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Author | : Abdullahi Haruna |
Publisher | : GRIN Verlag |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2019-06-26 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3668966745 |
Download African fiction and its social context. A critical analysis of social realism in Festus Iyayi's works Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2014 in the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: A, University of Nigeria (University of Maiduguri-Nigeria), course: ENG 899: Thesis, language: English, abstract: This thesis examines Iyayi’s use of social realism in fiction with the aim to locate his work in the realm of African literature. The concept of social realism and its exponents will be identified and discussed, and its tenets will be applied in the assessment of Iyayi’s works. Iyayi’s novels and a collection of short stories are analysed with a focus on locating Iyayi’s works in the continuum of African literature through an identification of similar authors and their works. Festus Iyayi is comparatively young in the literary circle, compared to names like Achebe, Ngugi, Mwangi, Ousmane and Armah. While some scholars and critics like Amuta (1986) and Ogundipe-Leslie (1994) describe Iyayi’s works as accomplished works of social realism, Acholonu (1987), on the other hand, does not categorize his works this way.
Author | : Abdullahi Haruna |
Publisher | : GRIN Verlag |
Total Pages | : 25 |
Release | : 2019-06-19 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 366896114X |
Download Festus Iyayi's "Violence". A Novel of Social Realism? Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Akademische Arbeit aus dem Jahr 2014 im Fachbereich Literaturwissenschaft - Afrika, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: This study interrogates the deployment of Social Realism in Festus Iyayi’s "Violence" (1979). While some scholars hail Iyayi’s "Violence" as an accomplished novel of Social Realism, others do not accord the novel this status. This critical conflict of opinion presents an interesting subject of study. This paper examines whether or not "Violence" should be considered accomplished in accordance with the popular beliefs about works of Social Realism. Towards this end, the concept of Social Realism and its tenets are discussed and applied in the assessment of Iyayi’s "Violence". The weaknesses and strengths of Iyayi's deployment of the concept in the novel are thereby identified and discussed. The paper thus concludes that although Iyayi’s "Violence" is significant in its treatment of corruption and injustice in society, the novel has some significant flaws in handling the techniques of Social Realism.
Author | : Moussa Issifou |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : African fiction |
ISBN | : |
Download Hybridizing Political Criticism in the Postcolonial African Novel Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"This dissertation examines the use of magical realism as a device for political criticism in the postcolonial African novel as seen in the works of of Kojo B. Laing, Ben Okri, and Ngugi wa Thiong'o, namely Woman of the Aeroplanes, The Famished Road, and Wizard of the Crow, respectively. I argue that, in these novels, magical realism is not merely a literary mode; rather, it is an aesthetic of necessity. In other words, its use by these postcolonial African writers is dictated by the kind of issues they address in their works. Magical realism is the result of an intentional break away from the modes used in the previous African novels. This departure is informed by the realization of the current generation of postcolonial African writers that the social, political, and economic situations in Africa have extraordinary origins which require extraordinary narrative techniques such as fantastical or marvelous realism for adequate representations. In other words, their choice of magical realism is informed by their dissatisfaction with social realism, satire, and other forms which have revealed their limits vis-à-vis the postcolonial African crisis. Because of the postcolonial critics' tendency to assess all magical realist texts with the same criteria, this dissertation emphasizes how the socio-cultural milieus on which the authors I examine draw variously shape their individual magical realist texts. Chapter One discusses magical realism as aesthetic of necessity from its original application to art criticism to its current intervention in the postcolonial literary criticism. Chapter Two discusses Laing's use of a utopian-grounded existentialist magical realism to create limitless possibilities for the creation of a new Africa. Chapter Three focuses on Okri's use of the "abiku" myth to describe the condition of post-independence Africa in general, and Nigeria in particular. Finally, Chapter Four examines how Ngugi draws on Gikuyu folklore to create fabulous realism and satirical magical realism for his depiction of the social, economic, and political situations of postcolonial Kenya and Africa."--Abstract from author supplied metadata.
Author | : F. Abiola Irele |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2001-09-27 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0195358813 |
Download The African Imagination Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Moradewun Adejunmobi |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 462 |
Release | : 2019-03-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1351859374 |
Download Routledge Handbook of African Literature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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
Author | : Chidi Amuta |
Publisher | : Zed Books Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2017-06-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1786990032 |
Download Theory of African Literature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Maik Nwosu |
Publisher | : Syracuse University Press |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2015-06-09 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0815653107 |
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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.
Author | : Reuben Makayiko Chirambo |
Publisher | : Rodopi |
Total Pages | : 427 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9401209375 |
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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.
Author | : Ann Clayton |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2018-05-09 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1928171680 |
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AFRICAN LEGACIES, AFRICAN FICTIONS is a collection of interviews and essays on African fiction.
Author | : Shatto Arthur Gakwandi |
Publisher | : Africana Pub. |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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