Download Full eBooks in PDF
The South African Novel In English Since 1950 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of The South African Novel In English Since 1950 book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Author : G. E. Gorman
Publisher : Boston : G.K. Hall
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015011514562
Author : Simon Gikandi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199765096
Explores the institutions of cultural production that exerted influence in late colonialism, from missionary schools and metropolitan publishers to universities and small presses. How these structures provoke and respond to the literary trends and social peculiarities of Africa and the Caribbean impacts not only the writing and reading of novels in those regions, but also has a transformative effect on the novel as a global phenomenon.
Author : Mukoma Wa Ngugi
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780472053681
Engaging questions of language, identity, and reception to restore South African and diaspora writing to the African literary tradition
Author : Michael J. F. Chapman,Colin Oxenham Gardner,Es'kia Mphahlele
Publisher : Ad Donker Publishers
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006068022
Author : Kenneth Parker
Publisher : Springer
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1978-06-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781349036899
Author : Gareth Cornwell,Dirk Klopper,Craig MacKenzie
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780231130462
From the outset, South Africa's history has been marked by division and conflict along racial and ethnic lines. From 1948 until 1994, this division was formalized in the National Party's policy of apartheid. Because apartheid intruded on every aspect of private and public life, South African literature was preoccupied with the politics of race and social engineering. Since the release from prison of Nelson Mandela in 1990, South Africa has been a new nation-in-the-making, inspired by a nonracial idealism yet beset by poverty and violence. South African writers have responded in various ways to Njabulo Ndebele's call to "rediscover the ordinary." The result has been a kaleidoscope of texts in which evolving cultural forms and modes of identity are rearticulated and explored. An invaluable guide for general readers as well as scholars of African literary history, this comprehensive text celebrates the multiple traditions and exciting future of the South African voice. Although the South African Constitution of 1994 recognizes no fewer than eleven official languages, English has remained the country's literary lingua franca. This book offers a narrative overview of South African literary production in English from 1945 to the postapartheid present. An introduction identifies the most interesting and noteworthy writing from the period. Alphabetical entries provide accurate and objective information on genres and writers. An appendix lists essential authors published before 1945.
Author : Albert S. Gérard
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : African literature (English)
ISBN : 9630538334
Author : Horst Zander
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Black people
ISBN : 3823346598
Author : Mpalive-Hangson Msiska,Paul Hyland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781315505152
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 : Anonim
Publisher : Association of Research Libr
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Acquisition of foreign publications
ISBN : UOM:39015036864364
Author : Chinua Achebe
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1994-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385474542
“A true classic of world literature . . . A masterpiece that has inspired generations of writers in Nigeria, across Africa, and around the world.” —Barack Obama “African literature is incomplete and unthinkable without the works of Chinua Achebe.” —Toni Morrison Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Things Fall Apart is the first of three novels in Chinua Achebe's critically acclaimed African Trilogy. It is a classic narrative about Africa's cataclysmic encounter with Europe as it establishes a colonial presence on the continent. Told through the fictional experiences of Okonkwo, a wealthy and fearless Igbo warrior of Umuofia in the late 1800s, Things Fall Apart explores one man's futile resistance to the devaluing of his Igbo traditions by British political andreligious forces and his despair as his community capitulates to the powerful new order. With more than 20 million copies sold and translated into fifty-seven languages, Things Fall Apart provides one of the most illuminating and permanent monuments to African experience. Achebe does not only capture life in a pre-colonial African village, he conveys the tragedy of the loss of that world while broadening our understanding of our contemporary realities.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1084 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : South Africa
ISBN : UVA:X001308056
Author : Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : African fiction
ISBN : 1869144104
"The Rise of the African Novel is the first book to situate South African and African-language literature of the late 1880s through the early 1940s in relation to the literature of decolonization that spanned the 1950s through the 1980s, and the contemporary generation of established and emerging continental and diaspora African writers of international renown. Calling it a major crisis in African literary criticism, Mukoma Wa Ngugi considers key questions around the misreading of African literature: Why did Chinua Achebe's generation privilege African literature in English despite the early South African example? What are the costs of locating the start of Africa's literary tradition in the wrong literary and historical period? What does it mean for the current generation of writers and scholars of African literature not to have an imaginative consciousness of their literary past? While acknowledging the importance of Achebe's generation in the African literary tradition, Mukoma Wa Ngugi challenges that narrowing of the identities and languages of the African novel and writer. In restoring the missing foundational literary period to the African literary tradition, he shows how early South African literature, in both aesthetics and politics, is in conversation with the literature of the African independence era and contemporary rooted transnational literatures." --
Author : Fareda Banda
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509938360
This innovative book looks at the topic of migration through the prism of law and literature. The author uses a rich mix of novels, short stories, literary realism, human rights and comparative literature to explore the experiences of African migrants and asylum seekers. The book is divided into two. Part one is conceptual and focuses on art activism and the myriad ways in which people have sought to 'write justice.' Using Mazrui's diasporas of slavery and colonialism, it then considers histories of migration across the centuries before honing in on the recent anti-migration policies of western states. Achiume is used to show how these histories of imposition and exploitation create a bond which bestows on Africans a “status as co-sovereigns of the First World through citizenship.” The many fictional examples of the schemes used to gain entry are set against the formal legal processes. Attention is paid to life post-arrival which for asylum seekers may include periods in detention. The impact of the increased hostility of receiving states is examined in light of their human rights obligations. Consideration is paid to how Africans navigate their post-migration lives which includes reconciling themselves to status fracture-taking on jobs for which they are over-qualified, while simultaneously dealing with the resentment borne of status threat on the part of the citizenry. Part two moves from the general to consider the intersections of gender and status focusing on women, LGBTI individuals and children. Focusing on their human rights and the fictional literature, chapter four looks at women who have been trafficked as well as domestic workers and hotel maids while chapter five is on LGBTI people whose legal and literary stories are only now being told. The final substantive chapter considers the experiences of children who may arrive as unaccompanied minors. Using a mixture of poetry and first person accounts, the chapter examines the post-arrival lives of children, some of whom may be citizens but who are continually made to feel like outsiders. The conclusion follows, starting with two stories about walls by Hadero and Lanchester which are used to illustrate the themes discussed in the book. Few African lawyers write about literature and few books and articles in Western law and literature look at books by or about Africans, so a book that engages with both is long overdue. This book provides fascinating reading for academics, students of law, literature, gender and migration studies, and indeed the general public.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 836 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Africa
ISBN : UCAL:B4167086
Vol. 1- , spring 1970- , include "A Bibliography of American doctoral dissertations on African literature," compiled by Nancy J. Schmidt.
