Essays In Comparative African Literature

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Essays In Comparative African Literature

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Author : Willfried Feuser
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001

Essays In Comparative African Literature written by Willfried Feuser and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with African literature categories.

Compass Comparative Literature In Africa

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Author : Maduka, Chidi T.
language : en
Publisher: M & J Grand Orbit Communications
Release Date : 2016-03-07

Compass Comparative Literature In Africa written by Maduka, Chidi T. and has been published by M & J Grand Orbit Communications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-07 with Literary Criticism categories.

This is a commemorative volume devoted to the late Professor Willfried F. Feuser, a literary icon and a comparatist of no mean repute. Though German by origin, Professor Feuser showed great concern to the Africanist agenda of self-realisation, and therefore devoted the greatest part of his productive academic life to the cultural revival and socio-economic emancipation of Africa and the Diaspora through his scholarly publications. This book contains 20 essays on a wide range of issues in literary criticism.

Comparative Literature And African Literatures

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Author : C. F. Swanepoel
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993

Comparative Literature And African Literatures written by C. F. Swanepoel and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with African literature categories.

Essays I Comparative Literature And Culture Criticism France Africa And America

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Author : Ibrahim Amidou
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2008

Essays I Comparative Literature And Culture Criticism France Africa And America written by Ibrahim Amidou and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Education categories.

"Essays I: Comparative Literature and Culture Criticism: France, Africa, America" is a compilation of 5 critical essays designed to provoke thoughts ranging from Modern African System of government inherited from (French) colonization and its consequences on the mentality of African leaders/dictators, to slavery time in America and the status of black learned people in the American society. Also, the theme of war is covered in the essay dealing with the works of Claude Simon. This collection is a good tool for education and research.

Comparative Approaches To African Literatures

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Author : Bernth Lindfors
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2022-05-20

Comparative Approaches To African Literatures written by Bernth Lindfors and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-20 with Literary Criticism categories.

Some of the essays in this book - notably those concerned with examining Western influences on sub-Saharan African writings (tracing Shakespearean and Brechtian echoes in Nigerian drama, for instance, or following the footprints of Sherlock Holmes in Swahili detective fiction) - fit the traditional definition of comparative literature. These are essays that cross national literary boundaries and sometimes transcend language barriers as well. They look for correspondences in related literary phenomena from widely dispersed areas of the globe, bringing together what is akin from what is akimbo. But most of the essays included here involve closer comparisons. Two focus on works produced in different languages within the same African nation (Yoruba and English in Nigeria, Afrikaans and English in South Africa), and one presents a taxonomy of dominant literary forms in English in three East African nations. Others concentrate on the oeuvre of a single author, and on the likely future output of exiled writers who soon will be returning home. One essay contrasts discursive tendencies within the same text, and another investigates conflicting African and Western religious beliefs. A great variety of comparative methodologies is deployed here; not all of these are transnational, multilingual or pluralistic in scope. The last two groups of essays deal with matters of characterization and authorial reputation. Studies of the depiction of African Americans, politicians and women in a wide range of African literary texts are followed by an assessment of the current standing of anglophone Africa's leading authors. In entering such highly contested terrain, the comparatist approach adopted has been that of the neutral witness to early African attempts - comparatist in their own way - to define an African canon of classic texts. Authors discussed include: Ama Ata Aidoo (Ghana); Chinua Achebe, John Pepper Clark, Cyprian Ekwensi, D.O. Fagunwa, Wole Soyinka and Amos Tutuola (Nigeria); Peter Abrahams, J.M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, Alex La Guma, Thomas Mofolo, Es'kia Mphahlele and Karel Schoeman (South Africa).

Comparative Literature And Foreign Languages In Africa Today

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Author : Tunde Okanlawon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988

Comparative Literature And Foreign Languages In Africa Today written by Tunde Okanlawon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Comparative literature categories.

Explorations

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Author : Makoto Ueda
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986

Explorations written by Makoto Ueda and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Comparative literature categories.

A wide-ranging collection of seventeen essays which explore the current frontiers of comparative literature. Features famous literary figures as well as less well-known authors, and examines their contributions to world literature.

Contexts Of African Literature

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Author : Albert S. Gérard
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2022-06-08

Contexts Of African Literature written by Albert S. Gérard and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-08 with Literary Criticism categories.

On The Road To Guinea

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992

On The Road To Guinea written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with African Americans categories.

Thread In The Loom

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Author : Niyi Osundare
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002

Thread In The Loom written by Niyi Osundare and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Literary Collections categories.

Even in this age of triumphal globalism, Africa still hangs on to a precarious existence in the margin, the zone of abysmal silence and disarticulation, stripped of agency and talk-back capability. It remains largely invisible on the map of the global village drawn by those who control the paper as well as the pencil. In an age of "travelling theories" and "travelling texts," externally generated ideas and prejudices travel with imperial ease and confidence in Africa while the "canon war" makes it extremely difficult for African texts to make it to the reading lists of European and American institutions. Related problems such as a grossly maladjusted economy with the myriad socio-economic injustices spawned by it, political instability, dictatorship, and intolerance have affected the literary and cultural scene in near apocalyptic proportions. This selection of essays addresses these and other issues from the author's perspective as an African writer, academic, social critic, and regular contributor to media discourse. Book jacket.