Critical Theory And African Literature
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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
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Desiring Modes Of Being Black
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Author : Jean-Paul Rocchi
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2018-08-24
The Desiring Modes Of Being Black written by Jean-Paul Rocchi and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-24 with Philosophy categories.
This book explores how contemporary black literature challenges theoretical approaches of race, gender and sexualities.
African Literature And Social Change
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Author : Olakunle George
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2017-10-16
African Literature And Social Change written by Olakunle George and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-16 with Literary Criticism categories.
“George rethinks the entirety of African literature by considering texts from the 19th century and mid-20th century alongside canonical texts.” —Neil ten Kortenaar, author of Debt, Law, Realism Alert to the ways in which critical theory and imaginative literature can enrich each other, African Literature and Social Change reframes the ongoing project of African literature. Concentrating on texts that are not usually considered together—writings by little-known black missionaries, so called “black whitemen,” and better-known 20th century intellectuals and creative writers—Olakunle George shows the ways in which these writings have addressed notions of ethnicity, nation, and race and how the debates need to be rehistoricized today. George presents Africa as a site of complex desires and contradictions, refashioning the way African literature is positioned within current discussions of globalism, diaspora, and postcolonialism. “A bold exploration of the complexity of different modes of writing about Africa in the context of current debates on the nature of the literary in the production of African knowledge. Concerned with a rhetoric of self-writing as it has developed over two hundred years, Olakunle George attends to local details within the larger configurations of colonial discourse in this ambitious and timely work. It is a caution against the neglect of the conditions of possibility that made an African literature possible.” —Simon Gikandi, author of Slavery and the Culture of Taste “A new and welcome addition to the field of African literary studies, Olakunle George’s African Literature and Social Change is dense where it needs to be and glories in productive close readings when its objects call for it.” —Comparative Literature Studies
The Theory Of African Literature
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Author : Chidi Amuta
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date :
The Theory Of African Literature written by Chidi Amuta and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with African literature categories.
Ideological formations in the criticism of African literature -- Traditionalism and the quest for an African literary aesthetic -- Marxism and African literature -- A dialectical theory of African literature: categories and springboards -- Issues and problems in African literature: A dialectical revision -- History and the dialectics of narrative in the African novel -- Drama and revolution in Africa -- Poetry and liberation politics in Africa -- Beyond decolonization.