Counter Narrative And Ambivalent Discourse Toward Christianity In African Postcolonial Literature
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Counter Narrative And Ambivalent Discourse Toward Christianity In African Postcolonial Literature
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Author : Tatang Iskarna
language : en
Publisher: Sanata Dharma University Press
Release Date : 2023-05-02
Counter Narrative And Ambivalent Discourse Toward Christianity In African Postcolonial Literature written by Tatang Iskarna and has been published by Sanata Dharma University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-02 with Literary Collections categories.
The book Counter-narrative and Ambivalent Discourse towards Christianity in African Postcolonial Literature explores the encounters and conflicts between Christianity and African traditional culture represented in three African postcolonial literature: Achebe's Arrow of God, Thiong'o's The River Between, and p'Bitek's Song of Lawino. Using postcolonial perspective, this book reveals a counter-narrative discourse against the arrival of Christianity in the three African postcolonial literary works and highlights the ambivalent nature of this resistance, as the authors cannot escape the trap of conformity to Chtistianity and Western hegemony. Christianity, as a missionary and culturally-destructive religion in postcolonial Africa, is considered complex religion that can have both positive and negative effects on traditional African societies. While it can be a ideological tool of colonialism that destabilizes the fabric of local life, it also provides solutions to some local problems. This new religious belief disrupts the social structure and cultural traditional in the context of African postcolonial society.
Christianity And The African Counter Discourse In Achebe And Beti
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Author : Ali Yiğit
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2024-05-15
Christianity And The African Counter Discourse In Achebe And Beti written by Ali Yiğit and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Christianity and the African Counter-Discourse in Achebe and Beti: Cultures in Dialogue, Contest and Conflict intervenes, in light of African literary products, the history of Christianity in Africa in late 19th and early 20th centuries, goes beyond the existing clichés about the operations of the European Christian missionaries whether Protestant or Catholic in Africa, and opens alternative ways to read the chain of missionary-native African, and missionary-European colonists relationships. Christian missionaries did not come to Africa for: their own interests, the Christianization of Africa, European colonial projects, the interests of Africans, the establishment of European civilization in Africa, but came for all. Once, there was a dialogue between the Christian missionaries and pagan Africans which was in time replaced by contest for superiority, and finally by conflict. Accordingly, the countenance of the continent has changed forever.
A Postcolonial Reading Of Mark S Story Of Jesus
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Author : Simon Samuel
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2007-04-18
A Postcolonial Reading Of Mark S Story Of Jesus written by Simon Samuel and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-04-18 with Religion categories.
This unique contribution to Markan studies reads Mark's story of Jesus from a postcolonial perspective. It proposes that Mark need not necessarily be treated in an oversimplified polarity as an anti- or pro-colonial discourse. Instead it may be treated as a postcolonial discourse, i.e. as a hybrid discourse that accommodates and disrupts both the native Jewish and the Roman colonial discourses of power. It shows that Mark accommodates itself into a strategic third space in between the variegated native Jewish and the Roman colonial discourses in order to enunciate its own voice. As an ambivalent and hybrid discourse it mimics and mocks, accommodates and disrupts both the Jewish as well as the Roman colonial voices. The portrait of Jesus in Mark, which Samuel shows to be encoding also the portrait of a community, exhibits a colonial/ postcolonial conundrum which can neither be damned as pro- nor be praised as anti-colonial in nature. Instead the portrait of Jesus in Mark may be appreciated as a strategic essentialist and transcultural hybrid, in which the claims of difference and the desire for transculturality are both contradictorily present and visible. In showing such a portrait and invoking a complex discursive strategy Mark as the discourse of a subject community is not alone or unique in the Graeco-Roman world. A number of discourses-historical, creative novelistic and apocalyptic-of the subject Greek and Jewish communities in the eastern Mediterranean under the imperium of Rome from the second century BCE to the end of the first century CE exhibit very similar postcolonial traits which one may add to be not far from the postcolonial traits of a number of postcolonial creative writings and cultural discourses of the colonial subject and the dominated post-colonial communities of our time.
Christianity And The African Counter Discourse In Achebe And Beti
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Author : Ali Yiğit (English literature scholar)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2024
Christianity And The African Counter Discourse In Achebe And Beti written by Ali Yiğit (English literature scholar) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024 with Achebe, Chinua categories.
"Christianity and the African Counter-Discourse in Achebe and Beti: Cultures in Dialogue, Contest and Conflict intervenes, in light of African literary products, the history of Christianity in Africa in late 19th and early 20th centuries, goes beyond the existing clichés about the operations of the European Christian missionaries whether Protestant or Catholic in Africa, and opens alternative ways to read the chain of missionary-native African, and missionary-European colonists relationships. Christian missionaries did not come to Africa for: their own interests, the Christianization of Africa, European colonial projects, the interests of Africans, the establishment of European civilization in Africa, but came for all. Once, there was a dialogue between the Christian missionaries and pagan Africans which was in time replaced by contest for superiority, and finally by conflict. Accordingly, the countenance of the continent has changed forever"--
Post Colonial African Literature And Counter Discourse
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language : en
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Post Colonial African Literature And Counter Discourse written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
The African novel occupies a central position in the criticism of colonial portrayal of the African continent and her people. [...] What is primary on his mind and central to his work is the urge to put the record straight and illuminate the threshold between past and present, thought and action, self and Other, and Africa and the world. [...] It is on the basis of the foregoing background that in this paper I propose to examine how post-colonial African novelists use their novels to facilitate the transgression of boundaries and subversion of hegemonic rigidities previously mapped out in precursor literary canonical texts about Africa and her people. [...] In Robinson Crusoe, Defoe leaps into the realm of ignorance about Africa and Africans, conceiving the terrain of the continent as peopled with cannibals, heathenism and rustic specimens in a primordial state of existence, and whose only knowledge of the spoken language is a chain of gibberish utterances. [...] In summary, the paper attempts to look at Coetzee, an African novelist who occupies a distinguished place at the very apex of the emerging counter-canon in African fiction and at only one of his books, Foe, which has already become something of a classic of this counter-canon.
A Clash Of New And Ancient Gods
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Author : Abby Fisher Yost
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
A Clash Of New And Ancient Gods written by Abby Fisher Yost and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Africa, Central categories.
"Religious conflict, missionary versus indigenous priest for the soul of society, occurs repeatedly in the postcolonial fiction of central Africa, as the chosen means to illustrate the colonial and postcolonial environment. Given the omnipresence of religion in the postcolonial fiction of central Africa, there is little analysis that comprehensively explores its function from the broad scope of multiple novels and perspectives in comparison with postcolonial fiction from regions outside Africa. In this inquiry, I have chosen to analyze three exemplary pieces of religion-infused postcolonial fiction; The river between by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o (1965), Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe (1964), and The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (1998). These novels represent three ways to engage in the colonial discourse of these regions: The African to the African, the African to the Westerner, and the Westerner to the Westerner about Africa. Religion is shown to be the primary authorial mechanism to illustrate the cultural misunderstandings that arise between the colonial forces and the indigenous inhabitants. The various crises of faith within the novels are revealed to be the subtle means that the authors use to suggest possible courses of action to defeat imperialism within the framework of a postcolonial narrative. A decolonizing discourse emerges from the resolutions to the crises of faith that each character undergoes. The model missionary is examined, an archetypcal character within each novel whose role is to guide the other characters to an author-condoned spiritual resolution while pointing towards the author's chosen stance against imperialism. The conclusion ultimately considers why the construct of religion is such a suitable vehicle for accomplishing these aims in the context of these regions, alighting upon the ability of religion to address both the communal and individual approaches to dealing with profound loss."--leaf 5.
Historical Companion To Postcolonial Literatures Continental Europe And Its Empires
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Author : Prem Poddar
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2008-07-03
Historical Companion To Postcolonial Literatures Continental Europe And Its Empires written by Prem Poddar and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-07-03 with Literary Criticism categories.
Regional Editors: John Beverley, Charles Forsdick, Pierre-Philippe Fraiture, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Theo D'haen, Lars Jensen, Birthe Kundrus, Elizabeth Monasterios, Phillip Rothwell. Your complete reference to the postcolonial literatures of Continental European Empires. Written by expert scholars in the fields of postcolonial studies, the entries cover major events, ideas, movements and figures in postcolonial histories. The entries range from the first European overseas the first explorations, settlements and colonies right up to decolonisation. They highlight the relevance of colonial histories to the cultural, social, political and literary formations of contemporary postcolonial societies and nations.By outlining the historical contexts of postcolonial literatures, the companion unlocks contemporary debates about race, colonialism & neo-colonialism, politics, economics, culture and language.
Vodou In Haitian Memory
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Author : Celucien L. Joseph
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2016-05-12
Vodou In Haitian Memory written by Celucien L. Joseph and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-12 with Literary Collections categories.
Throughout Haitian history—from 17th century colonial Saint-Domingue to 21st century postcolonial Haiti—arguably, the Afro-Haitian religion of Vodou has been represented as an “unsettling faith” and a “cultural paradox,” as expressed in various forms and modes of Haitian thought and life including literature, history, law, politics, painting, music, and art. Competing voices and conflicting ideas of Vodou have emerged from each of these cultural symbols and intellectual expressions. The Vodouist discourse has not only pervaded every aspect of the Haitian life and experience, it has defined the Haitian cosmology and worldview. Further, the Vodou faith has had a momentous impact on the evolution of Haitian intellectual, aesthetic, and literary imagination; comparatively, Vodou has shaped Haitian social ethics, sexual and gender identity, and theological discourse such as in the intellectual works and poetic imagination of Jean Price-Mars, Dantes Bellegarde, Jacques Roumain, Jacques Stephen Alexis, etc. Similarly, Vodou has shaped the discourse on the intersections of memory, trauma, history, collective redemption, and Haitian diasporic identity in Haitian women’s writings such as in the fiction of Edwidge Danticat, Myriam Chancy, etc. The chapters in this collection tell a story about the dynamics of the Vodou faith and the rich ways Vodou has molded the Haitian narrative and psyche. The contributors of this book examine this constructed narrative from a multicultural voice that engages critically the discipline of ethnomusicology, drama, performance, art, anthropology, ethnography, economics, literature, intellectual history, philosophy, psychology, sociology, religion, and theology. Vodou is also studied from multiple theoretical approaches including queer, feminist theory, critical race theory, Marxism, postcolonial criticism, postmodernism, and psychoanalysis.
Migrant Cartographies
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Author : Sandra Ponzanesi
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2005-08-04
Migrant Cartographies written by Sandra Ponzanesi and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-08-04 with Literary Criticism categories.
In recent years, Europe has had to constantly rethink and redefine its attitude toward new flows of immigrations. Issues of boundaries and identity have been integral to this reflection. Through a magnificent collection of essays, Migrant Cartographies examines both sites and conflicts and the way in which forms of belonging and identity have been reinvented. With careful analysis and exceptional insight, this volume explores the most recent literature on migration as seen from different European viewpoints. This book fills a conspicuous void in migration literature, as there are no comprehensive books on migrant literatures in Europe that address the full range of complexities of colonial legacies and linguistic productions.
Foe
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Author : J. M. Coetzee
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2017-02-07
Foe written by J. M. Coetzee and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-07 with Fiction categories.
With the same electrical intensity of language and insight that he brought to Waiting for the Barbarians, J.M. Coetzee reinvents the story of Robinson Crusoe—and in so doing, directs our attention to the seduction and tyranny of storytelling itself. J.M. Coetzee's latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018. In 1720 the eminent man of letters Daniel Foe is approached by Susan Barton, lately a castaway on a desert island. She wants him to tell her story, and that of the enigmatic man who has become her rescuer, companion, master and sometimes lover: Cruso. Cruso is dead, and his manservant, Friday, is incapable of speech. As she tries to relate the truth about him, the ambitious Barton cannot help turning Cruso into her invention. For as narrated by Foe—as by Coetzee himself—the stories we thought we knew acquire depths that are at once treacherous, elegant, and unexpectedly moving.