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Author | : Charles E. Nnolim |
Publisher | : African Books Collective |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9788422195 |
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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.
Author | : Gaurav Desai |
Publisher | : Modern Language Association of America |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781603290371 |
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What is the African novel, and how should it be taught? The twenty-three essays of this volume address these two questions and in the process convey a wealth of information and ideas about the diverse regions, peoples, nations, languages, and writers of the African continent. Topics include Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's favoring of indigenous languages and literary traditions over European; the special place of Marxism in African letters;the influence of Frantz Fanon; women writers and the sub-Saharan novel;the Maghrebian novel;the novel and the griot epic in the Sahel;Islam in the West African novel;novels in Spanish from Equatorial Guinea;apartheid and postapartheid fiction;African writers in the diaspora;globalization in East African fiction; teaching Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart to students in different countries;the Onitsha market romance. The volume editor, Gaurav Desai, writes, "The point of the volume is to encourage a reading of Africa that is sensitive to its history of colonization but at the same time responsive to its present multiracial and multicultural condition."
Author | : Mukoma Wa Ngugi |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2018-03-27 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 047205368X |
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Engaging questions of language, identity, and reception to restore South African and diaspora writing to the African literary tradition
Author | : Tanure Ojaide |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : African literature |
ISBN | : 9781611630299 |
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Contemporary African Literature: New Approaches comprises essays that go beyond conventional literary studies to open new vistas for critical excursion. It deals not only with purely literary issues of canonization, language, aesthetics, and scholar-poet traditions that have barely been addressed directly in recent studies but also with diverse interdisciplinary topics in literature as of migration, globalization, environmental and human rights, and gender. Written from his scholar-poet position, Tanure Ojaide's essays address pertinent issues that need to be either examined or reexamined in the current condition of Africa in the age of globalization and democratization. The collection of essays also brings literature to bear on issues that have become new concerns for writers and the general African populace. It widens the scope of the African experience in literature as never before. This book is part of the African World Series, edited by Toyin Falola, Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities, University of Texas at Austin. "This book is a worthy read, and its panoramic view will leave any reader familiar with African literature, especially in the areas of poetry and fiction, with ample cause to appreciate Tanure Ojaide's literary foresight and the merits of his scholarship." -- World Literature Today
Author | : Jeanne-Marie Jackson |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2021-01-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0691212406 |
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An ambitious look at the African novel and its connections to African philosophy in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries The African Novel of Ideas focuses on the role of the philosophical novel and the place of philosophy more broadly in the intellectual life of the African continent, from the early twentieth century to today. Examining works from the Gold Coast, South Africa, Uganda, and Zimbabwe, and tracing how such writers as J. E. Casely Hayford, Imraan Coovadia, Tendai Huchu, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, and Stanlake Samkange reconcile deep contemplation with their social situations, Jeanne-Marie Jackson offers a new way of reading and understanding African literature. Jackson begins with Fante anticolonial worldliness in prenationalist Ghana, moves through efforts to systematize Shona philosophy in 1970s Zimbabwe, looks at the Ugandan novel Kintu as a treatise on pluralistic rationality, and arrives at the treatment of “philosophical suicide” by current southern African writers. As Jackson charts philosophy's evolution from a dominant to marginal presence in African literary discourse across the past hundred years, she assesses the push and pull of subjective experience and abstract thought. The first major transnational exploration of African literature in conversation with philosophy, The African Novel of Ideas redefines the place of the African experience within literary history.
Author | : E. Nnolim |
Publisher | : African Books Collective |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2010-12-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9788422829 |
Download Issues in African Literature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The multitudinous nature of African literature has always been an issue but really not a problem, although its oral base has been used by expatriate critics to accuse African literature of thin plots, superficial characterisation, and narrative structures. African literature also, it is observed, is a mixed grill: it is oral; it is written in vernacular or tribal tongues; written in foreign tongues English, French, Portuguese and within the foreign language in which it is written, pidgin and creole further bend the already bent language giving African literature a further taint of linguistic impurity. African literature further suffers from the nature of its "newness" and this created problems for the critic. Because it is new, and because its critics are in simultaneous existence with its writers, we confront the problem of "instant analysis". Issues in African Literature continues the debate and tries to clarify contemporary burning issues in African literature, by focussing on particular areas where the debate has been most concerned or around which it has hovered and been persistent.
Author | : K. Moses Nagbe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 365 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9781420852592 |
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Promises, Promises relates the author's journey through life from a resistant teen to an accepting adult. Joy felt the Lord's call when she was only sixteen years old. She fought that call for al- most thirty years. She had a successful career in the United States Navy as a nurse, working her way up the ranks. Her personal life, however, was an unsatisfying bounce from bad marriage to bad relationship. At the peak of her success in civilian life, she began a downward spiral into a depression so deep, so impassable that she could only escape by answering that call she had ignored for all those years. Joy is now studying for the ministry and wants to share her story and her testimony in the hopes that she can inspire others to listen to the promises of God. "God told me to write a book. But God, I hate to write! Me? Write a book? I don't know the style, the method, the process, and I don't have the money.' Over the next few days when I read my Bible, God began to speak to me. He told me to keep it plain and do it." And "do it" Joy did. She let God show her the style, the method, and the process. She trusted Him to provide the money. This book is proof of her faith and His fulfillment of His promise. Joy's words flow from her heart, sometimes in straight testimony, sometimes in poetry, always in love and peace. Her name truly fits her. The cover was designed by Joy's friend, Elizabeth Sansom. Elizabeth is a retired teacher and full-time artist who has witnessed the transformation in Joy's life. This book will inspire you to reach greater heights in your spiritual walk with God. Promises Promises has the potential of challenging you into a greater level of faith. Dr. Michelle Corral, PhD Foundress & Executive Director, Breath of the Spirit Ministries
Author | : Simon Gikandi |
Publisher | : Heinemann Educational Books |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : |
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Simon Gikandi provides critical analysis on the African novel.
Author | : Stephanie Newell |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2006-06-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0199273979 |
Download West African Literatures Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures series (general editor: Elleke Boehmer) offers stimulating and accessible introductions to definitive topics and key genres and regions within the rapidly diversifying field of postcolonial literary studies in English.This study of West African literatures interweaves the analysis of fiction, drama, and poetry with an exploration of the broader political, cultural, and intellectual contexts within which West African writers work. Anglophone literatures form the central focus of the book, with comparative comments on vernacular literature, francophone writing and oral literatures, and detailed discussion of selected francophone texts in translation (e.g., Senghor, Tadjo, Beyala, Bâ, Sembene). Movingfrom a discussion of nationalist and anti-colonial writing in the period before independence, towards the more experimental writings of contemporary authors such as Véronique Tadjo (Ivory Coast), Syl Cheney-Coker (Sierra Leone), and Kojo Laing (Ghana), the book constantly relates texts to the social andpolitical history of West Africa. Canonical, internationally well-known writers such as Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka are positioned in relation to the literary cultures and debates which surrounded them when they first produced their seminal texts; the discussions and disagreements which have grown up around their work in subsequent decades are also considered. The work of new and lesser-known writers is also considered, including Niyi Osundare (Nigeria) and Kofi Anyidoho (Ghana). In order toconvey a sense of the rich and complex societies that are clustered beneath the umbrella-term 'postcolonial', emphasis is placed on West Africa's diverse oral and popular cultures, and the ways in which local intellectuals and readers have responded to the most prominent authors through theaesthetic frameworks generated by these forms.
Author | : Moradewun Adejunmobi |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 462 |
Release | : 2019-03-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1351859374 |
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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