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  1. Principles of Akkadian textual criticism
    Author: Worthington, Martin
    Published: c2012
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Boston

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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 1614510563; 9781614510567; 1614510512; 9781614510512; 1283629259; 9781283629256
    Series: Studies in ancient Near Eastern records ; v. 1
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / African; Akkadian language; Akkadian language / Writing; Akkadian philology; Assyro-Babylonian literature; Transmission of texts; Assyro-Babylonian literature; Akkadian language; Transmission of texts; Akkadian language; Akkadian philology; Textkritik; Literatur; Akkadisch
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    Errors of many kinds abound in Akkadian writings, but this fact's far-reaching implications have never been unraveled and systematized. To attempt this is the aim of this book. Drawing on scholarship from other fields, it outlines a framework for the critical evaluation of extant text and the formulation of conjectural emendations. Along the way, it explores issues at the interface of orthography, textual transmission, scribal education, grammar, literacy, and literary interpretation.--Cover
  2. Postcolonial agency in African and diasporic literature and film
    a study in globalectics
    Author: Losambe, Lokangaka
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York ; Taylor & Francis Group, London

    "This book chronicles the rise and the development of postcolonial agency since Africa's encounter with Western modernity through African and African diaspora literature and film. Using African and African diasporic imaginaries (creative writings,... more

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    "This book chronicles the rise and the development of postcolonial agency since Africa's encounter with Western modernity through African and African diaspora literature and film. Using African and African diasporic imaginaries (creative writings, autobiographies, polemical writings, and filmic media) the author shows how African subjects have resisted enslavement and colonial domination over the past centuries, and how they have sought to reshape "global modernity". Authors and film makers whose works are examined in detail include Olaudah Equiano, William Sheppard, Haile Gerima, Wole Soyinka, Dani Kouyaté, Chris Abani, Chimamanda Adichie, Leila Aboulela, Imbolo Mbue, Alain Mabanckou, Abdourahman Waberi, Marie NDiaye, and Fatou Diome. Providing a critical study of nativism, hybridity and post-hybrid conjunctive consciousness, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of African and African diasporic literature, history, and cultural studies"--...

     
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  3. Labyrinths, intellectuals and the revolution
    the Arabic-language Moroccan novel, 1957-72
    Author: Campbell, Ian
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Brill, Leiden

    Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- 1 Conditions and Preconditions of the Arabic-Language Moroccan Novel -- 2 The Labyrinthine and the Abstract -- 3 Permeability and the Sacred Interior -- 4 The Intellectual Master Narrator -- 5 The Female... more

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    Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- 1 Conditions and Preconditions of the Arabic-Language Moroccan Novel -- 2 The Labyrinthine and the Abstract -- 3 Permeability and the Sacred Interior -- 4 The Intellectual Master Narrator -- 5 The Female Protagonist in the Labyrinth -- 6 Exile and Trauma -- 7 Retrospectives on Revolution -- 8 Labyrinthine Narratives and Peripheral Intellectuals -- Conclusion -- Novels Examined in This Study -- Bibliography -- Index. Labyrinths, Intellectuals and the Revolution traces the development of the postcolonial Arabic-language Moroccan novel from its roots in travel narratives and autobiography into its more mature period of stylistic and thematic diversity in the early 1970s. This study first undertakes an exploration of the political, social and artistic conditions under which the genre developed, then moves to close readings of each of the formative texts, grouped by theme. The analysis of these texts centers around their spatial practices: there is a tension between the labyrinthine space of the street, which deflects legibility, and the sacred interior within the blank walls, wherein a certain equality of gaze and power can be perceived

     
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    ISBN: 9789004247697
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    Series: Studies in the history and society of the Maghrib ; v. 4
    Subjects: Arabic fiction; Space in literature; Intellectuals in literature; Revolutionaries in literature; Postcolonialism in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / African
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  4. The People's Right to the Novel
    War Fiction in the Postcolony
    Author: Coundouriotis, Eleni
    Published: [2014]; © 2014
    Publisher:  Fordham University Press, New York, NY

    This study offers a literary history of the war novel in Africa. Coundouriotis argues that this genre, aimed more specifically at African readers than the continent’s better-known bildungsroman tradition, nevertheless makes an important intervention... more

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    This study offers a literary history of the war novel in Africa. Coundouriotis argues that this genre, aimed more specifically at African readers than the continent’s better-known bildungsroman tradition, nevertheless makes an important intervention in global understandings of human rights.The African war novel lies at the convergence of two sensibilities it encounters in European traditions: the naturalist aesthetic and the discourse of humanitarianism, whether in the form of sentimentalism or of human rights law. Both these sensibilities are present in culturally hybrid forms in the African war novel, reflecting its syncretism as a narrative practice engaged with the colonial and postcolonial history of the continent.The war novel, Coundouriotis argues, stakes claims to collective rights that contrast with the individualism of the bildungsroman tradition. The genre is a form of people’s history that participates in a political struggle for the rights of the dispossessed

     
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    ISBN: 9780823262359
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    Subjects: Africa; Human Rights; War novel; gender; humanitarianism; naturalism; people's history; postcolonial studies; war; world novel; LITERARY CRITICISM / African; African fiction (English); African fiction (French); Literature and society; War in literature
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  5. The Tongue-Tied Imagination
    Decolonizing Literary Modernity in Senegal
    Author: Warner, Tobias
    Published: [2019]; © 2019
    Publisher:  Fordham University Press, New York, NY

    Should a writer work in a former colonial language or in a vernacular? The language question was one of the great, intractable problems that haunted postcolonial literatures in the twentieth century, but it has since acquired a reputation as a dead... more

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    Should a writer work in a former colonial language or in a vernacular? The language question was one of the great, intractable problems that haunted postcolonial literatures in the twentieth century, but it has since acquired a reputation as a dead end for narrow nationalism. This book returns to the language question from a fresh perspective. Instead of asking whether language matters, The Tongue-Tied Imagination explores how the language question itself came to matter. Focusing on the case of Senegal, Warner investigates the intersection of French and Wolof. Drawing on extensive archival research and an under-studied corpus of novels, poetry, and films in both languages, as well as educational projects and popular periodicals, the book traces the emergence of a politics of language from colonization through independence to the era of neoliberal development. Warner reads the francophone works of well-known authors such as Léopold Senghor, Ousmane Sembène, Mariama Bâ, and Boubacar Boris Diop alongside the more overlooked Wolof-language works with which they are in dialogue.Refusing to see the turn to vernacular languages only as a form of nativism, The Tongue-Tied Imagination argues that the language question opens up a fundamental struggle over the nature and limits of literature itself. Warner reveals how language debates tend to pull in two directions: first, they weave vernacular traditions into the normative patterns of world literature; but second, they create space to imagine how literary culture might be configured otherwise. Drawing on these insights, Warner brilliantly rethinks the terms of world literature and charts a renewed practice of literary comparison

     
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    ISBN: 9780823284313
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    Subjects: Colonialism; Comparative Literature; Decolonization; Francophone Literature; Language Question; Postcolonial Literature; Senegal; Translation; Wolof Literature; World Literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / African; Postcolonialism in literature; Senegalese literature (French); Senegalese literature (French); Senegalese literature; Senegalese literature
    Scope: 1 online resource (320 pages), 12
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  6. At penpoint
    African literatures, postcolonial studies, and the Cold War
    Author: Popescu, Monica
    Published: [2020]; © 2020
    Publisher:  Duke University Press, Durham ; London

    In At Penpoint Monica Popescu traces the development of African literature during the second half of the twentieth century to address the intertwined effects of the Cold War and decolonization on literary history. Popescu draws on archival materials... more

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    In At Penpoint Monica Popescu traces the development of African literature during the second half of the twentieth century to address the intertwined effects of the Cold War and decolonization on literary history. Popescu draws on archival materials from the Soviet-sponsored Afro-Asian Writers Association and the CIA-funded Congress for Cultural Freedom alongside considerations of canonical literary works by Ayi Kwei Armah, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Ousmane Sembène, Pepetela, Nadine Gordimer, and others. She outlines how the tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union played out in the aesthetic and political debates among African writers and intellectuals. These writers decolonized aesthetic canons even as superpowers attempted to shape African cultural production in ways that would advance their ideological and geopolitical goals. Placing African literature at the crossroads of postcolonial theory and studies of the Cold War, Popescu provides a new reassessment of African literature, aesthetics, and knowledge production

     
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    ISBN: 9781478012153
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    Series: Theory in forms
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / African; African literature; African literature; Cold War; Literature and society; Politics and literature; Postcolonialism; Ost-West-Konflikt; Literatur
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 258 Seiten)
  7. Complicities
    The Intellectual and Apartheid
    Author: Sanders, Mark
    Published: [2002]; © 2002
    Publisher:  Duke University Press, Durham

    Complicities explores the complicated-even contradictory-position of the intellectual who takes a stand against political policies and ideologies. Mark Sanders argues that intellectuals cannot avoid some degree of complicity in what they oppose and... more

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    Complicities explores the complicated-even contradictory-position of the intellectual who takes a stand against political policies and ideologies. Mark Sanders argues that intellectuals cannot avoid some degree of complicity in what they oppose and that responsibility can only be achieved with their acknowledgment of this complicity. He examines the role of South African intellectuals by looking at the work of a number of key figures-both supporters and opponents of apartheid.Sanders gives detailed analyses of widely divergent thinkers: Afrikaner nationalist poet N. P. van Wyk Louw, Drum writer Bloke Modisane, Xhosa novelist A. C. Jordan, Afrikaner dissident Breyten Breytenbach, and Black Consciousness leader Steve Biko. Drawing on theorists including Derrida, Sartre, and Fanon, and paying particular attention to the linguistic intricacy of the literary and political texts considered, Sanders shows how complicity emerges as a predicament for intellectuals across the ideological and social spectrum. Through discussions of the colonial intellectuals Olive Schreiner and Sol T. Plaatje and of post-apartheid feminist critiques of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Complicities reveals how sexual difference joins with race to further complicate issues of collusion.Complicities sheds new light on the history and literature of twentieth-century South Africa as it weighs into debates about the role of the intellectual in public life

     
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    Contributor: Jewsiewicki, Bogumil (Publisher); Mudimbe, V. Y. (Publisher)
    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9780822384229
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    Series: Philosophy and Postcoloniality
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / African; Apartheid in literature; Apartheid; South African literature
    Scope: 1 online resource (288 pages)
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  8. Handbuch Literatur & Emotionen
    Published: [2016]; ©2016
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin ; Boston

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    Language: German
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    ISBN: 9783110303247
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    Series: Handbücher zur kulturwissenschaftlichen Philologie ; 4
    Other subjects: Cultural Studies; Emotional Turn; Emotionen / i.d. Literatur; Emotions in literature; Kulturwissenschaft; emotional turn; LITERARY CRITICISM / African
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  9. Transnational discourses on class, gender, and cultural identity
    Author: Marques, Irene
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Purdue Univ. Press, West Lafayette, Ind.

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    ISBN: 9781557536051; 9781612491646; 9781612491653
    RVK Categories: EC 2450
    Series: Comparative cultural studies
    Subjects: Political fiction; Other (Philosophy) in literature; Identity (Psychology) in literature; Postcolonialism in literature; Language and languages in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American; LITERARY CRITICISM / African; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory; Kulturelle Identität; Politischer Roman; Geschlechterverhältnis
    Other subjects: Couto, Mia; Saramago, José; Lispector, Clarice; Coetzee, J. M; Lispector, Clarice (1920-1977): A hora da estrela; Couto, Mia (1955-): Contos do nascer da terra; Saramago, José (1922-2010): O ano da morte de Ricardo Reis; Coetzee, J. M. (1940-): Life and times of Michael K.
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    "This exploration of class, feminism, and cultural identity (including issues of race, nation, colonialism, and economic imperialism) focuses on the work of four writers: the Mozambican Mia Couto, the Portuguese José Saramago, the Brazilian Clarice Lispector, and the South African J.M. Coetzee. In the first section, the author discusses the political aspects of Couto's collection of short stories Contos do nascer da terra (Stories of the Birth of the Land) and Saramago's novel O ano da morte de Ricardo Reis (The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis). The second section explores similar themes in Coetzee's Life and Times of Michael K and Lispector's A hora da estrela (The Hour of the Star). Marques argues that these four writers are political in the sense that they bring to the forefront issues pertaining to the power of literature to represent, misrepresent, and debate matter related to different subaltern subjects: the postcolonial subject, the poor subject (the "poor other"), and th

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  10. British Colonial realism in Africa
    inalienable objects, contested domains
    Author: Spillman, Deborah Shapple
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke [u.a.]

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  11. The poetry of Arab women
    from the pre-Islamic age to Andalusia
    Contributor: Elmeligi, Wessam (Übersetzer)
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon ; Taylor & Francis Group, London

    This is a compilation of poetry written by Arabic women poets from pre-Islamic times to the end of the Abbasid caliphate and Andalusia, and offers translations of over 200 poets together with literary commentary on the poets and their poetry. This... more

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    This is a compilation of poetry written by Arabic women poets from pre-Islamic times to the end of the Abbasid caliphate and Andalusia, and offers translations of over 200 poets together with literary commentary on the poets and their poetry. This critical anthology presents the poems of more than 200 Arabic women poets active from the 600s through the 1400s CE. It marks the first appearance in English translation for many of these poems. The volume includes biographical information about the poets, as well as an analysis of the development of women's poetry in classical Arabic literature that places the women and the poems within their cultural context. The book fills a noticeable void in modern English-language scholarship on Arabic women, and has important implications for the fields of world and Arabic literature as well as gender and women's studies. The book will be a fascinating and vital text for students and researchers in the fields of Gender Studies and Middle Eastern studies, as well as scholars and students of translation studies, comparative literature, literary theory, gender studies, Arabic literature, and culture and classics

     
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    Contributor: Elmeligi, Wessam (Übersetzer)
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    ISBN: 9780429451317; 0429451318; 9780429836312; 0429836317; 9780429836336; 0429836333; 9780429836329; 0429836325
    RVK Categories: EN 2730
    Series: Focus on global gender and sexuality
    Subjects: Arabisch; Lyrikerin; Arabic poetry; Arabic poetry; Arabic poetry; Arbaic poetry; Arabic poetry; LITERARY CRITICISM / African; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
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  12. Routledge handbook of minority discourses in African literature
    Contributor: Ojaide, Tanure (Herausgeber); Ashuntantang, Joyce (Herausgeber)
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Routledge, London ; Taylor & Francis Group

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    Contributor: Ojaide, Tanure (Herausgeber); Ashuntantang, Joyce (Herausgeber)
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    ISBN: 9780429354229
    RVK Categories: EC 1878 ; EP 20023
    Subjects: Literatur; Sprachliche Minderheit; African literature; Minorities in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / African; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies
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  13. Ngugi wa Thiong'o
    nationalism, ethnicity and resistance
    Author: Chakraborty, Amitayu
    Published: 2024
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York ; Taylor & Francis Group, London

    "As a part of Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literature, the book explores the complex of ways in which Ngugi wa Thiong'o wrestles with issues of nationalism and ethnicity through his politically subversive and creatively intense literary texts.... more

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    "As a part of Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literature, the book explores the complex of ways in which Ngugi wa Thiong'o wrestles with issues of nationalism and ethnicity through his politically subversive and creatively intense literary texts. His novels and plays are fraught with his anxiety, resistance and defiance concerning Gikuyu ethnicity, Kenyan nationalism and a curious, Globalectic imaginary"--...

     
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    ISBN: 9781003286035; 1003286038; 9781003854883; 1003854885; 9781003854869; 1003854869
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    Series: Routledge research in postcolonial literatures
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / African
    Other subjects: Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo (1938-)
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  14. Postmodern reading of contemporary East African fiction
    modernist dream and the demise of culture
    Author: Nyongesa, Andrew Wafula
    Published: 2024
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York ; Taylor & Francis Group, London

    "This book likens writers' incessant focus on racism, negative ethnicity, patriarchy, and social stratification in societies to a naïve physician who prescribes analgesics to treat symptoms while the the underlying cause of the disease seethes in the... more

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    "This book likens writers' incessant focus on racism, negative ethnicity, patriarchy, and social stratification in societies to a naïve physician who prescribes analgesics to treat symptoms while the the underlying cause of the disease seethes in the blood. In the same way, the person who consistently blames their reckless conduct and shabbiness misses the point if they do not transform the actual cause of the problem: the mind. While most literary scholars problematize gender disparities, racial and political othering, oppression, environment degradation, education matters, poor parenting and governance, they tend to disregard the root cause: modernism. This book finds a gap in this grey area to address the authentic cause of the symptoms that most literary writers and scholars treat. Pertinent modernist tenets such as bureaucracy, the nation state, systematization and rationality, and dualism are at the heart of racism, corruption and other aforementioned symptoms. It is the contention of this study that postmodernism offers a comprehensive understanding of modernism to mitigate its effects on society"--...

     
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    ISBN: 9781003440888; 1003440886; 9781003854784; 1003854788; 9781003854807; 100385480X
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    Subjects: East African literature (English); East African literature; East African literature; East African literature; Modernism (Literature); Postmodernism (Literature); LITERARY CRITICISM / African
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  15. Care and crisis in Chinua Achebe's novels
    Author: Akwanya, Amechi
    Published: 2024
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York, NY ; Taylor & Francis Group, London

    "This book is a new study of Chinua Achebe's novels in which they are read as works of literary art, as literary works are studied and discussed within the discipline of literary studies and criticism. A central concept, care, which is a humane... more

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    "This book is a new study of Chinua Achebe's novels in which they are read as works of literary art, as literary works are studied and discussed within the discipline of literary studies and criticism. A central concept, care, which is a humane value, is found to run in the texts, and is the crux of the test that the major characters are subjected to. What challenges them as things to be taken care of through concern may be a human being in a dire circumstance, as with Ikemefuna (Things Fall Apart), the human group itself exposed to famine in what should be harvest time (Arrow of God), or the state which needs to be brought to its proper being, as Heidegger would say (No Longer at Ease and A Man of the People), or human suffering calling to be relieved (Anthills of the Savannah). The novels are all in the tragic mode, because intervention is under some kind of interdiction"--...

     
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    ISBN: 9781003471127; 1003471129; 9781040017708; 1040017703; 9781040017753; 1040017754
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    Subjects: Nigerian fiction (English); Conduct of life in literature; Communities in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / African
    Other subjects: Achebe, Chinua; Achebe, Chinua
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    "'Care and Crisis in Chinua Achebe's Novels' is a revised and expanded version of the 4th University of Nigeria Valedictory Lecture given by the author, Professor A.N. Akwanya on 01 December 2022 entitled 'No Longer a Tribe: Chinua Achebe, the Novel, and Optimistic Postcoloniality, University of Nigeria Senate Ceremonials Committee, 2022 at Princess Alexandra Auditorium, University of Nigeria, Nsukka
  16. Christianity and the African counter-discourse in Achebe and Beti
    cultures in dialogue, contest and conflict
    Author: Yiğit, Ali
    Published: 2024
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York ; Taylor & Francis Group, London

    "Christianity and the African Counter-Discourse in Achebe and Beti: Cultures in Dialogue, Contest and Conflict intervenes, in light of African literary products, the history of Christianity in Africa in late 19th and early 20th centuries, goes beyond... more

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    "Christianity and the African Counter-Discourse in Achebe and Beti: Cultures in Dialogue, Contest and Conflict intervenes, in light of African literary products, the history of Christianity in Africa in late 19th and early 20th centuries, goes beyond the existing clichés about the operations of the European Christian missionaries whether Protestant or Catholic in Africa, and opens alternative ways to read the chain of missionary-native African, and missionary-European colonists relationships. Christian missionaries did not come to Africa for: their own interests, the Christianization of Africa, European colonial projects, the interests of Africans, the establishment of European civilization in Africa, but came for all. Once, there was a dialogue between the Christian missionaries and pagan Africans which was in time replaced by contest for superiority, and finally by conflict. Accordingly, the countenance of the continent has changed forever"--...

     
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  17. Sindiwe Magona and the power of paradox
    challenging the polarization of South African discourse
    Author: Schatteman, Renée
    Published: 2024
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York ; Taylor & Francis Group, London

    "This book examines the work of Sindiwe Magona, one of South Africa's most prolific and ground-breaking writers, widely recognised for highlighting the everyday experiences of women and the domestic side of apartheid. A pioneer among black African... more

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    "This book examines the work of Sindiwe Magona, one of South Africa's most prolific and ground-breaking writers, widely recognised for highlighting the everyday experiences of women and the domestic side of apartheid. A pioneer among black African women writers, she is equally respected as storyteller, advocate for children's education, activist for HIV/AIDS awareness, and champion of indigenous languages. In this book, Renée Schatteman contends that Magona's most important contribution comes through her refusal to choose sides in the contentious debates that have polarized public discourse following apartheid. By straddling two (or more) sides of a controversy and challenging any who do harm to others (and to the nation), regardless of their position, she blurs distinctions that are assumed to be absolute, opens new avenues of understanding, and inspires alternative visions for the future. By occupying the space of paradox, she undermines the closed epistemological structures inherited from apartheid and champions the need for interdependence, truth-telling, and dialogue. Covering her creative production over three decades (which includes novels, autobiographies and biographies, short story collections, children's books, and literature about HIV/AIDS), this book is an essential read for Magona enthusiasts as well as for researchers of African literature and postcolonial South Africa"--...

     
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  18. The Zimbabwean maverick
    Dambudzo Marechera and utopian thinking
    Author: Chow-Quesada, Shun Man Emily
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York ; Taylor & Francis Group, London

    "This book seeks to unfold the complexity within the works of Dambudzo Marechera and presents scholars and readers with a way of reading his works in light of utopian thinking. Writing during a traumatic transitional period in Zimbabwe's history,... more

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    "This book seeks to unfold the complexity within the works of Dambudzo Marechera and presents scholars and readers with a way of reading his works in light of utopian thinking. Writing during a traumatic transitional period in Zimbabwe's history, Marechera witnessed the upheavals caused by different parties battling for power in the nation. Aware of the fact that all institutionalized narratives - whether they originated from the colonial governance of the UK, Ian Smith's white minority regime, or Zimbabwe's revolutionary parties - appeal to visions of a utopian society but reveal themselves to be fiction, Marechera imagined a unique utopia. For Marechera, utopia is not a static entity but a moment of perpetual change. He rethinks utopia by phrasing it as an ongoing event that ceaselessly contests institutionalized narratives of the postcolonial self and its relationship to society. Marechera writes towards a vision of an alternative future for the country. Yet, it is a vision that does not constitute a fully rounded sense of utopia. Being cautious about the world and the operation of power upon the people, rather than imposing his own utopian ideals, Marechera chooses instead to destabilize the narrative constitution of the self in relation to society in order to turn towards a truly radical utopian thinking that empowers the individual"--...

     
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    ISBN: 9781003318835; 1003318835; 9781000646542; 1000646548; 9781000646528; 1000646521
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    Series: Literary criticism and cultural theory ; 1
    Subjects: Utopias in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / African
    Other subjects: Marechera, Dambudzo
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  19. Mazisi Kunene
    literature, activism, and African worldview
    Author: Okoro, Dike
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon ; Taylor & Francis Group, London

    "This book examines the life and work of Mazisi Kunene, the only recognized poet laureate of Africa, a Nobel Prize nominee, and a key symbol of African cultural independence. Kunene is widely recognized for his epic poems that assert cultural... more

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    "This book examines the life and work of Mazisi Kunene, the only recognized poet laureate of Africa, a Nobel Prize nominee, and a key symbol of African cultural independence. Kunene is widely recognized for his epic poems that assert cultural identity and condemn the disruption of the growth and development of African culture through colonialism/postcolonialism. This book explores how 'oraliterature' and cultural traditions informed Kunene's poetry, how Kunene's poetry highlights African women and mothers, and how activism, mythology and transnational identities are depicted in his verse to promote cultural and generational continuities from Africa to the Diasporic Africans. Drawing on a range of interviews and comparative studies, the book situates Kunene's work in a wider conversation about South African social struggles. This book is an important contribution to our understanding of one of the giants of African literary history. As such, it will be of interest to researchers across African literary and postcolonial studies"--...

     
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  20. Transforming family
    queer kinship and migration in contemporary francophone literature
    Author: Frelier, Jocelyn
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln ; ProQuest, Ann Arbor, Michigan

    Transforming Family examines a selection of novels penned by francophone authors who imagine familial aspiration that is decolonial and queer, questioning how family relates to race, gender, class, embodiment, and intersectionality more

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    Transforming Family examines a selection of novels penned by francophone authors who imagine familial aspiration that is decolonial and queer, questioning how family relates to race, gender, class, embodiment, and intersectionality

     
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  21. Coloniality and migrancy in African diasporic literatures
    Author: Moopi, Peter; Makombe, Rodwell
    Published: 2024
    Publisher:  Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon ; Taylor & Francis Group, London

    "This book explores literary representations of African immigrant experiences in Western countries, against the backdrop of colonial stereotypes and recent expressions of anti-immigrant sentiment in Europe and America. The book deploys the concept of... more

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    "This book explores literary representations of African immigrant experiences in Western countries, against the backdrop of colonial stereotypes and recent expressions of anti-immigrant sentiment in Europe and America. The book deploys the concept of coloniality of migrancy to explore how global coloniality continues to shape the identities and lived experiences of African immigrants as represented in African diasporic literatures. It considers the persistence of racist and discriminatory attitudes and patterns of thought that developed during slavery and colonialism, and asks to what extent it is possible for African immigrants to transcend race in their configuration of their identity. Five key twenty-first century African diasporic novels are considered in the analysis: Imbolo Mbue's Behold the Dreamers, Dave Eggers' What is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah, NoViolet Bulawayo's We Need New Names and Helon Habila's Travellers. Overall, the book demonstrates that despite the hostility migrants of colour encounter, Africans are shunning the victimhood of colonialism and slavery and finding alternative ways of navigating and inhabiting the modern world. Foregrounding the usefulness of decoloniality and postcolonial theory as theoretical tools, this book will be an invaluable resource to researchers across the fields of African literature, migration, sociology, politics, and decolonial studies"--...

     
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  22. The Routledge handbook of the new African diasporic literature
    Contributor: Losambe, Lokangaka (Herausgeber); Ojaide, Tanure (Herausgeber)
    Published: 2024
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York ; Taylor & Francis Group, London

    "The Routledge Handbook of the New African Diasporic Literature introduces world literature readers to the transnational, multivocal writings of immigrant African authors. Covering works produced in Europe, North America, and elsewhere in the world,... more

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    "The Routledge Handbook of the New African Diasporic Literature introduces world literature readers to the transnational, multivocal writings of immigrant African authors. Covering works produced in Europe, North America, and elsewhere in the world, the book investigates three major aesthetic paradigms in African diasporic literature: the Sankofan wave (late 1960s- early 1990s); the Janusian wave (1990s-2020s); and the Offshoots of the New Arrivants (those born and growing up outside Africa). Written by well-established and emerging scholars of African and diasporic literatures from across the world, the chapters in the book cover the works of well-known and not so well-known Anglophone, Francophone, and Lusophone writers from different theoretical positionalities and critical approaches, pointing out the unique innovative artistic qualities of this major subgenre of African literature. The focus on the "diasporic consciousness" of the writers and their works sets this handbook apart from others that solely emphasize migration, which is more of a process than the community of settled African people involved in the dynamic acts of living reflected in diasporic writings. This book will appeal to researchers and students from across the fields of Literature, Diaspora Studies, African Studies, Migration Studies, and Postcolonial Studies"--...

     
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    Contributor: Losambe, Lokangaka (Herausgeber); Ojaide, Tanure (Herausgeber)
    Language: English
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    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1003396690; 9781040013977; 104001397X; 9781040013984; 1040013988; 9781003396697
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    Subjects: Literature, Modern; Literature, Modern; Literature, Modern; Authors, Black; African diaspora; Immigrants' writings; LITERARY CRITICISM / African
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  23. Emotional transitions in contemporary Afrodiasporic women's writing
    defying the ontology of the stranger
    Author: Suárez-Rodríguez, Ángela
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York, NY ; Taylor & Francis Group, London

    "This book is an in-depth study of the category "stranger" as represented in four contemporary Afrodiasporic novels of female authorship: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah, Sefi Atta's A Bit of Difference, NoViolet Bulawayo's We Need New Names... more

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    "This book is an in-depth study of the category "stranger" as represented in four contemporary Afrodiasporic novels of female authorship: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah, Sefi Atta's A Bit of Difference, NoViolet Bulawayo's We Need New Names and Imbolo Mbue's Behold the Dreamers. Examined from an interdisciplinary perspective that brings together different approaches to the figure of the stranger and Affect Theory, the plurality of experiences of estrangement, disorientation and unbelonging portrayed in these texts allows expansion upon Sara Ahmed's (2000) investigation of "stranger fetishism" and, in so doing, contributes to the recent call for a more nuanced understanding of the idea of "stranger". In particular, the critical and comparative study of the different migration experiences of the protagonists reveals that, within the framework of the contemporary African diaspora to the West, "strange(r)ness" is a situated, embodied and emotional condition that depends on the politics of location and of identity from which it emerges. This book will particularly appeal to scholars and students in the fields of Postcolonial Studies, African Diaspora Studies and Black Women's Literature, and will also be suitable for students at graduate and advanced undergraduate levels in English Studies"--...

     
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  24. Feminism and modernity in Anglophone African women's writing
    a 21st-century global context
    Author: Pucherová, Dobrota Alz̆beta
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon ; Taylor & Francis Group, London

    "This book re-reads the last sixty years of Anglophone African women's writing from a transnational and trans-historical feminist perspective, rather than postcolonial, from which these texts have been traditionally interpreted. Such a comparative... more

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    "This book re-reads the last sixty years of Anglophone African women's writing from a transnational and trans-historical feminist perspective, rather than postcolonial, from which these texts have been traditionally interpreted. Such a comparative frame throws into relief patterns across time and space that make it possible to situate this writing as an integral part of women's literary history. Revisiting this literature in a comparative context with Western women writers since the 18th century, the author highlights how invocations of "tradition" have been used by patriarchy everywhere to subjugate women, the similarities between women's struggles worldwide, and the feminist imagination it produced. The author argues that in the 21st century, African feminism has undergone a major epistemic shift: from a culturally exclusive to a relational feminism that conceptualizes African femininity through the risky opening oneself to otherness, transculturation, and translation. Like Western feminists in the 1960s, contemporary African women writers are turning their attention to the female body as the prime site of women's oppression and freedom, reframing feminism as a demand for universal human rights and actively shaping global discourses on gender, modernity, and democracy. The book will be of interest to students and researchers of African literature, but also feminist literary scholars and comparatists more generally"--...

     
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    ISBN: 9781003255932; 1003255930; 9781000620269; 1000620263; 9781000620290; 1000620298
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    Series: Routledge African diaspora literary and cultural studies
    Subjects: African literature (English); African literature; Feminist literature; Feminism and literature; Human body in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / African; LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors
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  25. On literary attachment in South Africa
    tough love
    Author: Chapman, Michael
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York, NY ; Taylor & Francis Group, London

    This book reflects on the "literary" in literature. Less ideologically construed, more affirmative of literary attachment, the study adopts a style of intimacy - its "tough love" - in a correlation between the creative work and the critical act.... more

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    This book reflects on the "literary" in literature. Less ideologically construed, more affirmative of literary attachment, the study adopts a style of intimacy - its "tough love" - in a correlation between the creative work and the critical act. Instead of configuring literary works to "state-of-the-nation" issues - the usual approach to literature from South Africa - the chapters keep alive a space for conversation, whether accented inwards to locality or outwards to the Anglophone world: the world to which literature in South Africa continues to belong, albeit as a "problem child". A postcolony that is not quite a postcolony, South Africa is richly but frustratingly textured between Africa and the West, or the South and the North. Its literature - hovering on the cusp of its locality and its global reach - raises peculiar questions of reader reception, epistemological and aesthetic frame, and archival use. Are the Nobel laureates Nadine Gordimer and J.M. Coetzee local writers or global writers? Is the novel or the short story the more appropriate form at the edges of metropolitan cultures? Given language, race, and culture contestation, how do we recover Bushman expression for contemporary use? How to consider the aesthetic appeal of two contemporaneous works, one in English the other in isiXhosa, the one indebted to Bloomsbury modernism the other to African custom? How does Douglas Livingstone attach the Third World to the First World in both science and poetry? What has a "born free" novelist, Kopano Matlwa, got to do with the Bard of Avon? In a time of theorisation, is it permissible for Lewis Nkosi to embody literary criticism in an autobiographical journey? How to read the rupturing event - the statue of Rhodes must fall - through a literary sensibility? Alert to the influence of critique, the study is equally alert to the "limits of critique". Reflecting on several writers, works, and events that do not feature in current publications, On Literary Attachment in South Africa releases literature to speak to us today, within the contours of its originating energy

     
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    ISBN: 9781000431759; 1000431754; 9781000431797; 1000431797; 9781003176237; 1003176232
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    Subjects: South African literature (English); South African literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / African; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory; LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading
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