The Critical Evaluation Of African Literature
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The Critical Evaluation Of African Literature
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Author : Edgar Wright
language : en
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Publishers
Release Date : 1973
The Critical Evaluation Of African Literature written by Edgar Wright and has been published by Heinemann Educational Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with History categories.
African Literature African Critics
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Author : Rand Bishop
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 1988-07-22
African Literature African Critics written by Rand Bishop and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-07-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
From a forest of controversies and opinions by African and non-African critics and writers, Bishop has been able to elicit strong paradigms of critical and theoretical evaluation of African literature by Africans themselves, and therein lies the abiding merit of this book. Modern Fiction Studies The years immediately following World War II saw an extraordinary literary development in Black sub-Saharan Africa--the emergence of a virtually new literature. This phenomenon became the center of critical controversy as writers, commentators, and scholars attempted to forge a set of aesthetic standards for this new literature. Although the European contribution to this discussion is will known, the views of African critics, who have been writing voluminously on the subject since the 1940s, have been given far less attention. In this study, Bishop provides the first systematic examination of how Africans themselves have evaluated African literature in English and French from the early postwar years to the opening of the first World Festival of Negro Arts in 1966.
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.
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.
The Critical Imagination In African Literature
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Author : Maik Nwosu
language : en
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Release Date : 2015-06-09
The Critical Imagination In African Literature written by Maik Nwosu and has been published by Syracuse University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-09 with Literary Criticism categories.
In African studies, the “Echeruoan ideal” is understood as an intervention or intellectual engagement characterized by a broadness of vision as well as a depth of analysis. The essays gathered in this volume celebrate that ideal and honor Echeruo’s contribution to the African intellectual tradition. Editors Nwosu and Obiwu explore the driving forces in the literature of Africa and the African diaspora. Contributors examine such themes as migration and exile, trauma and repression, violence and rebellion, and gender and human rights. Showcasing a rich diversity of cultural and academic backgrounds, this volume inaugurates a new paradigm for further examination of African literature as world literature and for analysis of African literature through the lens of psychoanalytic semiotics. While varied in modes of inquiry, the essays are unified in their ambition to explore new theoretical directions, reinvigorating the conversation around how African literature is read and studied.
Emerging African Voices
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Author : Walter P. Collins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010-01
Emerging African Voices written by Walter P. Collins and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01 with History categories.
This volume offers insightful general analysis and critical evaluation of new writers' works in order to showcase their contributions to the body of African literature. It examines nine contemporary writers whose works (written almost entirely in the colonial languages of English and French) in some way update and refocus African literature for the new century. The writers whose works are under discussion tackle some of the long-standing difficulties of the colonial project-assimilation, Manicheanism, and othering-in new ways while exposing the challenges and dysfunctions of a locale affected by globalization. Because of the multiplicity of experiences in their geographic locations in Africa and across the Diaspora as well as their encounters and capabilities related to their place in the contemporary world, these writers continue to break new ground in African literature. Their work reflects the times and places where they live and interact, and it is for this reason that their work will permanently occupy at key place in the evolution of African literature here at the beginning of a new century almost fifty years after independence.
Essays On African Writing
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Author : Abdulrazak Gurnah
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
Essays On African Writing written by Abdulrazak Gurnah 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.
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.
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.
Routledge Handbook Of African Literature
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Author : Moradewun Adejunmobi
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-03-13
Routledge Handbook Of African Literature written by Moradewun Adejunmobi and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
The turn of the twenty-first century has witnessed an expansion of critical approaches to African literature. The Routledge Handbook of African Literature is a one-stop publication bringing together studies of African literary texts that embody an array of newer approaches applied to a wide range of works. This includes frameworks derived from food studies, utopian studies, network theory, eco-criticism, and examinations of the human/animal interface alongside more familiar discussions of postcolonial politics. Every chapter is an original research essay written by a broad spectrum of scholars with expertise in the subject, providing an application of the most recent insights into analysis of particular topics or application of particular critical frameworks to one or more African literary works. The handbook will be a valuable interdisciplinary resource for scholars and students of African literature, African culture, postcolonial literature and literary analysis. Chapter 4 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9781138713864_oachapter4.pdf