Contemporary African Literature


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Contemporary African Fiction


Contemporary African Fiction
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Author : Derek Wright
language : en
Publisher: Bayreuth African Studies
Release Date : 1997

Contemporary African Fiction written by Derek Wright and has been published by Bayreuth African Studies this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Literary Criticism categories.




Contemporary African Literature And The Politics Of Gender


Contemporary African Literature And The Politics Of Gender
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Author : Florence Stratton
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-09-23

Contemporary African Literature And The Politics Of Gender written by Florence Stratton and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-23 with Literary Collections categories.


The influence of colonialism and race on the development of African literature has been the subject of a number of studies. The effect of patriarchy and gender, however, and indeed the contributions of African women, have up until now been largely ignored by the critics. Contemporary African Literature and the Politics of Gender is the first extensive account of African literature from a feminist perspective. In this first radical and exciting work Florence Stratton outlines the features of an emerging female tradition in African fiction. A chapter is dedicated to each to the works of four women writers: Grace Ogot, Flora Nwapa, Buchi Emecheta and Mariama Ba. In addition she provides challenging new readings of canonical male authors such as Chinua Achebe, Ngugi wa Thiongo'o and Wole Soyinka. Contemporary African Literature and the Politics of Gender thus provides the first truly comprehensive definition of the current literary tradition in Africa.



Reading Contemporary African Literature


Reading Contemporary African Literature
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Author : Reuben Makayiko Chirambo
language : en
Publisher: Rodopi
Release Date : 2013

Reading Contemporary African Literature written by Reuben Makayiko Chirambo and has been published by Rodopi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with History categories.


Reading Contemporary African Literature brings together scholarship on, critical debates about, and examples of reading African literature in all genres – poetry, fiction, and drama including popular culture. The anthology offers studies of African literature from interdisciplinary perspectives that employ sociological, historical, and ethnographic besides literary analysis of the literatures. It has assembled critical and researched essays on a range of topics, theoretical and empirical, by renowned critics and theorists of African literature that evaluate and provide examples of reading African literature that should be of interest to academics, researchers, and students of African literature, culture, and history amongst other subjects. Some of the essays examine authors that have received little or no attention to date in books on recent African literature. These essays provide new insights and scholarship that should broaden and deepen our understanding and appreciation of African literature.



Contemporary African Literature


Contemporary African Literature
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Author : Tanure Ojaide
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012

Contemporary African Literature written by Tanure Ojaide and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with African literature categories.


Contemporary African Literature: New Approaches comprises essays that go beyond conventional literary studies to open new vistas for critical excursion. It deals not only with purely literary issues of canonization, language, aesthetics, and scholar-poet traditions that have barely been addressed directly in recent studies but also with diverse interdisciplinary topics in literature as of migration, globalization, environmental and human rights, and gender. Written from his scholar-poet position, Tanure Ojaide's essays address pertinent issues that need to be either examined or reexamined in the current condition of Africa in the age of globalization and democratization. The collection of essays also brings literature to bear on issues that have become new concerns for writers and the general African populace. It widens the scope of the African experience in literature as never before. This book is part of the African World Series, edited by Toyin Falola, Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities, University of Texas at Austin. "This book is a worthy read, and its panoramic view will leave any reader familiar with African literature, especially in the areas of poetry and fiction, with ample cause to appreciate Tanure Ojaide's literary foresight and the merits of his scholarship." -- World Literature Today



Contemporary African Literature In English


Contemporary African Literature In English
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Author : M. Krishnan
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-03-20

Contemporary African Literature In English written by M. Krishnan and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-20 with Literary Criticism categories.


Contemporary African Literature in English explores the contours of representation in contemporary Anglophone African literature, drawing on a wide range of authors including Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Aminatta Forna, Brian Chikwava, Ngug? wa Thiong'o, Nuruddin Farah and Chris Abani.



Contemporary African Literature


Contemporary African Literature
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Author : Edris Makward
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972

Contemporary African Literature written by Edris Makward and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with Literary Collections categories.




Intertextuality In Contemporary African Literature


Intertextuality In Contemporary African Literature
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Author : Ode Ogede
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2011-09-16

Intertextuality In Contemporary African Literature written by Ode Ogede and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-16 with Literary Criticism categories.


Intellectual exchange among African creative writers is the subject of this highly innovative and wide-ranging look at several forms of intertextuality on the continent. Focusing on the issue of the availability of old canonical texts of African literature as a creative resource, this study throws light on how African authors adapt, reinterpret, and redeploy existing texts in the formulation of new ones. Contemporary African writers are taking advantage of and extending the resources available in the existing native literary tradition. But the field of inter-ethnic/trans-national African literary inter-textual studies is a novel one in itself as the theme of African writers' debt to Euro-American authors has been the critical commonplace in African literature. Detailing the echoes and reverberations the voices of the past have generated, and the distinctive uses to which the writers are putting one another's works, the book demonstrates that the influence of local stock is significant: it is pervasive andwidespread, and manifests itself in ways both random and systematic, but it is a ubiquitous presence in the African literary imagination.



Visions Of Womanhood In Contemporary African Literature


Visions Of Womanhood In Contemporary African Literature
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Author : Blessing Diala-Ogamba
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2021-09-28

Visions Of Womanhood In Contemporary African Literature written by Blessing Diala-Ogamba and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-28 with Literary Criticism categories.


Through an analysis of historical and contemporary literature, Visions of Womanhood in Contemporary African Literature argues that African women were not relegated to the background in African society until after colonization. Blessing Diala-Ogamba analyzes the history of women’s roles in African society through oral stories and biographies to show how colonialization worked to oppress women in Africa and explores the ways contemporary African literature confronts and works to overcome its colonial past. Using works by authors such as Akachi Adimora Ezeigbo, Lilian Masitera, Nawal El Sadaawi, Lauretta Ncgobo, Sembene Ousmane, and many others, Diala-Ogamba reveals the consistent progression of women and their roles in African novels and society.



Writers And Social Thought In Africa


Writers And Social Thought In Africa
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Author : Wale Adebanwi
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-10-02

Writers And Social Thought In Africa written by Wale Adebanwi and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-02 with Literary Criticism categories.


Social theory and social theorizing about Africa has largely ignored African literature. However, because writers are some of the continent’s finest social thinkers, they have produced – and continue to produce – works which constitute potential sources for the analysis of social thought, and for constructing social theory, in and beyond the continent. This comprehensive collection examines the relationship between African literature and African social thought. It explores the evolution and aesthetics of social thought in African fiction, and African writers’ conceptions of power and authority, legitimacy, history and modernity, gender and sexuality, culture, epistemology, globalization, and change and continuity in Africa. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Contemporary African Studies.



Towards African Literary Independence


Towards African Literary Independence
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Author : Phanuel Egejuru
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 1980-12-05

Towards African Literary Independence written by Phanuel Egejuru and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980-12-05 with Literary Criticism categories.