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Author | : Ngugi wa Thiong'o |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 126 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0852555016 |
Download Decolonising the Mind Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Ngugi wrote his first novels and plays in English but was determined, even before his detention without trial in 1978, to move to writing in Gikuyu.
Author | : Mukoma Wa Ngugi |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2018-03-27 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 047205368X |
Download The Rise of the African Novel Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Engaging questions of language, identity, and reception to restore South African and diaspora writing to the African literary tradition
Author | : Edmund L. Epstein |
Publisher | : Africa World Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : African literature |
ISBN | : 9780865435353 |
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In this unprecedented anthology, some of the most prolific and widely read African novelists are analysed.
Author | : Ngugi wa Thiong'o |
Publisher | : East African Publishers |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Africa |
ISBN | : 9789966466846 |
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Author | : Eldred D. Jones |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Download The Question of Language in African Literature Today Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Andindilile, Michael |
Publisher | : NISC (Pty) Ltd |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2018-11-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1920033238 |
Download The Anglophone Literary-Linguistic Continuum Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Michael Andindilile in The Anglophone Literary–Linguistic Continuum: English and Indigenous Languages in African Literary Discourse interrogates Obi Wali’s (1963) prophecy that continued use of former colonial languages in the production of African literature could only lead to ‘sterility’, as African literatures can only be written in indigenous African languages. In doing so, Andindilile critically examines selected of novels of Achebe of Nigeria, Ngũgĩ of Kenya, Gordimer of South Africa and Farah of Somalia and shows that, when we pay close attention to what these authors represent about their African societies, and the way they integrate African languages, values, beliefs and cultures, we can discover what constitutes the Anglophone African literary–linguistic continuum. This continuum can be defined as variations in the literary usage of English in African literary discourse, with the language serving as the base to which writers add variations inspired by indigenous languages, beliefs, cultures and, sometimes, nation-specific experiences.
Author | : Gaurav Desai |
Publisher | : Modern Language Association of America |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781603290371 |
Download Teaching the African Novel Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : Chinua Achebe |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 1994-09-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0385474547 |
Download Things Fall Apart Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
“A true classic of world literature . . . A masterpiece that has inspired generations of writers in Nigeria, across Africa, and around the world.” —Barack Obama “African literature is incomplete and unthinkable without the works of Chinua Achebe.” —Toni Morrison Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Things Fall Apart is the first of three novels in Chinua Achebe's critically acclaimed African Trilogy. It is a classic narrative about Africa's cataclysmic encounter with Europe as it establishes a colonial presence on the continent. Told through the fictional experiences of Okonkwo, a wealthy and fearless Igbo warrior of Umuofia in the late 1800s, Things Fall Apart explores one man's futile resistance to the devaluing of his Igbo traditions by British political andreligious forces and his despair as his community capitulates to the powerful new order. With more than 20 million copies sold and translated into fifty-seven languages, Things Fall Apart provides one of the most illuminating and permanent monuments to African experience. Achebe does not only capture life in a pre-colonial African village, he conveys the tragedy of the loss of that world while broadening our understanding of our contemporary realities.
Author | : Alain Ricard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : African languages |
ISBN | : 9780852555828 |
Download The Languages & Literatures of Africa Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Focusing on linguistic consciousness and the place of language in the writer's consciousness, this book provides an original and comprehensive treatment of the African literary situation.
Author | : African Literature Association. Meeting |
Publisher | : Africa World Press |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Africa |
ISBN | : 9780865439962 |
Download Tongue and Mother Tongue Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Tongue and Mother Tongue takes on two compelling challenges: the language question and the place and role of the mother tongue in African literature. This collection is the culmination of the fierce, decades-old debate on the question of African literature and its criticism. The fourteen essays range from a variety of critical and theoretical perspectives, covering the theoretical and ideological aspects of the language question, the nature of criticism, the influence of the oral tradition, critical analysis of mother tongue literature and textual analyses.