Style In African Literature

Author : J. K. S. Makokha,Ogone John Obiero,Russell West-Pavlov
Publisher : Brill Rodopi
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9042034769

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Style in African Literature by J. K. S. Makokha,Ogone John Obiero,Russell West-Pavlov Pdf

Postcolonial and contemporary African literatures have always been marked by an acute sensitivity to the politics of language, an attentiveness inscribed in the linguistic fabric of their own modes of expression. It is curious however, that despite the prevalence of a much-touted 'linguistic turn' in twentieth century theory and cultural production, language has frequently been neglected by literary studies in general. Even more curiously, postcolonial literary studies, an erstwhile emergent and now established discipline which has from the outset contained important elements of linguistic critique, has eschewed any sustained engagement with this topic. This absence is salient in the study of African literatures, despite, for instance, the prominence of orature in the African literary tradition right up to the present day, and sporadic meditations on the part of such luminaries as Achebe and Ngũgĩ. Beyond this, however, there has been little scholarly work attuned to the multifarious aspects of language and linguistic politics in the study of African literature. The present volume aims to rectify such lacunae by making a substantial interdisciplinary and transcultural contribution to the gradual reinstatement of the 'linguistic turn' in African literary studies. The volume focuses variously on postcolonial and transcultural African literatures, areas of literary production where the confluence of several languages, whether indigenous and (post)colonial in the first case, and local and global in the second case, appears to be a central and decisive factor in the formation and transformation of the continent and its peoples' cultural identities.

Author : Gaurav Desai
Publisher : Modern Language Association of America
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1603290370

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Teaching the African Novel by Gaurav Desai Pdf

What is the African novel, and how should it be taught? The twenty-three essays of this volume address these two questions and in the process convey a wealth of information and ideas about the diverse regions, peoples, nations, languages, and writers of the African continent. Topics include Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's favoring of indigenous languages and literary traditions over European; the special place of Marxism in African letters;the influence of Frantz Fanon; women writers and the sub-Saharan novel;the Maghrebian novel;the novel and the griot epic in the Sahel;Islam in the West African novel;novels in Spanish from Equatorial Guinea;apartheid and postapartheid fiction;African writers in the diaspora;globalization in East African fiction; teaching Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart to students in different countries;the Onitsha market romance. The volume editor, Gaurav Desai, writes, "The point of the volume is to encourage a reading of Africa that is sensitive to its history of colonization but at the same time responsive to its present multiracial and multicultural condition."

Author : Albert S. Gérard
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 905183196X

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Contexts of African Literature by Albert S. Gérard Pdf

Author : Lewis Nkosi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UVA:X000445031

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Tasks and Masks by Lewis Nkosi Pdf

Author : Edmund L. Epstein,Robert Kole
Publisher : Africa World Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 52,9 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.

Author : Taiwo Abioye,Arua E. Arua,Kehinde Ayoola
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-24
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781443871730

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Language, Literature and Style in Africa by Taiwo Abioye,Arua E. Arua,Kehinde Ayoola Pdf

This book brings together the seminal contributions of scholars interested in the study of language, literature and style in Africa. It marks a response to the longstanding neglect of stylistic analysis of canonical and emergent fictional and non-fictional African prose and discourse. As a reaction to this neglect of African literary artefacts, the book provides a welcome and timely deviation from the norm. The contributions to this volume include discussions that are both analytical and theoretical; analyses of style at the levels of lexis and semantics; newer and more innovative analyses that highlight the relationship between style, pedagogy and technology-mediated discourse; and a final discussion that provides an appropriate background against which issues related to language, literature and style can be understood. In terms of the volumes representation of diverse geographical contexts, the papers included here bridge the North-South divide in Africa, and there are contributions from Libya, Nigeria, South Africa and Zimbabwe. As such, the book is an interesting collection of papers that illuminate the study of literary style in Africa and highlight the need for a greater revival of it on a larger scale.

Author : Charles E. Nnolim
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789788422365

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Issues in African Literature by Charles E. Nnolim Pdf

The multitudinous nature of African literature has always been an issue but really not a problem, although its oral base has been used by expatriate critics to accuse African literature of thin plots, superficial characterisation, and narrative structures. African literature also, it is observed, is a mixed grill: it is oral; it is written in vernacular or tribal tongues; written in foreign tongues English, French, Portuguese and within the foreign language in which it is written, pidgin and creole further bend the already bent language giving African literature a further taint of linguistic impurity. African literature further suffers from the nature of its "newness" and this created problems for the critic. Because it is new, and because its critics are in simultaneous existence with its writers, we confront the problem of "instant analysis". Issues in African Literature continues the debate and tries to clarify contemporary burning issues in African literature, by focussing on particular areas where the debate has been most concerned or around which it has hovered and been persistent.

Author : V. Klima,K.F. Ruzicka,P. Zima
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789401017619

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Black Africa by V. Klima,K.F. Ruzicka,P. Zima Pdf

In October 1972, our Czech-written book Literatury eerne Afriky (Literatures of Black Mrica) was published in Prague, presenting a survey of an extensive field. The publication, which was signed at that time by all three authors, differed from most contemporary introductions to the study of Mrican literatures in a threefold way: a) The authors attempted to cover various literacy and literary efforts in the area roughly delimited by Senegal in the west, Kenya in the east, Lake Chad in the north and the Cape in the south. We were well aware-even at that time-that neither technically nor linguistically would it be possible to cover all literary efforts within that area. We did try, however, to include in our survey both the literacies and literatures written in the Indo-European linguae francae (English, French, Portuguese) and in at least several of the major African languages of the area. We did not attempt an exhaustive description, but wished, rather, to show the mutual relationships which emerge, if the literatures of thii\ area, written either in the major linguae francae or in the African languages, are studied not as isolated phenomena, but as mutually complementary features. b) As two of us were linguists and one was a literary historian, we did not limit our analysis of the developing literacies and literatures to the purely cultural and literary aspects. Our intention waR to deal-whcre and if it was relevant-not only with the process of African literary development, but also with the simultaneous, complementar.

Author : Fidelis Odun Balogun
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015019813487

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Tradition and Modernity in the African Short Story by Fidelis Odun Balogun Pdf

While the short story has long been treated seriously by scholars in both Europe and America, in Africa the genre has been all but ignored by critics. Despite its popularity on the continent, the African short story has never been the subject of a thorough and systematic study. In this pioneering work, F. Odun Balogun offers a two-part look at the genre, beginning with a general survey of African short stories and an approach for textual analysis, and followed by a detailed exploration of the themes and artistic methods of two representative writers. The book provides an extensive range of coverage, as well as theoretic perspectives on the historical development of African prose, literature of the absurd, and other aspects of literary theory. The work begins with a four-chapter section surveying theoretical aspects of the African short story. Chapter one examines the critical scholarship, discusses the reasons for neglect and reaffirms the significance of the African short story, while chapter two explores the major thematic preoccupations of the writers working in the genre. Topics covered include art, religion, tradition and culture, urban life, colonial and post-colonial reality, and apartheid. In chapter three, the African short story is judged against the exacting demands of the genre, with particular emphasis on verbal discipline, imaginativeness, and linguistic experimentations. Chapter four concludes the general survey with a discussion of irony, the most dominant element of style and source of appeal. The book's second section offers detailed studies of the work of two writers: Chinua Achebe, who typifies the traditional realistic mode, and Taban lo Liyong, a post-modernist experimentalist. Each author's work is examined for general themes and artistic structures, and is followed by close examinations of Achebe's Girls at War and The Madman and lo Liyong's Fixions and The Uniformed Man. A brief summary chapter concludes the work. This important, first-of-its-kind study will be an indispensable resource for courses in African literature, African prose fiction, and twentieth century short stories, as well as a valuable addition to both public and academic libraries.

Author : Emmanuel Ngara
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UCAL:B4948796

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Stylistic Criticism and the African Novel by Emmanuel Ngara Pdf

Author : Eldred D. Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015024797766

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The Question of Language in African Literature Today by Eldred D. Jones Pdf

Author : Isaac Irabor Elimimian
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UVA:X002065399

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Theme and Style in African Poetry by Isaac Irabor Elimimian Pdf

A critical study which explores the range and content of African verse. The text embraces oral poetry and francophone verse.

Author : Ce, Chin,Smith, Charles
Publisher : Handel Books
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 46,5 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 : 44,9 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 : W. H. I. Bleek,L. C. Lloyd
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 101540104X

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Specimens of Bushman Folklore by W. H. I. Bleek,L. C. Lloyd Pdf

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