Yoruba Girl Dancing
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Yoruba Girl Dancing
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Author : Simi Bedford
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
Yoruba Girl Dancing written by Simi Bedford and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Fiction categories.
"Yoruba Girl Dancing is at once acerbic and moving and painfully honest about the cost of emigration and adjustment."--The Washington Post Born into a privileged Nigerian family, Remi Foster has a life in Africa that is a celebration of love and family, eccentricity and ritual. But at the age of six she is uprooted when her father sends her to a posh all-girls boarding school in England. There, the only black in a school of perfect English girls, she navigates the labyrinth of race, caste, and culture, enduring taunting classmates and foreign holidays celebrated with strangers. Finally, caught between two cultures, Remi must discover who she truly is--a Yoruba girl dancing. "Effortless, elegant, charming . . . Bedford has created a gutsy girl . . . of naturally hot temper, undercut by a canny survival instinct, a cool number, yet all too capable of bewilderment and hurt."--Chicago Tribune
Bearing Witness
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Author : Wendy Griswold
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2018-06-05
Bearing Witness written by Wendy Griswold and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
Greed, frustrated love, traffic jams, infertility, politics, polygamy. These--together with depictions of traditional village life and the impact of colonialism made familiar to Western readers through Chinua Achebe's writing--are the stuff of Nigerian fiction. Bearing Witness examines this varied content and the determined people who, against all odds, write, publish, sell, and read novels in Africa's most populous nation. Drawing on interviews with Nigeria's writers, publishers, booksellers, and readers, surveys, and a careful reading of close to 500 Nigerian novels--from lightweight romances to literary masterpieces--Wendy Griswold explores how global cultural flows and local conflicts meet in the production and reception of fiction. She argues that Nigerian readers and writers form a reading class that unabashedly believes in progress, rationality, and the slow-but-inevitable rise of a reading culture. But they do so within a society that does not support their assumptions and does not trust literature, making them modernists in a country that is simultaneously premodern and postmodern. Without privacy, reliable electricity, political freedom, or even social toleration of bookworms, these Nigerians write and read political satires, formula romances, war stories, complex gender fiction, blood-and-sex crime capers, nostalgic portraits of village life, and profound explorations of how decent people get by amid urban chaos. Bearing Witness is an inventive and moving work of cultural sociology that may be the most comprehensive sociological analysis of a literary system ever written.
Not With Silver
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Author : Simi Bedford
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2017-05-25
Not With Silver written by Simi Bedford and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-25 with Fiction categories.
Abiola is raised as an aristocratic African warrior in a highly developed civilisation, but when he is betrayed and sold into slavery in America he is forcibly transformed into the property of a French immigrant. Renamed Cornelius, he and fellow slave Delilah begin a relationship which culminates in the birth of their daughter, Epiphany, and the new family plan to escape their servitude and find a better life for themselves... But can they return to Africa and find true freedom?
Dancing In The White Sand
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Author : Cynthia Matlock
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-09-28
Dancing In The White Sand written by Cynthia Matlock and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-28 with categories.
It's 1859, and Lani, a 13-year-old Yoruba girl, is snatched away from her village in Africa by marauding men, before she completes an important custom in her village. She is taken to the New World and must learn to speak English and while fighting to stay alive. She must grow into being a woman in America while not forgetting inspiring African customs. When forced with a choice to warn the master or let the horrible place burn, which will she choose? How will she be rewarded for her choice? "Dancing in the White Sand" is a story of pain, suffering, and eventually, survival. A young girl is taken from her family and brought to a new place halfway across the world. There she must learn to survive, love, and dream with the help of a new remarkable family.
Stories Fly
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Author : Brenda Cooper
language : en
Publisher: New Africa Books
Release Date : 2003
Stories Fly written by Brenda Cooper and has been published by New Africa Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Fiction categories.
This book contains an extraordinary collection of short stories and novel extracts written by Africans living outside Africa. It is a collection that also examines the little unknown area of an African experience of living abroad, with themes of identity, belonging and culture as well. Where is home? How does our identity change when we move to a new country, or when national borders are eroded by globalization? These are some of the themes explored in this collection of new fiction from African writers living outside the continent. The writers of the stories and novel extracts come from countries as diverse as Egypt, Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, Ghana, Tanzania and the Sudan. They include both established writers, such as Buchi Emecheta, Ama Ata Aidoo and Abdulrazak Gurnah, and many exciting new voices. By turns humorous, fantastic, satirical and moving, the fiction reveals new worlds to us. This book travels the globe with African writers.
New Directions In African Literature
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Author : Ernest Emenyo̲nu
language : en
Publisher: James Currey Publishers
Release Date : 2006
New Directions In African Literature written by Ernest Emenyo̲nu and has been published by James Currey Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with African literature categories.
Contributors to this volume ask what are the new directions of African literature? What should be the major concerns of writers, critics and teachers in the twenty-first century? What are the accomplishments and legacies? What gaps remain to be filled, and what challenges are there to be addressed by publishers and the book industry? What are the implications for pedagogy in the new technological era? ERNEST EMENYONU is Professor of the Department of Africana Studies University of Michigan-Flint. North America: Africa World Press; Nigeria: HEBN
Africa Wo Man Palava
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Author : Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1996-04-15
Africa Wo Man Palava written by Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-04-15 with Education categories.
Ogunyemi uses the novels to trace a Nigerian women's literary tradition that reflects an ideology centered on children and community. Of prime importance is the paradoxical Mammywata figure, the independent, childless mother, who serves as a basis for the postcolonial woman in the novels and in society at large. Ogunyemi tracks this figure through many permutations, from matriarch to writer, her multiple personalities reflecting competing loyalties. This sustained critical study counters prevailing "masculinist" theories of black literature in a powerful narrative of the Nigerian world.
The Columbia Guide To West African Literature In English Since 1945
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Author : Oyekan Owomoyela
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2008-10-21
The Columbia Guide To West African Literature In English Since 1945 written by Oyekan Owomoyela and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-21 with Literary Criticism categories.
Composed by a premier scholar of African literature, this volume is a comprehensive guide to the literary traditions of Gambia, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ghana, and Nigeria, five distinct countries bound by their experience with colonialism. Oyekan Owomoyela begins with an overview of the authors, texts, and historical events that have shaped the development of postwar Anglophone literatures in this region, exploring shifts in theme and the role of foreign sponsorship and illuminating recent debates regarding the language, identity, gender, and social commitments of various authors and their works. His introduction concludes with a bibliography of key critical texts. The second half of the volume is an alphabetical tour of writers, publications, concepts, genres, movements, and institutions, with suggested readings for further research. Entries focus primarily on fiction but also touch on drama and poetry. Featured authors include Chris Abani, Chinua Achebe, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Cyprian Ekwensi, Uzodinma Chukuka Iweala, Helen Oyeyemi, and Wole Soyinka. Topics range from the European origins of African literature and the West African diaspora to the development of an "African personality," the establishment of a regional publishing industry, and the global literary marketplace. Owomoyela also discusses such influences as the postwar emergence of Onitsha Market Literature, the Mbari Club, and the importance of the Noma Award. Owomoyela's portrait points to the major impact of West African literature on the evolution of both African and world literatures in English. Sure to become the definitive text for research in the field, The Columbia Guide to West African Literature in English Since 1945 is a vital resource for newcomers as well as for advanced scholars seeking a deeper understanding of the region's rich literary heritage.
Yoruba Dance
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Author : Omofolabo S. Ajayi
language : en
Publisher: Africa Research and Publications
Release Date : 1998
Yoruba Dance written by Omofolabo S. Ajayi and has been published by Africa Research and Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Folk dancing, Yoruba categories.
An investigation of the aesthetics, significance, and the production of meaning in Yoruba dance forms through an analysis of the dancer's body attitude in communication and through the events in which dances take place.
Interdisciplinarity And Transdisciplinarity Mapping The Episteme In Language And Literature
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Author : Blossom N. Fondo
language : en
Publisher: Miraclaire Publishing
Release Date :
Interdisciplinarity And Transdisciplinarity Mapping The Episteme In Language And Literature written by Blossom N. Fondo and has been published by Miraclaire Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Literary Criticism categories.
... this collection ponders on the ways language and literature have integrated other disciplines and how these disciplines have imprinted themselves on these two. It constitutes a diverse and rich compendium on what happens when language and literature not only reach out to each other but to other disciplines as well. It is thus a concrete appraisal of the interactions amongst and between disciplines. Nfor Sessekou Professor Edward Oben Ako