Oral Forms Of Nigerian Autobiography And Life Stories

Author : Adetayo Alabi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000428865

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Oral Forms of Nigerian Autobiography and Life Stories by Adetayo Alabi Pdf

Oral Forms of Nigerian Autobiography and Life Stories discusses the oral life stories and poems that Africans, particularly the Yoruba people, have told about the self and community over hundreds of years. Disproving the Eurocentric argument that Africans didn’t produce stories about themselves, the author showcases a vibrant literary tradition of oral autobiographies in Africa and the diaspora. The oral auto/biographies studied in this book show that stories and poems about individuals and their communities have always existed in various African societies and they were used to record, teach, and document history, culture, tradition, identity, and resistance. Genres covered in the book include the panegyric, witches’ and wizards’ narratives, the epithalamium tradition, the hunter’s chant, and Udje of the Urhobo. Providing an important showcase for oral narrative traditions this book will be of interest to students, scholars, and researchers in African and Africana studies, literature and auto/biographical studies.

Author : Tanure Ojaide
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031156175

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African Battle Traditions of Insult by Tanure Ojaide Pdf

This book explores the “battles” of words, songs, poetry, and performance in Africa and the African Diaspora. These are usually highly competitive, artistic contests in which rival parties duel for supremacy in poetry composition and/or its performance. This volume covers the history of this battle tradition, from its origins in Africa, especially the udje and halo of the Urhobo and Ewe respectively, to its transportation to the Americas and the Caribbean region during the Atlantic slave trade period, and its modern and contemporary manifestations as battle rap or other forms of popular music in Africa. Almost everywhere there are contemporary manifestations of the more traditional, older genres. The book is thus made up of studies of contests in which rivals duel for supremacy in verbal arts, song-poetry, and performance as they display their wit, sense of humor, and poetic expertise.

Author : Onyemanze Ejiogu
Publisher : Kraft Books Limited
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : IND:30000056175890

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A Nigerian Life by Onyemanze Ejiogu Pdf

Author : Tonia Leigh Wind
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000479706

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Black Women’s Literature of the Americas by Tonia Leigh Wind Pdf

Drawing on a range of historical and literary texts, this book examines how Black women under the yoke of slavery negotiated their sense of belonging and spirituality from a liminal position, stuck between a new life in the Americas, and their connections to their African ancestral roots and a wider diasporic community. The book investigates how Black women in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean, the United States, and Brazil turned to their spiritual beliefs as a tool of resilience and resistance. These “griots” and “goddesses” are forced to negotiate complex issues such as race, gender, identity, maternity, sexuality, and belonging, from a liminal position that looks to both settle roots in a foreign land, and stay connected to ancestors and the Sacred. As these Black female protagonists turn to (re)memory and ancestral knowledge to map their connection with the Divine, they become mediators of worlds, and hybrid griots surpassing temporal and geographical boundaries. With important reflections on Toni Morrison’s Beloved, Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa’s Daughters of the Stone, and Ana Maria Gonçalves’s Um Defeito de Cor, amongst other texts, this book will be of interest to advanced students and researchers of comparative literature, religious studies, gender studies, and African diaspora studies.

Author : Cheryl Sterling
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000461046

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Transnational Africana Women’s Fictions by Cheryl Sterling Pdf

This book explores the works of women writers and filmmakers across the African and African Diaspora world, reflecting on how the transnational sphere can serve to highlight voices that were at the margins of gender and race hierarchies. The book demonstrates how in discourse and theory Africana women are the centers of their own knowledge production and agency, as the artists and their characters point the way forward. Their multi-perspectivism leads to avenues of selective mutuality and influence to generate transformative creative work, scholarship, and practices. Writers included are Sylvia Wynter, Edwidge Danticat, Amanda Smith, Werewere Liking, Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche, Sefi Atta, NoViolet Bulawayo, Nnedi Okorafor, Mariama Bâ, Ama Ata Aidoo, Igiaba Scego, Léonara Miano, Gisèle Hountondji, Monique Ilboudo, and Maryse Condé, as well as filmmaker Kemi Adetiba. Over the course of the book, the contributors critically explore and update the canon on women in the African and African Diaspora literary sphere, highlighting their contributions to theoretical debates and providing substantive nuance to diasporic subjectivity. This book will be of interest to scholars of African and Africana Studies, comparative literature, and women and gender studies.

Author : Peter Moopi,Rodwell Makombe
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000968590

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Coloniality and Migrancy in African Diasporic Literatures by Peter Moopi,Rodwell Makombe Pdf

This book explores literary representations of African immigrant experiences in Western countries, against the backdrop of colonial stereotypes and recent expressions of anti-immigrant sentiment in Europe and America. The book deploys the concept of coloniality of migrancy to explore how global coloniality continues to shape the identities and lived experiences of African immigrants as represented in African diasporic literatures. It considers the persistence of racist and discriminatory attitudes and patterns of thought that developed during slavery and colonialism, and asks to what extent it is possible for African immigrants to transcend race in their configuration of their identity. Five key twenty-first century African diasporic novels are considered in the analysis: Imbolo Mbue’s Behold the Dreamers, Dave Eggers’ What is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah, NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names and Helon Habila’s Travellers. Overall, the book demonstrates that despite the hostility migrants of colour encounter, Africans are shunning the victimhood of colonialism and slavery and finding alternative ways of navigating and inhabiting the modern world. Foregrounding the usefulness of decoloniality and postcolonial theory as theoretical tools, this book will be an invaluable resource to researchers across the fields of African literature, migration, sociology, politics, and decolonial studies.

Author : Polo B. Moji
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000547689

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Gender and the Spatiality of Blackness in Contemporary AfroFrench Narratives by Polo B. Moji Pdf

This book approaches the study of AfroEurope through narrative forms produced in contemporary France, a location which richly illustrates race in European spaces. The book adopts a transdisciplinary lens that combines critical black and urban geographies, intersectional feminism, and textual analysis to explore the spatial negotiations of black women in France. It assesses literature, film, and music as narrative forms and engages with the sociocultural and political contexts from which they emerge. Through the figure of the black flâneuse and the analytical framework of "walking as method", the book goes beneath spectacular representations of ghettoised banlieues, televised protests, and shipwrecked migrants to analyse the spatiality of blackness in the everyday. It argues that the material-discursive framing of black flânerie, as both relational and embodied movements, renders visible a politics of place embedded in everyday micro-struggles of raced-sexed subjects. Foregrounding expressive modes and forms that have traditionally received little critical attention outside of the French and francophone world, this book will be relevant to academics, researchers, writers, students, activists, and readers with interests in Literary and Cultural Studies, African and Afrodiasporic Studies, Black Feminisms, Migration Studies, Critical Black Geographies, Francophone Studies, and the comparative framework of Afroeuropean Studies.

Author : Rose A. Sackeyfio
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000474480

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West African Women in the Diaspora by Rose A. Sackeyfio Pdf

This book examines fictional works by women authors who have left their homes in West Africa and now live as members of the diaspora. In recent years a compelling array of critically acclaimed fiction by women in the West African diaspora has shifted the direction of the African novel away from post-colonial themes of nationhood, decolonization and cultural authenticity, and towards explorations of the fluid and shifting constructions of identity in transnational spaces. Drawing on works by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Buchi Emecheta, Ama Ata Aidoo, Sefi Atta, Chika Unigwe and Taiye Selasie, this book interrogates the ways in which African diaspora women’s fiction portrays the realities of otherness, hybridity and marginalized existence of female subjects beyond Africa’s borders. Overall, the book demonstrates that life in the diaspora is an uncharted journey of expanded opportunities along with paradoxical realities of otherness. Providing a vivid and composite portrait of African women’s experiences in the diasporic landscape, this book will be of interest to researchers of migration and diaspora topics, and African, women’s and world literature.

Author : Dobrota Pucherová
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000620290

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Feminism and Modernity in Anglophone African Women’s Writing by Dobrota Pucherová Pdf

This book re-reads the last 60 years of Anglophone African women’s writing from a transnational and trans-historical feminist perspective, rather than postcolonial, from which these texts have been traditionally interpreted. Such a comparative frame throws into relief patterns across time and space that make it possible to situate this writing as an integral part of women’s literary history. Revisiting this literature in a comparative context with Western women writers since the 18th century, the author highlights how invocations of "tradition" have been used by patriarchy everywhere to subjugate women, the similarities between women’s struggles worldwide, and the feminist imagination it produced. The author argues that in the 21st century, African feminism has undergone a major epistemic shift: from a culturally exclusive to a relational feminism that conceptualizes African femininity through the risky opening of oneself to otherness, transculturation, and translation. Like Western feminists in the 1960s, contemporary African women writers are turning their attention to the female body as the prime site of women’s oppression and freedom, reframing feminism as a demand for universal human rights and actively shaping global discourses on gender, modernity, and democracy. The book will be of interest to students and researchers of African literature, but also feminist literary scholars and comparatists more generally.

Author : Mary Caputi,Patricia Moynagh
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781800889132

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Research Handbook on Feminist Political Thought by Mary Caputi,Patricia Moynagh Pdf

Illustrating the collective power and relevance of feminist theory today, Mary Caputi and Patricia Moynagh have carefully selected a diverse international range of leading scholars and activists to critically assess key social and political challenges in the twenty-first century. This Research Handbook demonstrates a variety of feminist analyses that offer compelling insights into an array of topics, including police brutality, the carceral state, racial and sexualised violence, trans rights, climate change, and the denial of reproductive rights.

Author : Virginia Ngozi Etiaba
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Governors
ISBN : 9789293062

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My Life, My Story by Virginia Ngozi Etiaba Pdf

Author : Margaretta Jolly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1141 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136787447

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Encyclopedia of Life Writing by Margaretta Jolly Pdf

This is the first substantial reference work in English on the various forms that constitute "life writing." As this term suggests, the Encyclopedia explores not only autobiography and biography proper, but also letters, diaries, memoirs, family histories, case histories, and other ways in which individual lives have been recorded and structured. It includes entries on genres and subgenres, national and regional traditions from around the world, and important auto-biographical writers, as well as articles on related areas such as oral history, anthropology, testimonies, and the representation of life stories in non-verbal art forms.

Author : Rebecca Jones
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781847012227

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At the Crossroads by Rebecca Jones Pdf

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ASAUK FAGE & OLIVER PRIZE 2020 'Honorable Mention' for the ALA FIRST BOOK AWARD - SCHOLARSHIP 2021 A path-breaking contribution to the critical literature on African travel writing.

Author : Toyin Falola
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2005-11-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780472031320

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A Mouth Sweeter Than Salt by Toyin Falola Pdf

DIVThe long-awaited memoir from the most prolific historian of Africa /div

Author : Olu Bajowa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Nigeria
ISBN : STANFORD:36105070007799

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Spring of a Life by Olu Bajowa Pdf