Milestones In African Literature

Author : Toyin Falola
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781040093818

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Milestones in African Literature by Toyin Falola Pdf

Milestones in African Literature offers an accessible guide to ten key moments in African literature. It traces literature in Africa through forms and genres, as well as social and political changes. Toyin Falola embraces the richness of African literature, and considers the oral tradition, pre-colonial literature, apartheid, print media and digital literature, postcolonialism, and migration literature. He explores the realities of African people by drawing from and highlighting peoples’ convictions, spirituality, and pasts. The book reveals African literature’s capacity to convey cultural, social, and political messages through storytelling, while depicting the social structures and cultural norms that shape these experiences through the examination of perspectives and literary works of African authors. Milestones in African Literature is the ideal resource for undergraduate and graduate students interested in African literatures. It will also be invaluable for teachers and researchers aiming to strengthen their knowledge.

Author : Michelle Martin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135949143

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Brown Gold by Michelle Martin Pdf

Brown Gold is a compelling history and analysis of African-American children's picturebooks from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. At the turn of the nineteenth century, good children's books about black life were hard to find — if, indeed, young black readers and their parents could even gain entry into the bookstores and libraries. But today, in the "Golden Age" of African-American children's picturebooks, one can find a wealth of titles ranging from Happy to be Nappy to Black is Brown is Tan. In this book, Michelle Martin explores how the genre has evolved from problematic early works such as Epaminondas that were rooted in minstrelsy and stereotype, through the civil rights movement, and onward to contemporary celebrations of blackness. She demonstrates the cultural importance of contemporary favorites through keen historical analysis — scrutinizing the longevity and proliferation of the Coontown series and Ten Little Niggers books, for example — that makes clear how few picturebooks existed in which black children could see themselves and their people positively represented even up until the 1960s. Martin also explores how children's authors and illustrators have addressed major issues in black life and history including racism, the civil rights movement, black feminism, major historical figures, religion, and slavery. Brown Gold adds new depth to the reader's understanding of African-American literature and culture, and illuminates how the round, dynamic characters in these children's novels, novellas, and picturebooks can put a face on the past, a face with which many contemporary readers can identify.

Author : Catherine Lynette Innes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1992-03-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521428971

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Chinua Achebe by Catherine Lynette Innes Pdf

"Things fall Apart", is compared with Joyce Cary's "Mister Johnson". Achebe's novel is seen as a more realistic portrayal of the society and culture of indigenous people of Nigeria.

Author : Ernest Emenyo̲nu,Patricia Thornton Emenyonu,F. D. Imbuga
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : African literature (English)
ISBN : UOM:39015063100773

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

This volume of the historic journal African Literature Today provides an overview of the position of African literature at the end of the 20th century and an examination of the directions that African literature is now taking with new and emerging writers and the growth of writing by African women. Contributors examine the influence of new concerns such as globalization and the view from the diaspora and anticipate where this might lead the next generation of African writers. Contents: Editorial Article: New Directions in African Literature: Building on the Legacies of the 20th Century by Ernest N. Emenyonu- Articles: African Literature in the 21st Century: Challenges for Writers & Critics by Charles Nnolim-Bursting at the Seams: New Dimensions for African Literature in the 21st Century by Thomas Hale- New Trends in the Sierra Leonean Novel by Eustace Palmer- Transcultural Identity in African Narrative of Childhood by Richard Priebe-The Marks Left on the Surface; Zoe Wicomb's David's Story by Kenneth W. Harrow- Mothering Daughters: The Other Side of the Story by Monica Bungaro-Transcending the Margins: New Trends in Female Writings in Africa by Iniobong I. Uko-Rethinking Nation and Narrative in a Global Era: Recent African Writing by Nana Wilson-Tagoe-A Last Shot at the 20th Century Canon by Bernth Lindfors-Reviews.

Author : Smith, Charles,Ce, Chin
Publisher : Handel Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,8 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 : Onyema Chukwu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : African fiction (English)
ISBN : IND:30000109217004

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Landmarks by Onyema Chukwu Pdf

Author : Gareth Griffiths
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 40,8 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 : G. D. Killam,Ruth Rowe
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0253336333

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The Companion to African Literatures by G. D. Killam,Ruth Rowe Pdf

"Refreshing..." -- African Sudies Review "The entries are knowledgeable, thorough, and clearly written.... Highly recommended... " --Choice "...an ambitious reference guide to works on African literature." - African Studies Review "This comprehensive compendium will be a handy companion for anyone working on African literatures. The entries are authoritative and up-to-date, providing reliable information on the hundreds of authors and texts that have contributed to a whole continent's literary flowering." --Bernth Lindfors A comprehensive introduction and guide to African-authored works, with over 1,000 cross-referenced entries covering classics in African writing, literary genres and movements, biographical details of authors, and wider themes linking African, Afro-Caribbean and Afro-American literatures.

Author : Anthonia C. Kalu
Publisher : Africa World Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : African literature (English)
ISBN : 0865439273

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Women, Literature, and Development in Africa by Anthonia C. Kalu Pdf

In a powerful exploration of contemporary African scholars' efforts to re-chart and preserve the evolution of African thought on development, Kalu brings together various dominant perspectives on Africa's entry and participation in the international arena. Using African verbal arts to bring women into ongoing discussions about the search for feasible paradigms for African development, as well as world assumptions about Africa and African women, Kalu successfully elucidates the encounter between African and colonists' languages and narrative traditions.

Author : G. D. Killam
Publisher : London : Heinemann
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015046360791

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African Writers on African Writing by G. D. Killam Pdf

The essays, articles and interviews in this book offer a selection of views on African writing by African writers, such as Chinua Achebe, J.P. Clark, Gabriel Okara, Lewis Nkosi, James Ngugi, Okello Oculi, Ali A. Mazrui, Sembène Ousmane, Nadine Gordimer and Joe Kariuki. They form landmarks on the road towards the establishment of a cxritical assessment of modern African writing. The essays reveal three concers. Firstly a concern with the social and political function of literature. Then there is the debate on relationship between African literature and the traditions of English and French literature. Finally the writers are anxious to establish the uniquely African quality of African literature and the African society that literature reflects.

Author : Nicholas M. Creary
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527510432

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South African Literary Cultural Nationalism—Abalobi beSizwe eMzansi—1918-45 by Nicholas M. Creary Pdf

This book is an intellectual history that uses Amílcar Cabral’s theory of the “return to the source,” to examine Sol Plaatje’s Mhudi, B.W. Vilakazi’s poetry, and A.C. Jordan’s The Wrath of the Ancestors within the broader context of African cultural nationalisms in the early twentieth century African Atlantic World. It shows the development of the idea of African equality with Whites in the face of prevailing ideas of White supremacy during Union-era South Africa. These authors were part of the New African Movement, which was one of eight literary movements among Africans and peoples of African descent in the Americas between 1915 and 1945, including the Harlem Renaissance, Négritude, Claridade in Cape Verde, and similar movements in Cuba, Haiti, Brazil, and Belize. The text presents new models for interpreting Union-era African literature, and recasts understanding of the nature of interactions between Africans and Europeans, including Western Syphilization, Chiral Interdiscursivity, and the relationship between history and memory informed by a neurobiological analysis of memory.

Author : Nadine Gordimer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : African fiction (English)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035449573

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African Literature by Nadine Gordimer Pdf

Author : African Literature Association. Meeting,Omofolabo Ajayi-Soyinka
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123186780

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African Literatures at the Millennium by African Literature Association. Meeting,Omofolabo Ajayi-Soyinka Pdf

Selected papers presented at the 26th annual meeting of the African Literature Association, which was held at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, from April 12 to 16, 2000.

Author : Priscilla Kivuitu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Africa
ISBN : STANFORD:36105121980523

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Milestones in History and Government by Priscilla Kivuitu Pdf

Author : Edmund L. Epstein,Robert Kole
Publisher : Africa World Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : African literature
ISBN : 0865435359

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The Language of African Literature by Edmund L. Epstein,Robert Kole Pdf

In this unprecedented anthology, some of the most prolific and widely read African novelists are analysed.