Overview

Reading Contemporary African Literature brings together scholarship on, critical debates about, and examples of reading African literature in all genres - poetry, fiction, and drama including popular culture. The anthology offers studies of African literature from interdisciplinary perspectives that employ sociological, historical, and ethnographic besides literary analysis of the literatures. It has assembled critical and researched essays on a range of topics, theoretical and empirical, by renowned critics and theorists of African literature that evaluate and provide examples of reading African literature that should be of interest to academics, researchers, and students of African literature, culture, and history amongst other subjects. Some of the essays examine authors that have received little or no attention to date in books on recent African literature. These essays provide new insights and scholarship that should broaden and deepen our understanding and appreciation of African literature.

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Author:   Reuben Makayiko Chirambo ,  J.K.S. Makokha
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Editions Rodopi B.V.
Volume:   163
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.797kg
ISBN:  

9789042036758

ISBN 10:   9042036753
Pages:   444
Publication Date:   01 January 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Moradewun Adejunmobi: Foreword Reuben Makayiko Chirambo & J. K. S. Makokha: Introduction Section I: General Perspectives Stella Borg Barthet: `English Does Not Kill': Writing Lives in the Language of the `Other' Section II: Fiction Sarala Krishnamurthy: A Stylistic Analysis of the Story Element in Ngugi's A Grain of Wheat Tewodros Gebre: Mahilet: A Laboratory of Stylistic Experimentation Cheela Chilala: Through the Male Eyes: Gendered Styles in Contemporary Zambian Fiction Nick Mdika Tembo: Politics and Stylistics of Female (Re)Presentation in James Ng'ombe's Sugarcane with Salt Marita Wenzel: Telling Lives: Myth, Metaphor and Metafiction in Zakes Mda's Cion J. K. S. Makokha: Politics and Poetics of Characterization in M. G. Vassanji's The Book of Secrets Stephanie Cox: The Invisible Twin: Visibility and Identity in Marie-Therese Humbert's A l'autre bout de moi Kofi Owusu: Thematic Design and Stylistic Patterns in Cameron Duodu's The Gab Boys Abiodun Adeniji: `We Can Redream this World and Make the Dream Real': The Utopian Quest in Ben Okri's Primary Myths Maurice Taonezvi Vambe: Orality and the Emergence of Disrupted Narrative Voices in Charles Samupindi's Pawns Flora Veit-Wild: `Zimbolicious': Shona-English Stylistics in Lyrics and Literature Section III: Poetry and Orature Reuben Makayiko Chirambo: Repression and Beyond: Ideological Commitment and Style in Jack Mapanje's and Steve Chimombo's Poetry Leonard Acquah: Oguaa Aban and Cape Coast Castle: Same Edifice, Different Metaphors in the Poetry of Gaddiel Acquaah and Kwadwo Opuku-Agyemang Gloria M. T. Emezue: Self and Nature: The Cean Dialogues Sonja Altnoder: Transitions in South African Urban Poetry: The City of Johannesburg in Three Poems of the Apartheid Period Chris Wasike: Verbal Fluidities and Masculine Anxieties of the Glocal Urban Imaginary in Kenyan Genge Rap Section IV: Drama and Theatre Kizitus Mpoche: Language Use and Identity Negotiation in Cameroonian Drama Marisa Keuris: Afrikaans and Afrikaner Nationalism in Deon Opperman's Donkerland Richard Boon: `Neither Peace nor War': The Role of Theatre in Re-Imagining the New Eritrea Contributors

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[...] un livre sans aucun doute tres interessant et actuel, dont les auteurs ont su examiner la condition postcoloniale de l'Afrique tout en nous donnant acces aux genres litteraires les plus varies parmi ceux qui sont produits actuellement sur ce continent, specialement dans l'aire anglophone. - Fernanda Vilar, 2015, pp. 217-219

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