African Novels And The Question Of Orality
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African Novels And The Question Of Orality
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Author : Eileen Julien
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992-07-22
African Novels And The Question Of Orality written by Eileen Julien and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-07-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
This genre lends itself to sophisticated experimentation in political discourse. Sony Labou Tansi's La Vie et demie (1979) and Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Devil on the Cross (1982) caricature the puerile representatives of political and economic power through grotesque physical appetites and bodily deformations.
Oral Tradition In African Literature
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Author : Chin Ce
language : en
Publisher: African Books Collective
Release Date : 2015-09-04
Oral Tradition In African Literature written by Chin Ce 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 2015-09-04 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
African Women S Literature Orature And Intertextuality
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Author : Susan Arndt
language : en
Publisher: Humboldt University of Berlin
Release Date : 1998
African Women S Literature Orature And Intertextuality written by Susan Arndt and has been published by Humboldt University of Berlin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Literary Criticism categories.
Oral Literature In Africa
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Author : Ruth Finnegan
language : en
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Release Date : 2012-09
Oral Literature In Africa written by Ruth Finnegan and has been published by Open Book Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09 with Social Science categories.
Ruth Finnegan's Oral Literature in Africa was first published in 1970, and since then has been widely praised as one of the most important books in its field. Based on years of fieldwork, the study traces the history of storytelling across the continent of Africa. This revised edition makes Finnegan's ground-breaking research available to the next generation of scholars. It includes a new introduction, additional images and an updated bibliography, as well as its original chapters on poetry, prose, "drum language" and drama, and an overview of the social, linguistic and historical background of oral literature in Africa. This book is the first volume in the World Oral Literature Series, an ongoing collaboration between OBP and World Oral Literature Project. A free online archive of recordings and photographs that Finnegan made during her fieldwork in the late 1960s is hosted by the World Oral Literature Project (http: //www.oralliterature.org/collections/rfinnegan001.html) and can also be accessed from publisher's website.
Ngugi And African Post Colonial Narrative
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Author : Fidelis Odun Balogun
language : en
Publisher: St-Hyacinthe, Quebec : World Heritage Press
Release Date : 1997
Ngugi And African Post Colonial Narrative written by Fidelis Odun Balogun and has been published by St-Hyacinthe, Quebec : World Heritage Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Literary Criticism categories.
Imagining Insiders
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Author : Mineke Schipper
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 1999-08-01
Imagining Insiders written by Mineke Schipper and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-08-01 with Political Science categories.
This study surveys a wide range of writings and ideas out of Africa by people of African descent on the various ways in which "insiders" and "outsiders", "self" and "otherness" have been imagined and defined from African perspectives. Attention is focused on identity issues regarding Africa, Panafricanism, American Black culture, Negritude and Black Consciousness, as well as on whiteness and otherness, black versus white cultures and gender matters in a racialized context. Some theoretical issues in the academic debate on insiders and intercultural dialogue are also discussed, with examples from various disciplines. Five interviews with leading writers conclude the book.
An Introduction To The African Prose Narrative
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Author : Lokangaka Losambe
language : en
Publisher: Africa World Press
Release Date : 2004
An Introduction To The African Prose Narrative written by Lokangaka Losambe 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 2004 with Literary Criticism categories.
This collection of essays introduces students of African literature to the heritage of the African prose narrative, starting from its oral base and covering its linguistic and cultural diversity. The book brings together essays on both the classics and the relatively new works in all subgenres of the African prose narrative, including the traditional epic, the novel, the short story and the autobiography. The chapters are arranged according to the respective thematic paradigms under which the discussed works fall.
The Cambridge Companion To The African Novel
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Author : F. Abiola Irele
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2009-07-23
The Cambridge Companion To The African Novel written by F. Abiola Irele and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-23 with Literary Criticism categories.
Africa's strong tradition of storytelling has long been an expression of an oral narrative culture. African writers such as Amos Tutuola, Naguib Mahfouz, Wole Soyinka and J. M. Coetzee have adapted these older forms to develop and enhance the genre of the novel, in a shift from the oral mode to print. Comprehensive in scope, these new essays cover the fiction in the European languages from North Africa and Africa south of the Sahara, as well as in Arabic. They highlight the themes and styles of the African novel through an examination of the works that have either attained canonical status - an entire chapter is devoted to the work of Chinua Achebe - or can be expected to do so. Including a guide to further reading and a chronology, this is the ideal starting-point for students of African and world literatures.
A Companion To African Literatures
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Author : Olakunle George
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2021-03-22
A Companion To African Literatures written by Olakunle George and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
Rediscover the diversity of modern African literatures with this authoritative resource edited by a leader in the field How have African literatures unfolded in their rich diversity in our modern era of decolonization, nationalisms, and extensive transnational movement of peoples? How have African writers engaged urgent questions regarding race, nation, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality? And how do African literary genres interrelate with traditional oral forms or audio-visual and digital media? A Companion to African Literatures addresses these issues and many more. Consisting of essays by distinguished scholars and emerging leaders in the field, this book offers rigorous, deeply engaging discussions of African literatures on the continent and in diaspora. It covers the four main geographical regions (East and Central Africa, North Africa, Southern Africa, and West Africa), presenting ample material to learn from and think with. A Companion To African Literatures is divided into five parts. The first four cover different regions of the continent, while the fifth part considers conceptual issues and newer directions of inquiry. Chapters focus on literatures in European languages officially used in Africa -- English, French, and Portuguese -- as well as homegrown African languages: Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Swahili, and Yoruba. With its lineup of lucid and authoritative analyses, readers will find in A Companion to African Literatures a distinctive, rewarding academic resource. Perfect for undergraduate and graduate students in literary studies programs with an African focus, A Companion to African Literatures will also earn a place in the libraries of teachers, researchers, and professors who wish to strengthen their background in the study of African literatures.
The Politics Of Translating Sound Motifs In African Fiction
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Author : Laurence Jay-Rayon Ibrahim Aibo
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2020-02-15
The Politics Of Translating Sound Motifs In African Fiction written by Laurence Jay-Rayon Ibrahim Aibo and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Starting with the premise that aesthetic choices reveal the ideological stances of translators, the author of this research monograph examines works of fiction by postcolonial African authors writing in English or French, the genesis and reception of their works, and the translation of each one into French or English. Texts include those by Nuruddin Farah from Somalia, Abdourahman Ali Waberi from Djibouti, Jean-Marie Adiaffi from Côte d’Ivoire, Ayi Kwei Armah from Ghana, Chenjerai Hove from Zimbabwe, and Assia Djebar from Algeria, and their translations by Jacqueline Bardolph, Jeanne Garane, Brigitte Katiyo, Jean-Pierre Richard, Josette and Robert Mane, and Dorothy Blair. The author highlights the aural poetics of these works, explores the sound motifs underlying their literary power, and shows how each is articulated with the writer’s literary heritage. She then embarks on a close examination of each translator’s background, followed by a rich analysis of their treatments of sound. The translators’ strategies for addressing sound motifs are contextualized in the larger framework of postcolonial literatures and changing reading materialities.