Africa Beyond The Mirror
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Africa Beyond The Mirror
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Author : Boubacar Boris Diop
language : en
Publisher: Ayebia Clarke Publishing
Release Date : 2014
Africa Beyond The Mirror written by Boubacar Boris Diop and has been published by Ayebia Clarke Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with History categories.
Essays reflecting the point of view of an African intellectual expose the lies hiding behind clichés about Africa and growing racism against its people.
The African In The Mirror
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Author : Abimbola Lagunju
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2005-04
The African In The Mirror written by Abimbola Lagunju and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-04 with History categories.
The African in the Mirror takes us through the predicament of Black Africa from slavery times till the present day. It seeks to establish the cause of vulnerability of the African in his relationship with the outside world and his historical predisposition to self-inflicted catastrophes. The book analyses different diagnoses and solutions that have been proffered to African economic and political problems and proves the futility of these solutions. It propounds the theory of societal relational energy dynamics and seeks to explain the problems that Africa faces through its choice of distribution of this energy. It challenges black Africa to rise up to its historical responsibility to redeem itself and the black race.
African Migration And The Novel
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Author : Jack Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2024
African Migration And The Novel written by Jack Taylor and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024 with History categories.
This book "explores pressing social and political issues such as racial identity, environmental devastation, human trafficking, and political violence through the lens of novels of African migration. [It] details how authors such as Chika Unigwe, Chris Abani, Dinaw Mengestu, In Koli Jean Bofane, Boubacar Boris Diop, and others develop 'the migratory imagination': the creative means mobilized within their novels to expose the reader to contemporary social issues. Drawing on and synthesizing a multitude of theoretical frameworks including ecocriticism, postcolonial theory, genre studies, Black studies, paratextual reading, and political economy, the book argues for the flexibility of the migration novel as a genre"--
Handbook Of African Philosophy
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Author : Elvis Imafidon
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-09-30
Handbook Of African Philosophy written by Elvis Imafidon and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-30 with Philosophy categories.
This Handbook provides in one volume rich, comprehensive and rigorous coverage of specific subject areas and thematic concerns in the ever-evolving academic discipline of African philosophy. This Handbook is unique in its focus on central and emerging areas within African philosophy such as Afro-communitarian philosophy, ethics, epistemology, social and political philosophy, existentialism, philosophy of religion, gender philosophy, philosophy of education, phenomenology, transhumanism, African philosophy futures, and philosophy of the non-human. The thirty-two chapters in this Handbook explore the rich textual and non-textual forms of philosophical knowledge in Africa and adequately represent the broad and diverse scope of African philosophy, showing the richness and depth of the philosophical tradition. This reference work is indispensable to students and researchers in African philosophy, comparative philosophy and world philosophies.
Francophone African Narratives And The Anglo American Book Market
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Author : Vivan Steemers
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2021-03-01
Francophone African Narratives And The Anglo American Book Market written by Vivan Steemers and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
In recent years, the material circumstances governing the production of African literature have been analyzed from a variety of angles. This study goes one step further by charting the trajectories of a corpus of francophone African (sub-Saharan) narratives subsequently translated into English. It examines the role of various institutional agents and agencies—publishers, preface writers, critics, translators, and literary award committees—involved in the value-making process that accrues visibility to these texts that eventually reach the Anglo-American book market. The author evinces that over time different types of publishers dominated, both within the original publishing space as in the foreign literary field, contingent on their specific mission—be it commercial, ideological or educational—as well as on socioeconomic and political circumstances. The study addresses the influence of the editorial paratextual framing—pandering to specific Western readerships—the potential interventionist function of the translator, and the consecrating mechanisms of literary and translation awards affecting both gender and minority representation. Drawing on the work by key sociologists and translation theorists, the author uses an innovative interdisciplinary methodology to analyze the corpus narratives.
Rwanda Genocide Stories
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Author : Nicki Hitchcott
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2015-11-26
Rwanda Genocide Stories written by Nicki Hitchcott and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-26 with Literary Criticism categories.
A critical study of fictional responses by authors inside and outside Rwanda to the 1994 genocide.
Contemporary Francophone African Writers And The Burden Of Commitment
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Author : Odile Cazenave
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2011-02-02
Contemporary Francophone African Writers And The Burden Of Commitment written by Odile Cazenave and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
By looking at engagée literature from the recent past, when the francophone African writer was implicitly seen as imparted with a mission, to the present, when such authors usually aspire to be acknowledged primarily for their work as writers, Contemporary Francophone African Writers and the Burden of Commitment addresses the currrent processes of canonization in contemporary francophone African literature. Odile Cazenave and Patricia Célérier argue that aesthetic as well as political issues are now at the forefront of debates about the African literary canon, as writers and critics increasingly acknowledge the ideology of form. Working across genres but focusing on the novel, the authors take up the question of renewed forms of commitment in this literature. Their selected writers range from Mongo Beti, Ousmane Sembène, and Aminata Sow Fall to Boubacar Boris Diop, Véronique Tadjo, Alain Mabanckou, and Léonora Miano, among others.
Africa Beyond Inventions
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Author : Zubairu Wai
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
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Africa Beyond Inventions written by Zubairu Wai and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
Remapping African Literature
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Author : Olabode Ibironke
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-02-12
Remapping African Literature written by Olabode Ibironke and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book is an exploration of the material conditions of the production of African literature. Drawing on the archives of Heinemann’s African Writers Series, it highlights the procedures, relationships, demands, ideologies, and counterpressures engendered by the publication of three major authors: Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, and Ngugi wa Thiongo. As a study of the history and techniques of African literary texts, this book advances a theory of reciprocity of effects - what it terms 'auto-heteronomy' - to describe the dynamic of formalist activism by which texts anticipate and shape the forces of literary production in advance. It serves as a departure from the 'death of the author' thesis by reconsidering the role of the author in African literature and culture industry, as well as the influence of African publics on writers’ aesthetic choices, and on the overall processes of production. This work is a major contribution to African literary history, literary criticism, and book history.
The Mirror Of Beauty
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Author : Shamsur Rahman Faruqi
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2014-03-21
The Mirror Of Beauty written by Shamsur Rahman Faruqi and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-21 with Fiction categories.
It is the sunset of the Mughal Empire. The splendour of imperial Delhi flares one last time. The young daughter of a craftsman in the city elopes with an officer of the East India Company. And so we are drawn into the story of Wazir Khanam: a dazzlingly beautiful and fiercely independent woman who takes a series of lovers, including a Navab and a Mughal prince—and whom history remembers as the mother of the famous poet Dagh. But it is not just one life that this novel sets out to capture: it paints in rapturous detail an entire civilization. Beginning with the story of an enigmatic and gifted painter in a village near Kishangarh, The Mirror of Beauty embarks on an epic journey that sweeps through the death-giving deserts of Rajputana, the verdant valley of Kashmir and the glorious cosmopolis of Delhi, the craft of miniature painting and the art of carpet designing, scintillating musical performances and recurring paintings of mysterious, alluring women. Its scope breathtaking, its language beguiling, and its style sumptuous, this is a work of profound beauty, depth and power.