Author: Stephen L. Bishop
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 1800348436
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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This book locates the frequent expressions of shame in sub-Saharan African literature and shows how its diverse literary representations underscore shame's function as a fulcrum in the mutual constitution of subject and community on the continent employing both African and Western conceptions of the emotion.
Author: G. D. Killam
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African literature
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Author: Flora Veit-Wild
Publisher: James Currey (GB)
ISBN:
Category : African literature
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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Author: Charles Smith
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 978370365X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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In literature the ambiguous portraiture of female characters by some male writers and the phallic nature of men's writings have proved a matter of concern to female writers in Africa. For decades within African writing the issue of silencing was interrogated particularly as it addressed the muting and marginalisation of black women by male writers through the script of patriarchy which men follow. In this series we continue the literary and dramatic tradition of feminist concern for womens issues and we review novels, plays and poetry which demonstrate a commitment to exploring the challenges facing modern women in changing times and excerpting the issues of gender, feminism, identity, race, history, national and international politics specifically as they affect women. Female Subjectivities collectively answers the need to question and adumbrate the possibilities of literary revisions, showing what it would mean to revise even the Feminist psychoanalyst in a discourse on the subjectivity of women of colour.
Author: Ernest Emenyo̲nu
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 1847010814
Category : Short stories, African (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 194
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Author: Linus Tongwo Asong
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9956727660
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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The novel remains the most popular genre in the African literary landscape. In the very large body of criticism that has been devoted to the craft of African fiction, this very stimulating study of six African novels will hold its own distinctive place for a long while. It brings to African critical thought not only an exceptional acumen of interpretation and analysis, but something much more important to most of the previous serious literary study than mere technical dissection - a keen sense of the experience and imaginative truth that make Asong's selected African texts living books as well as authentic record of human and moral values. Many of Asong's perceptions are not only critically shrewd but humanly searching, alert to aesthetic quality and invention. No one interested in creative criticism of African fiction will read this book without finding its approach a challenge to his or her own reading of African fiction, and a stimulus to understanding the growth and enduring richness of the best of the African novel. The book balances nicely in its choice of three texts in English and three in French, the two dominant colonial languages in Africa South of the Sahara. Even more interesting is the fact that although all the French texts have been translated into English, Asong opts to treat the three in the original language in which they were conceived and executed, a decision which keeps the reader as close as possible to the original idiom.
Author: Evan M. Mwangi
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438426976
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 363
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The profound effects of colonialism and its legacies on African cultures have led postcolonial scholars of recent African literature to characterize contemporary African novels as, first and foremost, responses to colonial domination by the West. In Africa Writes Back to Self, Evan Maina Mwangi argues instead that the novels are primarily engaged in conversation with each other, particularly over emergent gender issues such as the representation of homosexuality and the disenfranchisement of women by male-dominated governments. He covers the work of canonical novelists Nadine Gordimer, Chinua Achebe, NguÅgiÅ wa Thiong'o, and J. M. Coetzee, as well as popular writers such as Grace Ogot, David Maillu, Promise Okekwe, and Rebeka Njau. Mwangi examines the novels' self-reflexive fictional strategies and their potential to refigure the dynamics of gender and sexuality in Africa and demote the West as the reference point for cultures of the Global South.
Author: Derek Wright
Publisher: Bayreuth African Studies
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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Author: Oumar Chérif Diop
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781569026229
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Angela Smith
Publisher: Three Continents
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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A survey of East African writing in English covering novels, poetry and drama.
