Thornton Emenyonu,F. D. Imbuga
Publisher : James Currey Publishers
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 44,7 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