North South Linkages And Connections In Continental And Diaspora African Literatures
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North South Linkages And Connections In Continental And Diaspora African Literatures
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Author : African Literature Association. Meeting
language : en
Publisher: Africa World Press
Release Date : 2005
North South Linkages And Connections In Continental And Diaspora African Literatures written by African Literature Association. Meeting 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 2005 with African literature categories.
This volume collects some of the best lectures at the African Literature Association's 25th annual conference held in 1999. The conference brought together for the first time a large number of scholars, creative writers and artists from Northern Africa and their counterparts from Sub- Saharan Africa. The conference and this collection highlight the inspiring and stimulating dialogue between two literary and cultural areas that have often been artificially compartmentalised. The essays draw suprising connections and illustrate the breadth and dynamism of African literature.
Maya Angelou
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Author : Linda Wagner-Martin
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2015-11-19
Maya Angelou written by Linda Wagner-Martin and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-19 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A comprehensive biographical and critical reading of the works of American poet and memoirist Maya Angelou (1928-2014). Linda Wagner-Martin covers all six of Angelou's autobiographies, as well as her essay and poetry collections, while also exploring Angelou's life as an African American in the United States, her career as stage and film performer, her thoughtful participation in the Civil Rights actions of the 1960s, and her travels abroad in Egypt, Africa, and Europe. In her discussion of Angelou's methods of writing her stunning autobiography, which began with the 1970 publication of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Wagner-Martin writes about the influences of the Harlem Writers Group (led by James Baldwin, Paule Marshall, and John O. Killens) as well as Angelou's significant friendships with Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., and other leaders from both international and African American United States cultures. Crucial concepts throughout include the role of oral traditions, of song and dance, of the spiritualism of art based on religious belief, of Angelou's voiced rhythms and her polished use of dialogue to convey more abstract "meaning.†? Wagner-Martin shows that, viewing herself as a global citizen, Angelou never lost her spirit of adventure and discovery as well as her ability to overcome.
The Famished Road
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Author : Vanessa Guignery
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2014-09-26
The Famished Road written by Vanessa Guignery and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-26 with Literary Criticism categories.
Some twenty years after the publication of Ben Okri’s 1991 Booker Prize winning novel, The Famished Road, this volume proposes a spiralling journey into the imaginary homelands of its main protagonist, the adventurous spirit-child Azaro. Over the years, The Famished Road has been attributed a variety of mixed and sometimes contradictory labels (postcolonial, magic realist, mythopoeic, new ageist, picaresque, epic, to name just a few). Contributors to this volume have chosen to look beyond pre-conceived patterns and categories in order to embrace the otherness of the text and accept to be challenged by it. Disentangling themselves from the rationality of Western discourses, they have opened their minds to unfamiliar ground and new modes of being and seeing the world, which entailed bringing together various structures of feeling, modes of knowledge and protocols of representation, both African and Western. The purpose of this volume is therefore to offer new ways of reading The Famished Road that testify to the richness of Okri’s poetic prose and his reliance on indigenous mythical and oral traditions. The volume also includes an exclusive interview with Ben Okri who provides an insight into his writing processes and discusses the main themes, narrative techniques and literary strategies at work in The Famished Road.
Rising Anthills
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Author : Elisabeth Bekers
language : en
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Release Date : 2010-08-05
Rising Anthills written by Elisabeth Bekers and has been published by Univ of Wisconsin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-05 with Literary Collections categories.
Female genital excision, or the ritual of cutting the external genitals of girls and women, is undoubtedly one of the most heavily and widely debated cultural traditions of our time. By looking at how writers of African descent have presented the practice in their literary work, Elisabeth Bekers shows how the debate on female genital excision evolved over the last four decades of the twentieth century, in response to changing attitudes about ethnicity, nationalism, colonialism, feminism, and human rights. Rising Anthills (the title refers to a Dogon myth) analyzes works in English, French, and Arabic by African and African American writers, both women and men, from different parts of the African continent and the diaspora. Attending closely to the nuances of language and the complexities of the issue, Bekers explores lesser-known writers side by side with such recognizable names as Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Flora Nwapa, Nawal El Saadawi, Ahmadou Kourouma, Calixthe Beyala, Alice Walker, and Gloria Naylor. Following their literary discussions of female genital excision, she discerns a gradual evolution—from the 1960s, when writers mindful of its communal significance carefully “wrote around” the physical operation, through the 1970s and 1980s, when they began to speak out against the practice and their societies’ gender politics, to the late 1990s, when they situated their denunciations of female genital excision in a much broader, international context of women’s oppression and the struggle for women’s rights.
Media And Politics In The Southern Mediterranean
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Author : Roxane Farmanfarmaian
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-10-20
Media And Politics In The Southern Mediterranean written by Roxane Farmanfarmaian and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-20 with Political Science categories.
This edited volume presents ground-breaking empirical research on the media in political transition in Tunisia, Turkey and Morocco. Focusing on developments in the wake of the region’s upheavals in 2011, it offers a new theoretical framework for understanding mediascapes in the confessional and hybrid-authoritarian systems of the Middle East. In this book, media scholars focus on three themes: the media’s structure as an expression of governance, the media’s function as a reflection of the market, and the media’s agency in communicating between power and the public. The result is a unique addition to the literature on two counts. Firstly, analysis of similar players, issues and processes in each country produces a thematically consistent comparative assessment of the media’s role across the southern Mediterranean region. The first cross-country comparison of specific media practices in the Middle East, it covers issues such as women in talk shows, media’s relationship with surveillance, and comparative practices of media regulation. Secondly, actualising the idea that media reflects the society that produces it, the studies here draw on field data to lay the foundations for a new theory of media, Values and Status Negotiation (VSN), which evolved from the region’s unique characteristics and practices, and offers an alternative to prevailing Western-centric approaches to media analysis. Media and Politics in the Southern Mediterranean will appeal to students and scholars of politics, sociology, Media Studies, Cultural Studies and Middle Eastern Studies.
Translators Have Their Say
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Author : Abdel Wahab Khalifa
language : en
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Release Date : 2014
Translators Have Their Say written by Abdel Wahab Khalifa and has been published by LIT Verlag Münster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
To address the idea of agency in translation is to highlight the interplay of power and ideology: what gets translated or not and why a text is translated is mainly a matter of exercising power or reflecting authority. The contributions in this book serve as an attempt to understand the complex nature of agency in terms of its relation to agents of translation; the role of translatorial agents and the way they exercise their agency in (de)constructing narratives of power and identity; and the influence of translatorial agency on the various processes of translation and hence on the final translation product as well. (Series: Reprasentation - Transformation. Representation - Transformation. Representation - Transformation. Translating across Cultures and Societies - Vol. 10) [Subject: Translation Studies, Linguistics]
Contesting Historical Divides In Francophone Africa
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Author : Claire Griffiths
language : en
Publisher: University of Chester
Release Date : 2013-06-30
Contesting Historical Divides In Francophone Africa written by Claire Griffiths and has been published by University of Chester this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-30 with LITERARY CRITICISM categories.
From Senegal in the west to the Comoros islands in the east, this collection of essays casts a critical eye over fifty years of 'independence' in former French colonial possessions of Africa and the Indian Ocean. With methods and perspectives that cross traditional disciplinary barriers, Contesting Historical Divides in Francophone Africa proposes fresh insights into the process of decolonisation in this part of the world.
Contesting Historical Divides In French Speaking Africa
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Author : Claire Griffiths
language : en
Publisher: University of Chester
Release Date : 2013
Contesting Historical Divides In French Speaking Africa written by Claire Griffiths and has been published by University of Chester this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with History categories.
This collection of essays casts a critical eye over fifty years of independence in former French colonial possessions of Africa and the Indian Ocean.
Maya Angelou
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Author : Harold Bloom
language : en
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Release Date : 2009
Maya Angelou written by Harold Bloom and has been published by Infobase Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with African Americans in literature categories.
Presents a collection of critical essays which discuss the major works of the African American poet.
Maya Angelou S I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
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Author : Harold Bloom
language : en
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Release Date : 2014-05-14
Maya Angelou S I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings written by Harold Bloom and has been published by Infobase Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-14 with African American authors categories.
Presents a collection of essays analyzing Angelou's story, I know why the caged bird sings. Also includes a chronology of events in the author's life.