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Author:   Tanure Ojaide
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.270kg
ISBN:  

9780367887469

ISBN 10:   0367887460
Pages:   136
Publication Date:   12 December 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Background; 2. John Barth and Modern African Literature: Exhaustion and Replenishment; 3. Michel Foucault and the Urhobo Udje Oral Poetic Tradition: Madness, Power, and Resistance; 4. Losing Cultural Ground in the Global Space: Africa’s Profit and Loss in Globalization; 5. Environmentalism in African Literature: Origins and Development; 6. Love, Sex, and Sexuality in African Folklore and Literature; 7. African Literature of Advocacy; 8. The New Orality in Contemporary African Literature; 9. The Present in the Everlasting: Overcoming Contemporaneity in African Poetry; 10. Literature and Political Leadership in Africa; 11. Theorizing Modern/Contemporary African Literature; 12. Conclusion: Towards a New African Literature in a Global Age.

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Tanure Ojaide is the Frank Porter Graham Professor of Africana Studies at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA. He has published nineteen poetry collections, four novels, three short story collections, two memoirs and six scholarly books.

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