New Black And African Writing Volume 2

Author : Charles Smith,GMT Emezue
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-08
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9789783703643

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New Black and African Writing: Volume 2 by Charles Smith,GMT Emezue Pdf

NEW BLACK AND AFRICAN WRITING Vol. 2 is our concluding edition of a series that has featured many critical entries and reviews on canonical African fiction, poetry, drama and non-fiction. This second edition explores intricacies of relationships and associations, the recurrent tropes for the interpretation and understanding of historical connections, and the shaping of thought brought into fictional and cultural renditions that are evolving and continually reassessed although around the periphery of older canons. The quest for a meaningful heuristic for approaching contemporary arts is almost totally redefined by the contributions of eminent scholars of our time whose balancing and correspondence create room for complementarity of values and toward cultural understanding and value appreciation in contemporary society.

Author : N. K. Jemisin
Publisher : Orbit
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-02-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316075978

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The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N. K. Jemisin Pdf

After her mother's mysterious death, a young woman is summoned to the floating city of Sky in order to claim a royal inheritance she never knew existed in the first book in this award-winning fantasy trilogy from the NYT bestselling author of The Fifth Season. Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian north. But when her mother dies under mysterious circumstances, she is summoned to the majestic city of Sky. There, to her shock, Yeine is named an heiress to the king. But the throne of the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is not easily won, and Yeine is thrust into a vicious power struggle with cousins she never knew she had. As she fights for her life, she draws ever closer to the secrets of her mother's death and her family's bloody history. With the fate of the world hanging in the balance, Yeine will learn how perilous it can be when love and hate -- and gods and mortals -- are bound inseparably together.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : African literature
ISBN : 9783503561

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New Black & African Writing by Anonim Pdf

It is most apparent that this critical volume on new writings is not just intended to encapsulate the proud zest of Pan African idealism and black racial legacy: Its anchor on individual concerns within an all-inclusivist continental heritage is rather the core of its historical relevance. --Book Jacket.

Author : Bruce King
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:954808311

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A Celebration of Black and African Writing by Bruce King Pdf

Author : Carole Boyce-Davies,Molara Ogundipe-Leslie
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1995-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780814712405

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Moving Beyond Boundaries (Vol. 2) by Carole Boyce-Davies,Molara Ogundipe-Leslie Pdf

V. 1. International dimensions of Black women's writing -- .

Author : Bernth Lindfors
Publisher : Africana Pub.
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040208394

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Black African Literature in English by Bernth Lindfors Pdf

Author : Hans M. Zell,Carol Bundy,Virginia Coulon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015031733481

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A New Reader's Guide to African Literature by Hans M. Zell,Carol Bundy,Virginia Coulon Pdf

Author : Mpalive-Hangson Msiska,Paul Hyland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781315505152

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Writing and Africa by Mpalive-Hangson Msiska,Paul Hyland Pdf

This volume reflects one of the new areas of English Studies as it broadens to take in non-western literatures, and places more emphasis on the contexts and broader notions of `writing'. In discussing writing from and about Africa, this collection touches on studies in black writing, colonialism and imperialism and cultural development in the third world. It begins by providing a historical introduction to the main regional traditions, and then builds on this to discuss major issues, such as oral tradition, the significance of `literature' as a western import, representations of Africa in western writing, African writing against colonialism and its themes and politics in a post-colonial world, popular writing and the representation of women.

Author : Charles Smith,Gloria Monica T. Emezue
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : African literature
ISBN : 9783503561

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New Black & African Writing by Charles Smith,Gloria Monica T. Emezue Pdf

It is most apparent that this critical volume on new writings is not just intended to encapsulate the proud zest of Pan African idealism and black racial legacy: Its anchor on individual concerns within an all-inclusivist continental heritage is rather the core of its historical relevance. --Book Jacket.

Author : Bennetta Jules-Rosette
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : African literature (French)
ISBN : 0252069358

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Black Paris by Bennetta Jules-Rosette Pdf

Black Paris documents the struggles and successes of three generations of African writers as they strive to establish their artistic, literary, and cultural identities in France. Based on long-term ethnographic, archival, and historical research, the work is enriched by interviews with many writers of the new generation. Bennetta Jules-Rosette explores African writing and identity in France from the early n gritude movement and the founding of the Pr sence Africaine publishing house in 1947 to the mid-1990s. Examining the relationship between African writing and French anthropology as well as the emergence of new styles and discourses, Jules-Rosette covers French Pan-Africanism and the revolutionary writing of the 1960s and 1970s. She also discusses the new generation of African writers who appeared in Paris during the 1980s and 1990s.

Author : Jasmine Nichole Cobb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 1108632009

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African American Literature in Transition, 1800-1830 by Jasmine Nichole Cobb Pdf

"African American literature in the years between 1800 and 1830 emerged from significant transitions in the cultural, technological, and political circulation of ideas. Transformations included increased numbers of Black organizations, shifts in the physical mobility of Black peoples, expanded circulation of abolitionist and Black newsprint as well as greater production of Black authored texts and images. The perpetuation of slavery in the early American republic meant that many people of African descent conveyed experiences of bondage or promoted abolition in complex ways, relying on a diverse array of print and illustrative forms. Accordingly, this volume takes a thematic approach to African American literature from 1800 to 1830, exploring Black organizational life before 1830, movement and mobility in African American literature, and print culture in circulation, illustration, and the narrative form"--

Author : Carole Boyce Davies,Molara Ogundipe-Leslie
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0745308821

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Moving Beyond Boundaries Volume 2: Black Women's Diaspora by Carole Boyce Davies,Molara Ogundipe-Leslie Pdf

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Author : Pauline Fletcher
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Black people in literature
ISBN : 0838752624

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Black/White Writing by Pauline Fletcher Pdf

The volume closes with an essay by Gerald Monsman that takes the reader back to an earlier South Africa, examining Olive Schreiner's writing in the broader context of other stories from an imperialist past. Two poems by Dennis Brutus open the volume. They speak eloquently of human suffering and the desire for peace.

Author : James Currey
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780821447925

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Africa Writes Back by James Currey Pdf

June 17, 2008, is the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart by Heinemann. This publication provided the impetus for the foundation of the African Writers Series in 1962 with Chinua Achebe as the editorial adviser. Africa Writes Back: The African Writers Series and the Launch of African Literature captures the energy of literary publishing in a new and undefined field. Portraits of the leading characters and the many consultants and readers providing reports and advice to new and established writers make Africa Writes Back a stand-out book. James Currey’s voice and insights are an added bonus. CONTENTS Publishing and selling the African Writers Series The African Writers Series Portfolio & George Hallett’s covers Main dates for the African Writers Series INTRODUCTION: The establishment of African Literature Publishing Chinua Achebe 1. WRITERS FROM WEST AFRICA Nigeria: The country where so much started Negritude from Senegal to Cameroun Magic & realism from Ghana, The Gambia & Sierra Leone 2. WRITERS FROM EASTERN AFRICA Towards the oral & the popular in Kenya, Uganda & Tanzania Publishing Ngugi 3. WRITERS FROM THE HORN & NORTH-EASTERN AFRICA Emperors in Ethiopia Publishing Nuruddin Farah Arab authors in Egypt & Sudan 4. WRITERS FROM SOUTH AFRICA Resistance in South Africa Publishing Alex la Guma Publishing Dennis Brutus Publishing Bessie Head Publishing Masizi Kunene 5. WRITERS FROM SOUTHERN AFRICAN Guns & Guerrillas in Mozambique &Angola Zambia Shall be Free Death & detention in Malawi The struggle to become Zimbabwe Publishing Dambudzo Marechera CONCLUSION: Is there still a role for the African Writers Series?

Author : Leila Kamali
Publisher : Springer
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137581716

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The Cultural Memory of Africa in African American and Black British Fiction, 1970-2000 by Leila Kamali Pdf

This book offers a new approach to reading the cultural memory of Africa in African American fiction from the post-Civil Rights era and in Black British fiction emerging in the wake of Thatcherism. The critical period between the decline of the Civil Rights Movement and the dawn of the twenty-first century saw a deep contrast in the distinctive narrative approaches displayed by diverse African diaspora literatures in negotiating the crisis of representing the past. Through a series of close readings of literary fiction, this work examines how the cultural memory of Africa is employed in diverse and specific negotiations of narrative time, in order to engage and shape contemporary identity and citizenship. By addressing the practice of “remembering” Africa, the book argues for the signal importance of the African diaspora’s literary interventions, and locates new paradigms for cultural identity in contemporary times.