The African Novel And The Modernist Tradition
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The African Novel And The Modernist Tradition
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Author : David I. Ker
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Release Date : 1998
The African Novel And The Modernist Tradition written by David I. Ker 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.
The African Novel and the Modernist Tradition challenges, from a literary perspective, the general thinking that what is European and American is uniquely different from what is African. The book examines key African novels side by side with British and American modernist novels. Through this comparative study, it demonstrates the manner in which several African novelists have taken full advantage of the experimentation that modernism offers to tackle their own 'crisis of culture'. This study shows that African novelists clearly understand what modernism is and employ to advantage its consciousness of disorder, despair, and anarchy. The African Novel and the Modernist Tradition is thus able to conclude that the African novel is part of a larger fictional universe.
Oral Tradition In African Literature
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Author : Ce, Chin
language : en
Publisher: Handel Books
Release Date : 2015-09-04
Oral Tradition 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 2015-09-04 with Literary Criticism categories.
This study of oral tradition in African literature is borne from the awareness that African verbal arts still survive in works of discerning writers and in the conscious exploration of its tropes, perspectives, philosophy and consciousness, its complementary realism, and ontology, for the delineation of authentic African response to memory, history and other possible comparisons with modern existence such as witnessed in recent developments of the African novel. In this series we have strived to adopt innovative and multilayered perspectives on orality or indigeneity and its manifestations on contemporary African and new literatures. These studies use multi-faceted theories of orality which discuss and deconstruct notions of history, truth-claims and identity-making, not excluding gender and genealogy (cultural and biological) studies in African contexts.
Reading The African Novel
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Author : Simon Gikandi
language : en
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
Release Date : 1987
Reading The African Novel written by Simon Gikandi and has been published by Heinemann Educational Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Education categories.
Simon Gikandi provides critical analysis on the African novel.
Tradition And Modernity In The African Short Story
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Author : Fidelis Odun Balogun
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 1991
Tradition And Modernity In The African Short Story written by Fidelis Odun Balogun and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Fiction categories.
While the short story has long been treated seriously by scholars in both Europe and America, in Africa the genre has been all but ignored by critics. Despite its popularity on the continent, the African short story has never been the subject of a thorough and systematic study. In this pioneering work, F. Odun Balogun offers a two-part look at the genre, beginning with a general survey of African short stories and an approach for textual analysis, and followed by a detailed exploration of the themes and artistic methods of two representative writers. The book provides an extensive range of coverage, as well as theoretic perspectives on the historical development of African prose, literature of the absurd, and other aspects of literary theory. The work begins with a four-chapter section surveying theoretical aspects of the African short story. Chapter one examines the critical scholarship, discusses the reasons for neglect and reaffirms the significance of the African short story, while chapter two explores the major thematic preoccupations of the writers working in the genre. Topics covered include art, religion, tradition and culture, urban life, colonial and post-colonial reality, and apartheid. In chapter three, the African short story is judged against the exacting demands of the genre, with particular emphasis on verbal discipline, imaginativeness, and linguistic experimentations. Chapter four concludes the general survey with a discussion of irony, the most dominant element of style and source of appeal. The book's second section offers detailed studies of the work of two writers: Chinua Achebe, who typifies the traditional realistic mode, and Taban lo Liyong, a post-modernist experimentalist. Each author's work is examined for general themes and artistic structures, and is followed by close examinations of Achebe's Girls at War and The Madman and lo Liyong's Fixions and The Uniformed Man. A brief summary chapter concludes the work. This important, first-of-its-kind study will be an indispensable resource for courses in African literature, African prose fiction, and twentieth century short stories, as well as a valuable addition to both public and academic libraries.
The African Novel And The Realist Tradition
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Author : Ferdinand Iorbee Asoo
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
The African Novel And The Realist Tradition written by Ferdinand Iorbee Asoo and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with African fiction (English) categories.
Exile And Tradition
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Author : Rowland Smith
language : en
Publisher: London : Longman & Dalhousie University Press
Release Date : 1976
Exile And Tradition written by Rowland Smith and has been published by London : Longman & Dalhousie University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with Literary Criticism categories.
Toward The Decolonization Of African Literature
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Author : Chinweizu
language : en
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Howard University Press
Release Date : 1983
Toward The Decolonization Of African Literature written by Chinweizu and has been published by Washington, D.C. : Howard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Literary Criticism categories.
The African Imagination
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Author : F. Abiola Irele
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2001-09-27
The African Imagination written by F. Abiola Irele and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-09-27 with Literary Criticism categories.
This collection of essays from eminent scholar F. Abiola Irele provides a comprehensive formulation of what he calls an "African imagination" manifested in the oral traditions and modern literature of Africa and the Black Diaspora. The African Imagination includes Irele's probing critical readings of the works of Chinua Achebe, Edward Kamau Brathwaite, Amadou Hampat'e B^a, and Ahmadou Kourouma, among others, as well as examinations of the growing presence of African writing in the global literary marketplace and the relationship between African intellectuals and the West. Taken as a whole, this volume makes a superb introduction to African literature and to the work of one of its leading interpreters.
Approaches To The African Novel
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Author : Charles E. Nnolim
language : en
Publisher: African Books Collective
Release Date : 2010
Approaches To The African Novel 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.
This Third Edition of Approaches to the African Novel is a child of necessity. Because of the unfortunate death of the publisher of Saros International who issued the First Edition and high demand this third, enlarged edition has become imperative. Three new essays (all previously published) are added, two expectedly on Achebe (the father of the African novel) and one on Mongp Betiís Mission to Kala which was partially anthologised in Contemporary Literary Criticism (Volume 27, 1984). Achebeís Things Fall Apart as an Igbo national epic has evoked a spate of reactions from critics of African literature especially the troika Chinweizu et al. in Toward the Decolonization of African Literature. It was also anthologised in Modern Black Literature edited by S. Okechukwu Menu (1971). The essay on Arrow of God whose structure and meaning has been largely avoided by other critics is included here for further airing. For gender balance, as the previous volume contained no essays on women writers, an essay on Flora Nwapa has been added. Since the novels discussed in this volume exclusively are on the African literature south of the Sahara, the last essay on Peter Abrahams comes in to round out this collection of essays with a study of a south African writer, for geographical balance.
The Growth Of The African Novel
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Author : Eustace Palmer
language : en
Publisher: London ; Exeter, N.H. : Heinemann
Release Date : 1979
The Growth Of The African Novel written by Eustace Palmer and has been published by London ; Exeter, N.H. : Heinemann this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Africa categories.