African Writing And Text


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African Writing And Text


African Writing And Text
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Author : Simon P. X. Battestini
language : en
Publisher: New York ; Ottawa : Legas
Release Date : 2000

African Writing And Text written by Simon P. X. Battestini and has been published by New York ; Ottawa : Legas this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with History categories.




African Textualities


African Textualities
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Author : Bernth Lindfors
language : en
Publisher: Africa World Press
Release Date : 1997

African Textualities written by Bernth Lindfors 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 1997 with African literature categories.


African literary texts can be approached in a variety of ways. They may be examined in isolation as verbal artifacts that have a unique integrity. They may be studied in relation to other texts that preceded and followed them. Or they may be seen against the backdrop of the times, traditions and circumstances that helped to shape them. In this book, all these approaches have been utilized, sometimes singly, sometimes in combination.



The Francophone African Text


The Francophone African Text
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Author : Kwaku Addae Gyasi
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2006

The Francophone African Text written by Kwaku Addae Gyasi and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Foreign Language Study categories.


Focusing on the African writer and the language of the former colonial power, The Francophone African Text: Translation and the Postcolonial Experience highlights the writer's re-appropriation of the foreign language in the creative writing process. It calls attention to the African writer's use of French, a process of creative translation in which the writer's words form a hybrid code that compels the original French to refer to the indigenous African language for meaning. Examining a group of works under the theme of translation, this book reveals that a consideration of both ideological and linguistic elements enhances understanding of the subject from the broader perspective of postcolonial discourse.



Ng G Wa Thiong O


Ng G Wa Thiong O
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Author : Charles Cantalupo
language : en
Publisher: Africa World Press
Release Date : 1995

Ng G Wa Thiong O written by Charles Cantalupo 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 1995 with Literary Criticism categories.


Ngugi wa Thiong'o: Texts and Contexts contains a generous sampling of this unprecedented historic event. Containing many of the conference's most distinguished critical discussions of Ngugi's this self-described 'unrepentant universalist' still rooted in his home of Kenya regardless of his exile. In Ngugi wa Thiong'o: Texts and Contexts, the book and the conference, as in The World of Ngugi wa Thiong'o, the text upon which the conference was built, Ngugi's work becomes a site of accumulation, like many forms of African sculpture.



African Literatures In English


African Literatures In English
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Author : Gareth Griffiths
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-09-19

African Literatures In English written by Gareth Griffiths and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-19 with Literary Criticism categories.


Here is an introduction to the history of English writing from East and West Africa drawing on a range of texts from the slave diaspora to the post-war upsurge in African English language and literature from these regions.



Print Text And Book Cultures In South Africa


Print Text And Book Cultures In South Africa
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Author : Andrew van der Vlies
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2012-09-01

Print Text And Book Cultures In South Africa written by Andrew van der Vlies and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.


An explanation of the unique role of the book and book collecting in South Africa due to the apartheid This book explores the power of print and the politics of the book in South Africa from a range of disciplinary perspectives- historical, bibliographic, literary-critical, sociological, and cultural studies. The essays collected here, by leading international scholars, address a range of topics as varied as: the role of print cultures in contests over the nature of the colonial public sphere in the nineteenth century; orthography; iimbongi, orature and the canon; book- collecting and libraries; print and transnationalism; Indian Ocean cosmopolitanisms; books in war; how the fates of South African texts, locally and globally, have been affected by their material instantiations; photocomics and other ephemera; censorship, during and after apartheid; books about art and books as art; local academic publishing; and the challenge of 'book history' for literary and cultural criticism in contemporary South Africa.



The African Palimpsest


The African Palimpsest
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Author : Chantal Zabus
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2007-01-01

The African Palimpsest written by Chantal Zabus and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.


Uniting a sense of the political dimensions of language appropriation with a serious, yet accessible linguistic terminology, The African Palimpsest examines the strategies of ‘indigenization’ whereby West African writers have made their literary English or French distinctively ‘African’. Through the apt metaphor of the palimpsest – a surface that has been written on, written over, partially erased and written over again – the book examines such well-known West African writers as Achebe, Armah, Ekwensi, Kourouma, Okara, Saro–Wiwa, Soyinka and Tutuola as well as lesser-known writers from francophone and anglophone Africa. Providing a great variety of case-studies in Nigerian Pidgin, Akan, Igbo, Maninka, Yoruba, Wolof and other African languages, the book also clarifies the vital interface between Europhone African writing and the new outlets for African artistic expression in (auto-)translation, broadcast television, radio and film.



Oral Literary Performance In Africa


Oral Literary Performance In Africa
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Author : Nduka Otiono
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-05-31

Oral Literary Performance In Africa written by Nduka Otiono and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-31 with Performing Arts categories.


This book delivers an admirably comprehensive and rigorous analysis of African oral literatures and performance. Gathering insights from distinguished scholars in the field, the book provides a range of contemporary interdisciplinary perspectives in the study of oral literature and its transformations in everyday life, fiction, poetry, popular culture, and postcolonial politics. Topics discussed include folklore and folklife; oral performance and masculinities; intermediated orality, modern transformations, and globalisation; orality and mass media; spoken word and imaginative writing. The book also addresses research methodologies and the thematic and theoretical trajectories of scholars of African oral literatures, looking back to the trailblazing legacies of Ruth Finnegan, Harold Scheub, and Isidore Okpewho. Ambitious in scope and incisive in its analysis, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of African literatures and oral performance as well as to general readers interested in the dynamics of cultural production.



The Pressures Of The Text


The Pressures Of The Text
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Author : Stewart Brown
language : en
Publisher: Centre of West African Studies University of Birmingham
Release Date : 1995

The Pressures Of The Text written by Stewart Brown and has been published by Centre of West African Studies University of Birmingham this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Literary Criticism categories.




Present Imperfect


Present Imperfect
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Author : Andrew van der Vlies
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017-05-19

Present Imperfect written by Andrew van der Vlies and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-19 with Literary Collections categories.


Present Imperfect asks how South African writers have responded to the end of apartheid, to the hopes that attended the birth of the 'new' nation in 1994, and to the inevitable disappointments that have followed. The first full-length study of affect in South Africa's literature, it understands 'disappointment' both as a description of bad feeling and as naming a missed appointment with all that was promised by the anti-colonial and anti-apartheid Struggle (a dis-appointment). Attending to contemporary writers' treatment of temporality, genre, and form, it considers a range of negative feelings that are also experiences of temporal disjuncture-including stasis, impasse, boredom, disaffection, and nostalgia. Present Imperfect offers close readings of work by a range of writers - some known to international Anglophone readers including J.M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, Ivan Vladislavic, and Zoë Wicomb, some slightly less well-known including Afrikaans-language novelists Marlene van Niekerk and Ingrid Winterbach, and others from a new generation including Songeziwe Mahlangu and Masande Ntshanga. It addresses key questions in South African studies about the evolving character of the historical period in which the country now finds itself. It is also alert to wider critical and theoretical conversations, looking outward to make a case for the place of South African writing in global conversations, and mobilizing readings of writing marked in various ways as 'South African' in order to complicate the contours of World Literature as category, discipline, and pedagogy. It is thus also a book about the discontents of neoliberalism, the political energies of reading, and the fates of literature in our troubled present.