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Critical Theory And African Literature
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Author : Ernest Emenyo̲nu
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
Critical Theory And African Literature written by Ernest Emenyo̲nu and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Literary Criticism categories.
Critical Theory And African Literature Today
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Author : Eldred Durosimi Jones
language : en
Publisher: Africa Research and Publications
Release Date : 1995-05
Critical Theory And African Literature Today written by Eldred Durosimi Jones and has been published by Africa Research and Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
An analysis of the literary criticism of modern African Literature.
Critical Theory African Literature Today
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Author : Eldred D. Jones
language : en
Publisher: James Currey Publishers
Release Date : 1994
Critical Theory African Literature Today written by Eldred D. 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 1994 with Literary Collections categories.
North America: Africa World Press
Theory Of African Literature
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Author : Chidi Amuta
language : en
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
Release Date : 2017-06-15
Theory Of African Literature written by Chidi Amuta and has been published by Zed Books Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
This groundbreaking work, first published in 1989, was one of the first to challenge the conventional critical assessment of African literature, and remains highly influential today. Amuta's key argument is that African literature can be discussed only within the wider framework of the dismantling of colonial rule and Western hegemony in Africa. In exploring the possibility of a dialectical, alternative critical base, he draws upon both classical Marxist aesthetics and the theories of African culture espoused by Fanon, Cabral and Ngugi. From these explorations, Amuta derives a new language of criticism, which is then applied to works by modern African writers as diverse as Achebe, Ousmane, Agostinho Neto and Dennis Brutus. Amuta's highly original and innovative approach remains relevant not only for assessing the literature of developing countries, but for Marxist and postcolonial theories of literary criticism more generally. The author's elegance of argument and clarity of exposition makes this a distinguished and lasting contribution to debates around cultural expression in postcolonial Africa.
Literary Criticism Critical Theory And Post Colonial African Literature
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Author : Chinyere Nwahunanya
language : en
Publisher: Arbi Pres
Release Date : 2012
Literary Criticism Critical Theory And Post Colonial African Literature written by Chinyere Nwahunanya and has been published by Arbi Pres this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with History categories.
Nwahunanya examines major issues in contemporary literary criticism and critical theory especially as they concern African literature. Both diachronic and synchronic in his approach, he addresses mainstream issues that come under the purvey of literary criticism and literary history, the aesthetics of African poetry and the relationship between African dramatists and dramatists of the Absurd.
Critical Theory Today
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Author : Lois Tyson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-09-10
Critical Theory Today written by Lois Tyson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
Critical Theory Today is the essential introduction to contemporary criticial theory. It provides clear, simple explanations and concrete examples of complex concepts, making a wide variety of commonly used critical theories accessible to novices without sacrificing any theoretical rigor or thoroughness. This new edition provides in-depth coverage of the most common approaches to literary analysis today: feminism, psychoanalysis, Marxism, reader-response theory, new criticism, structuralism and semiotics, deconstruction, new historicism, cultural criticism, lesbian/gay/queer theory, African American criticism, and postcolonial criticism. The chapters provide an extended explanation of each theory, using examples from everyday life, popular culture, and literary texts; a list of specific questions critics who use that theory ask about literary texts; an interpretation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby through the lens of each theory; a list of questions for further practice to guide readers in applying each theory to different literary works; and a bibliography of primary and secondary works for further reading.
Penpoints Gunpoints And Dreams
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Author : Ngugi wa Thiong'o
language : en
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Release Date : 1998-04-02
Penpoints Gunpoints And Dreams written by Ngugi wa Thiong'o and has been published by Clarendon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-04-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
Penpoints, Gunpoints, and Dreams explores the relationship between art and political power in society, taking as its starting point the experience of writers in contemporary Africa, where they are often seen as the enemy of the postcolonial state. This study, in turn, raises the wider issues of the relationship between the state of art and the art of the state, particularly in their struggle for the control of performance space in territorial, temporal, social, and even psychic contexts. Kenyan writer, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, calls for the alliance of art and people power, freedom and dignity against the encroachments of modern states. Art, he argues, needs to be active, engaged, insistent on being what it has always been, the embodiment of dreams for a truly human world.
Academic Discourses On African Postcolonial Literature In The Past 20 Years
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Author : Anna Poppen
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2014-08-13
Academic Discourses On African Postcolonial Literature In The Past 20 Years written by Anna Poppen and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-13 with Literary Collections categories.
Project Report from the year 2012 in the subject Literature - Africa, grade: 1,0, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, language: English, abstract: The academic discourse on African postcolonial literature is characterized by a continuous process of debates on a variety of issues, reassessments of theories and redefinitions of terms. The term African postcolonial literature refers to writings produced after the political independence of various African states which were formerly subject to European colonial rule. Most of this literature written by African authors in their home countries or in diaspora deals with issues of colonial experience or decolonization. However, as Graham Huggan points out, the term African literature is a problematic concept, because “it conveys a fiction of homogeneity” and ignores the cultural variety existing on the African continent. Gikandi explains that the foundations of modern African literature have been laid by the process of colonization, e.g through education in Christian schools which have enabled today’s forms of literature. Gikandi emphasizes the irony of this fact: “[W]hile the majority of African writers were the products of colonial institutions, they turned to writing to oppose colonialism.” This leads to various problems when dealing with African writings, especially when applying the viewpoint of postcolonial criticism, which has been trying to theorize African writings since the 1980s. As Huggan points out, postcolonial criticism has been criticized “as subscribing to the very binaries (e.g. ‘Europe and its Others’) it seeks to resist.” This paper contains an annotated bibliography which considers various issues regarding African postcolonial literature that have been discussed in the past 20 years. Here, the term African postcolonial literature is understood in a temporal way (referring to the postcolonial era in Africa) and in an academic way (referring to the postcolonial discourse). The articles, collections of essays and monographs listed in the bibliography only provide glimpses at the extensive and elaborate discourses on African postcolonial writings. However, the entries in the bibliography have been categorized in order to cast a light on the main issues and problems discussed in this field. In the following, introductory works and texts dealing with the two main genres of African literature will be presented first. Works referring to postcolonial theory and consequential problems and debates (e.g. on language) take the major part of the bibliography.
Literary Theory And African Literature
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Author : Josef Gugler
language : en
Publisher: Lit Verlag
Release Date : 1994
Literary Theory And African Literature written by Josef Gugler and has been published by Lit Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with History categories.
African Literature Animism And Politics
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Author : Caroline Rooney
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2004-01-14
African Literature Animism And Politics written by Caroline Rooney and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-01-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book marks an important contribution to colonial and postcolonial studies in its clarification of the African discourse of consciousness and its far-reaching analyses of a literature of animism. It will be of great interest to scholars in many fields including literary and critical theory, philosophy, anthropology, politics and psychoanalysis.