Childhood In Contemporary Diasporic African Literature
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Childhood In Contemporary Diasporic African Literature
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Author : Christopher E. W. Ouma
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-02-27
Childhood In Contemporary Diasporic African Literature written by Christopher E. W. Ouma and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-27 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book examines the representation of figures, memories and images of childhood in selected contemporary diasporic African fiction by Adichie, Abani, Wainaina and Oyeyemi. The book argues that childhood is a key framework for thinking about contemporary African and African Diasporic identities. It argues that through the privileging of childhood memory, alternative conceptions of time emerge in this literature, and which allow African writers to re-imagine what family, ethnicity, nation means within the new spaces of diaspora that a majority of them occupy. The book therefore looks at the connections between childhood, space, time and memory, childhood gender and sexuality, childhoods in contexts of war, as well as migrant childhoods. These dimensions of childhood particularly relate to the return of the memory of Biafra, the figures of child soldiers, memories of growing up in Cold War Africa, queer boyhoods/sonhood as well as experiences of migration within Africa, North America and Europe.
Childhood In African Literature
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Author : Eldred Durosimi Jones
language : en
Publisher: James Currey Publishers
Release Date : 1998
Childhood In African Literature written by Eldred Durosimi Jones and has been published by James Currey Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with African literature categories.
The experience of childhood as examined in the works of African writers.
Foundational African Writers
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Author : Bhekizizwe Peterson
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2022-06
Foundational African Writers written by Bhekizizwe Peterson and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06 with Literary Criticism categories.
The essays in this collection were written in celebration of the centenaries, in 2019, of Peter Abrahams, Noni Jabavu, Sibusiso Cyril Lincoln Nyembezi and Es'kia Mphahlele, all of whom were born in 1919. All four centenarians lived rich and diverse lives across several continents. In the years following the Second World War they produced more than half a century of foundational creative writing and literary criticism, and made stellar contributions to the founding and enhancement of institutions and repertoires of African and black arts and letters in South Africa and internationally. As a result, their lifeworlds and oeuvres present sharp and multifaceted engagements with and generative insights into a wide range of issues, including precolonial existence, colonialism, empire, race, culture, identity, class, the language question, tradition, modernity, exile, Pan-Africanism, and decolonisation.
Representing Africa In Children S Literature
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Author : Vivian Yenika-Agbaw
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2007-12-13
Representing Africa In Children S Literature written by Vivian Yenika-Agbaw and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
Representing Africa in Children’s Literature explores how African and Western authors portray youth in contemporary African societies, critically examining the dominant images of Africa and Africans in books published between 1960 and 2005. The book focuses on contemporary children’s and young adult literature set in Africa, examining issues regarding colonialism, the politics of representation, and the challenges posed to both "insiders" and "outsiders" writing about Africa for children.
Neo Imperialism In Children S Literature About Africa
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Author : Yulisa Amadu Maddy
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2008-12-28
Neo Imperialism In Children S Literature About Africa written by Yulisa Amadu Maddy and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-12-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
In the spirit of their last collaboration, Apartheid and Racism in South African Children's Literature, 1985-1995, Yulisa Amadu Maddy and Donnarae MacCann once again come together to expose the neo-imperialist overtones of contemporary children's fiction about Africa. Examining the portrayal of African social customs, religious philosophies, and political structures in fiction for young people, Maddy and MacCann reveal the Western biases that often infuse stories by well-known Western authors. In the book's introductory section, Maddy and MacCann offer historical information concerning Western notions of Africa as "primitive," and then present background information about the complexity of feminism in Africa and about the ongoing institutionalization of racism. The main body of the study contains critiques of the novels or short stories of eleven well-known writers, including Isabel Allende and Nancy Farmer--all demonstrating that children's literature continues to mis-represent conditions and social relations in Africa. The study concludes with a look at those short stories of Beverley Naidoo which bring insight and historical accuracy to South African conflicts and emerging solutions. Educators, literature professors, publishers, professors of Diaspora and African studies, and students of the mass media will find Maddy and MacCann’s critique of racism in the representation of Africa to be indispensible to students of multicultural literature.
New Perspectives On African Childhood
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Author : De-Valera NYM Botchway
language : en
Publisher: Vernon Press
Release Date : 2019-09-05
New Perspectives On African Childhood written by De-Valera NYM Botchway and has been published by Vernon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-05 with Social Science categories.
What does it mean to be a child in Africa? In the detached Western media, narratives of penury, wickedness and death have dominated portrayals of African childhood. The hegemonic lens of the West has failed to take into account the intricacies of not only what it means to be an African child in local and culturally specific contexts, but also African childhood in general. Challenging colonial discourses, this edited volume guides the reader through different comprehensions and perspectives of childhood in Africa. Using a blend of theory, empiricism and history, the contributors to this volume offer studies from a range of fields including African literature, Afro-centric psychology and sociology. Importantly, in its eclectic geographical coverage of Africa, this book unashamedly presents the good, the bad and the ugly of African childhood. The resilience, creativity, pains and triumphs of African childhood are skilfully woven together to present the myriad of lived experiences and aspirations of children from across Africa. As an important contribution to African childhood studies, this book has the potential to be used by policymakers to shape, sustain or change socio-cultural, economic and education systems that accommodate African childhood dynamics and experiences at different levels.
The Routledge Handbook Of The New African Diasporic Literature
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Author : Lokangaka Losambe
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2024-05-16
The Routledge Handbook Of The New African Diasporic Literature written by Lokangaka Losambe and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-16 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Routledge Handbook of the New African Diasporic Literature introduces world literature readers to the transnational, multivocal writings of immigrant African authors. Covering works produced in Europe, North America, and elsewhere in the world, this book investigates three major aesthetic paradigms in African diasporic literature: the Sankofan wave (late 1960s–early 1990s); the Janusian wave (1990s–2020s); and the Offshoots of the New Arrivants (those born and growing up outside Africa). Written by well-established and emerging scholars of African and diasporic literatures from across the world, the chapters in the book cover the works of well-known and not-so-well-known Anglophone, Francophone, and Lusophone writers from different theoretical positionalities and critical approaches, pointing out the unique innovative artistic qualities of this major subgenre of African literature. The focus on the “diasporic consciousness” of the writers and their works sets this handbook apart from others that solely emphasize migration, which is more of a process than the community of settled African people involved in the dynamic acts of living reflected in diasporic writings. This book will appeal to researchers and students from across the fields of Literature, Diaspora Studies, African Studies, Migration Studies, and Postcolonial Studies.
Reading From The South
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Author : Charne Lavery
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2023-08
Reading From The South written by Charne Lavery and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Draws together reflective and analytical essays by renowned intellectuals from around the world who critically engage with the work of one of the global South s leading scholars of African print cultures and the oceanic humanities, Isabel Hofmeyr.
Counter Discourse In African Literature
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Author : Ce, Chin
language : en
Publisher: Handel Books
Release Date : 2014-04-03
Counter Discourse In African Literature written by Ce, Chin and has been published by Handel Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-03 with Literary Criticism categories.
This volume charts the widening frontiers of black literary aesthetics using the prose and dramatic fictions of writers from Africa and the African diaspora. The chapters come in two interactive phases of current critical discourses involving rejoinders from past-present concerns and issues of cultural and contemporary modernity. These studies stress the argument that African literature is hardly discussed outside contemporary history and that the reason for the apparent disconnection among groups in Africa and the diaspora can be traced to the disparate elements within the continent and diaspora.
Diaspora Returns In Fiction
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Author : Helen Cousins
language : en
Publisher: James Currey is
Release Date : 2016
Diaspora Returns In Fiction written by Helen Cousins and has been published by James Currey is this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Literary Criticism categories.
Imagined or actual returns to a "homeland" in African literature are examined in relation to changing concepts of identity, belonging, migration and space.