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Author | : Bernth Lindfors |
Publisher | : Africa Research and Publications |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Africa, East |
ISBN | : 9781592217946 |
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Focusing on the early careers of notable East African writers such as Ngugi wa Thiong'o, David Maillu and Okot p'Bitek, Early East African Writers and Publishers is a collection of essays exploring the emergence of East African multilingual literary production in the mid-20th century. Through rare interviews with the major writers of the region, Professor Lindfors provides rare accounts into the process by which East Africa, once considered the literary desert of the African continent, became central to the creation of a unique literary scene.
Author | : Simon Gikandi |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0231125208 |
Download The Columbia Guide to East African Literature in English Since 1945 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Columbia Guide to East African Literature in English Since 1945 challenges the conventional belief that the English-language literary traditions of East Africa are restricted to the former British colonies of Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania. Instead, these traditions stretch far into such neighboring countries as Somalia and Ethiopia. Simon Gikandi and Evan Mwangi assemble a truly inclusive list of major writers and trends. They begin with a chronology of key historical events and an overview of the emergence and transformation of literary culture in the region. Then they provide an alphabetical list of major writers and brief descriptions of their concerns and achievements. Some of the writers discussed include the Kenyan novelists Grace Ogot and Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Ugandan poet and essayist Taban Lo Liyong, Ethiopian playwright and poet Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin, Tanzanian novelist and diplomat Peter Palangyo, Ethiopian novelist Berhane Mariam Sahle-Sellassie, and the novelist M. G. Vassanji, who portrays the Indian diaspora in Africa, Europe, and North America. Separate entries within this list describe thematic concerns, such as colonialism, decolonization, the black aesthetic, and the language question; the growth of genres like autobiography and popular literature; important movements like cultural nationalism and feminism; and the impact of major forces such as AIDS/HIV, Christian missions, and urbanization. Comprehensive and richly detailed, this guide offers a fresh perspective on the role of East Africa in the development of African and world literature in English and a new understanding of the historical, cultural, and geopolitical boundaries of the region.
Author | : Bernth Lindfors |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Africa, East |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Ruth L. Makotsi |
Publisher | : East African Publishers |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789966466648 |
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Author | : Peter Leman |
Publisher | : Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2020-04-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1789625203 |
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Singing the Law is about the legal lives and afterlives of oral cultures in East Africa, particularly as they appear within the pages of written literatures during the colonial and postcolonial periods. In examining these cultures, this book begins with an analysis of the cultural narratives of time and modernity that formed the foundations of British colonial law. Recognizing the contradictory nature of these narratives (i.e., both promoting and retreating from the Euro-centric ideal of temporal progress) enables us to make sense of the many representations of and experiments with non-linear, open-ended, and otherwise experimental temporalities that we find in works of East African literature that take colonial law as a subject or point of critique. Many of these works, furthermore, consciously appropriate orature as an expressive form with legal authority. This affords them the capacity to challenge the narrative foundations of colonial law and its postcolonial residues and offer alternative models of temporality and modernity that give rise, in turn, to alternative forms of legality. East Africa’s “oral jurisprudence” ultimately has implications not only for our understanding of law and literature in colonial and postcolonial contexts, but more broadly for our understanding of how the global south has shaped modern law as we know and experience it today.
Author | : E. S. Atieno Odhiambo |
Publisher | : Longman Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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A History of East Africa is a collaboration between three East African historians and teachers to create a book covering the history of their region.
Author | : G. D. Killam |
Publisher | : East African Publishers |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780435916718 |
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Author | : Amandina Lihamba |
Publisher | : Feminist Press |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download Women Writing Africa Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Third installment of major literary and scholarly project exposes East African women's history and culture.
Author | : James Currey |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1847015026 |
Download Africa Writes Back Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
17 June 2008 is the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart by Heinemann. This provided the impetus for the foundation of the African Writers Series in 1962 with Chinua Achebe as the Editorial Adviser.'The book is therefore not only the story of a publishing enterprise of great significance; it is also a large part of the story of African literature and its dissemination in the latter half of the twentieth century. The manuscript is full of the drama of that enterprise, the drama of dealing with the mother house, William Heinemann, of dealing with the often intractable political constraints dominating the intellectual space across Africa, and not least of all dealing with the writers themselves - with their ambitions, their temperaments, their financial needs and, at time, their perception of a colonial relationship between themselves and a European publishing house.' - Clive Wake, Emeritus Professor of Modern Languages, University of Kent at Canterbury.
Author | : Gareth Griffiths |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 427 |
Release | : 2014-09-19 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317895851 |
Download African Literatures in English Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Here is an introduction to the history of English writing from East and West Africa drawing on a range of texts from the slave diaspora to the post-war upsurge in African English language and literature from these regions.