African Literature In Its Social And Political Dimensions
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African Literature In Its Social And Political Dimensions
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Author : African Literature Association. Meeting
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
African Literature In Its Social And Political Dimensions written by African Literature Association. Meeting and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Literary Criticism categories.
African Literature In Its Social And Political Dimensions
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Author : African Literature Association. Meeting
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
African Literature In Its Social And Political Dimensions written by African Literature Association. Meeting and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Literary Criticism categories.
Mapping Intersections
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Author : African Literature Association. Meeting
language : en
Publisher: Africa World Press
Release Date : 1998
Mapping Intersections written by African Literature Association. Meeting and has been published by Africa World Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with African literature categories.
This book takes on the challenge: What roles can and should African literature play in Africa's development? From a variety of critical stances and perspectives, the concepts of "literature" and of "development" are theorized, to include and extend beyond inherited concepts and boundaries in the Humanities and the Social Sciences, and thus, to engage peoples' everyday life experiences. Approaches to the question of Africa's literature and its development range from African feminism or feminist practices, to the economics and politics of public access to knowledge, information and literature, to communication networks and use of African languages in national education policies. Twenty essays constitute the volume's four parts which focus on: -- Diverse conceptualizations of African literature and development -- Critical studies of specific writers' works, linking their artistic development with issues and events of social or political development -- A philosophical consideration of the development's relationship to literature -- Models of activist pedagogy in African literature The structure of this volume is encompassed by two roundtable transcriptions with writers and critics for whom African literature and Africa's development is part of a larger struggle to create new space in which to thrive and envision new life, inside and outside the academy.
Society Women And Literature In Africa
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Author : Orabueze, Florence Onyebuchi
language : en
Publisher: M & J Grand Orbit Communications
Release Date : 2016-03-07
Society Women And Literature In Africa written by Orabueze, Florence Onyebuchi and has been published by M & J Grand Orbit Communications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-07 with Literary Criticism categories.
Society, Women and Literature in Africa explores the ideological, literary, political, cultural and ethical issues related to feminist writing. She discusses how contemporary African writers have tried to counteract men’s false assumptions about sex, love, society, fecundity and womanhood, and further details how African writers have responded to the demands of feminism. “Woman’s Cross Cultural Burden in the selected works of West African Female writers” explores the recurrent themes of motherhood, polygamy, abandonment and widowhood in the works of Nwapa, Emecheta, Alkali, Aidoo and Mariama Bâ. In “Prostitution: A Metaphor for the Degradation of Womanhood in Bode Osanyin’s the Noble Mistress”, the author approaches the subject of woman degradation in society from the perspectives of comprehensive research and an in-depth referencing. “Gendered Social Division of Labour in the African Novel” explores the theme of unfairness, of institutionalized differentiation in the African novel. It reveals the total emasculation of woman in patriarchy and her desire to be liberated from male-annexation. “The Prison World of Nigeria Woman: Female Reticence in Sefi Attah’s “Everything Good Will Come”, the author explores the dimensions of “gender silences”. She shows how woman’s voice has been stolen in patriarchy, thus rendering her a social and political mutant. “Womanhood as a Metaphor for Sexual Slavery in Nawal El Saddawi’s Woman at Point Zero” underscores that in patriarchy a woman is educated to make an object of herself for male pleasure. She is excluded from politics as a result of religion. “The Ugly Face of Ghana in the New Millennium: Alienation of Children in Amma Darko’s Faceless” is a stylistic study of the consequences of globalization in postindependent Ghana. In “The Theme of Dispossession in A.N Akwanya’s the Pilgrim Foot”, the author examines the myriad perspectives of dispossession and the dispossessor.
Themes In African Social And Political Thought
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Author : Onigu Otite
language : en
Publisher: Fourth Dimension Publishing Company
Release Date : 1978
Themes In African Social And Political Thought written by Onigu Otite and has been published by Fourth Dimension Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with History categories.
There can be no better time to revive the major strands of social and political thought about Africa in the nineteeth and twentieth centuries than now; given the consensus of opinion that over the last two decades African societies, and policies relating to the continent have largely failed. This book, illustrates that failures in Africa are not for a lack of ideas and arguments, or intellectual life. At the very least, it is a document of the rich history of ideas about the continent, by some of its most influential thinkers. The collection includes pieces on major African leaders/thinkers - Sekou Toure, Blydeen Awolowo and Nkrumah; and contributions by leaders themselves e.g. Nyerere on the process of liberation, and relative concepts of freedom. The other essays are by major intellectuals on currents and periods in social thought and intellectual history, such as Mazui on questions of (pan) - African indentities, on Africanness and colonialism, and African socialism.
African Philosophy
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Author : Wilfred Lajul
language : en
Publisher: African Books Collective
Release Date : 2013-12-29
African Philosophy written by Wilfred Lajul and has been published by African Books Collective this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-29 with Philosophy categories.
African philosophy has for long been rejected on the basis that it is not known, or has not been written down. Behind this view is the idealist presumption that for something to exist, it must first be perceived. However, for something to be perceived, it must first exist. African Philosophy: Critical Dimensions examines what constitutes African philosophy in terms of its meaning, foundation, sources, methodology, characteristics, and relevance. The book analyses traditional African philosophy from the political, social, ethical, epistemological and metaphysical angles. The book further critically discusses modern African political philosophy, modern African social philosophy, modern African economic philosophy, and modern African philosophy of religion. It ends with the identification of the different conclusions that were derived from the study and general recommendations, some specifically for researchers and writers, especially in the area of African philosophy. Wilfred Lajul joins other authentic voices examining African Philosophy.
Interdisciplinary Dimensions Of African Literature
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Author : African Literature Association. Meeting
language : en
Publisher: Three Continents
Release Date : 1985
Interdisciplinary Dimensions Of African Literature written by African Literature Association. Meeting and has been published by Three Continents this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Politics Of M Othering
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Author : Obioma Nnaemeka
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2005-08-04
The Politics Of M Othering written by Obioma Nnaemeka and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-08-04 with Philosophy categories.
This collection is a study of African literature framed by the central, and multi-faceted, idea of 'mother' - motherland, mothertongue, motherwit, motherhood, mothering - looking at the paradoxical location of (m)other as both central and marginal. Whilst the volume stands as a sustained feminist analysis, it engages feminist theory itself by showing how issues in feminism are, in African literature, recast in different and complex ways.
Politics Social Justice
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Author : Ernest Emenyo̲nu
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Release Date : 2014
Politics Social Justice written by Ernest Emenyo̲nu and has been published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Literary Criticism categories.
This special issue focuses on literary texts by African writers in which the protagonist returns to his/her 'original' or ancestral 'home' in Africa from other parts of the world. Ideas of return - intentional and actual - have been a consistent feature of the literature of Africa and the African diaspora: from Equiano's autobiography in 1789 to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's 2013 novel 'Americanah'. African literature has represented returnees in a range of locations and dislocations including having a sense of belonging, being alienated in a country they can no longer recognize, or experiencing a multiple sense of place. Contributors, writing on literature from the 1970s to the present, examine the extent to which the original place can be reclaimed with or without renegotiations of 'home'. Articles on Nuruddin Farah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Pede Hollist, Ayi Kwei Amah, Dinaw Mengestu, Benjamin Kwakye. Interview with Tendai Huchu. Featured Articles by Bernth Lindfors, Eustace Palmer & Helen Chukwuma. Literary supplement : four poems by Tsitsi Ella Jaji .
African Politics And Ethics
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Author : Munyaradzi Felix Murove
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-10-06
African Politics And Ethics written by Munyaradzi Felix Murove and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-06 with Philosophy categories.
In this book, Munyaradzi Felix Murove explores African traditional ethical resources for African politics. Arguing that African ethics is integral to African post-colonial political contentious discourse, Murove invites the reader to reflect on various problematic political issues in post-colonial Africa and how African ethics has been applied in these situations. Starting with a succinct discussion of the scope of African ethics, he discusses how African ethical values have been applied by post-colonial politicians in the reconstruction of their societies. Further, Murove looks critically at the issue of African poverty and how the ethic of regional integration and economic cooperation among post-colonial African nation-states has been instrumental to efforts aimed at overcoming the scourge of poverty. The main question this book seeks to answer is: Are African traditional ethical values a panacea to modern African political problems?