Issues In African Literature
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Issues In African Literature
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Author : Charles E. Nnolim
language : en
Publisher: African Books Collective
Release Date : 2010
Issues In African Literature written by Charles E. Nnolim and has been published by African Books Collective this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Literary Criticism categories.
The multitudinous nature of African literature has always been an issue but really not a problem, although its oral base has been used by expatriate critics to accuse African literature of thin plots, superficial characterisation, and narrative structures. African literature also, it is observed, is a mixed grill: it is oral; it is written in vernacular or tribal tongues; written in foreign tongues English, French, Portuguese and within the foreign language in which it is written, pidgin and creole further bend the already bent language giving African literature a further taint of linguistic impurity. African literature further suffers from the nature of its "newness" and this created problems for the critic. Because it is new, and because its critics are in simultaneous existence with its writers, we confront the problem of "instant analysis". Issues in African Literature continues the debate and tries to clarify contemporary burning issues in African literature, by focussing on particular areas where the debate has been most concerned or around which it has hovered and been persistent.
Issues In African Literature
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Author : Charles Ekwusiaga Nnolim
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Issues In African Literature written by Charles Ekwusiaga Nnolim and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with African literature categories.
Gender Issues In African Literature
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Author : Ce, Chin
language : en
Publisher: Handel Books
Release Date : 2014-04-03
Gender Issues In African Literature written by Ce, Chin and has been published by Handel Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-03 with Literary Criticism categories.
Gender Issues in African Literature examines the ways in which some protagonists of African fictions are made to counter and challenge intertwined Western discourses on gender, employment, sexuality, and health. Here the conflict between Tradition and Modernity is argues from the favourite premise of male supremacist ideology showing how women have 'unlearned' these false concepts to build a sustained feminist movement and (re)learn the value of sisterhood. There is a bold attempt to reread Achebe as a consistent in urging women to fight the seemingly oppressive structures that have traditionally discriminated against them, and to disregard their diversity and embrace their unity. A chapter of Feminist Re-writing disagrees with the attempt to equate theory with political activism and presents Feminist literature as more than a verbal assertion that points to Feminist aesthetics and politics. The use of the trauma theory and testimony literature to explore traumatisation of female characters and its impact for Zimbabwean civil society is a useful addition to these gender studies in African literature.
Critical Issues In African Literature
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Author : Chinyelu Florence Ojukwu
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Critical Issues In African Literature written by Chinyelu Florence Ojukwu and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with African literature (English) categories.
Challenging Hierarchies
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Author : Leonard A. Podis
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Release Date : 1998
Challenging Hierarchies written by Leonard A. Podis and has been published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Combining criticism, fiction, and creative autobiography, Challenging Hierarchies reflects the vital spirit of African literature and literary studies today.
Literatures In African Languages
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Author : B. W. Andrzejewski
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1985-11-21
Literatures In African Languages written by B. W. Andrzejewski and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985-11-21 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Although African literatures in English and French are widely known outside Africa, those in the African languages themselves have not received comparable attention. In this book a number have been selected for survey by fourteen specialist writers, providing the reader with an introduction to this very wide field and a body of reference material which includes extensive bibliographies and biographical information on African authors. Theoretical issues such as genre divisions are discussed in the essays and the historical, social and political forces at work in the creation and reception of African literature are examined. Literature is treated as an art whose medium is language, so that both the oral and written forms are encompassed. This book will be of value not only to readers concerned with the cultures of Africa but to all those with an interest in the literary phenomena of the world in general.
War In African Literature Today
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Author : Ernest Emenyo̲nu
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Release Date : 2008
War In African Literature Today written by Ernest Emenyo̲nu and has been published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Literary Collections categories.
Since the second half of the twentieth century, no single phenomenon has marred the image and development of Africa more than senseless fratricidal wars which rapidly followed the political independence of nations. This issue of African Literature Today is devoted to studies of how African writers, as historical witnesses, have handled the recreation of war as a cataclysmic phenomenon in various locations on the continent. The contributors explore the subject from a variety of perspectives: panoramic, regional, national and through comparative studies. War has enriched contemporary African literature, but at what price to human lives, peace and the environment? ERNEST EMENYONU is Professor of the Department of Africana Studies University of Michigan-Flint. The contributors include: CHIMALUM NWANKWO, CHRISTINE MATZKE, CLEMENT A. OKAFOR, INIBONG I. UKO, OIKE MACHIKO, SOPHIE OGWUDE, MAURICE TAONEZVI VAMBE, ZOE NORRIDGE and ISIDORE DIALA. Nigeria: HEBN
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.
Marxism And African Literature
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Author : Georg M. Gugelberger
language : en
Publisher: Africa World Press
Release Date : 1986
Marxism And African Literature written by Georg M. Gugelberger and has been published by Africa World Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Literary Criticism categories.
Counter Discourse In African Literature
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Author : Ce, Chin
language : en
Publisher: Handel Books
Release Date : 2014-04-03
Counter Discourse In African Literature written by Ce, Chin and has been published by Handel Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-03 with Literary Criticism categories.
This volume charts the widening frontiers of black literary aesthetics using the prose and dramatic fictions of writers from Africa and the African diaspora. The chapters come in two interactive phases of current critical discourses involving rejoinders from past-present concerns and issues of cultural and contemporary modernity. These studies stress the argument that African literature is hardly discussed outside contemporary history and that the reason for the apparent disconnection among groups in Africa and the diaspora can be traced to the disparate elements within the continent and diaspora.