Reading contemporary African literature : critical perspectives /
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| Imprint: | Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2013. |
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| Description: | 1 online resource (443 pages) : illustrations |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 163 Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 163. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11202557 |
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| 490 | 1 | |a Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; |v 163 | |
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references. | ||
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| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Section I: General Perspectives; 1. 'English Does Not Kill': Writing Lives in the Language of the 'Other'; Section II: Fiction; 2. A Stylistic Analysis of the Story Element in Ngugi's A Grain of Wheat; 3. Mahilet: A Laboratory of Stylistic Experimentation; 4. Through the Male Eyes: Gendered Styles in Contemporary Zambian Fiction; 5. Politics and Stylistics of Female (Re)Presentation in James Ng'ombe's Sugarcane with Salt; 6. Telling Lives: Myth, Metaphor and Metafiction in Zakes Mda's Cion. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 7. Politics and Poetics of Characterization in M.G. Vassanji's The Book of Secrets8. The Invisible Twin: Visibility and Identity in Marie-Thérèse Humbert's À l'autre bout de moi; 9. Thematic Design and Stylistic Patterns in Cameron Duodu's The Gab Boys; 10. 'We Can Redream this World and Make the Dream Real': The Utopian Quest in Ben Okri's Primary Myths; 11. Orality and the Emergence of Disrupted Narrative Voices in Charles Samupindi's Pawns; 12. 'Zimbolicious': Shona-English Stylistics in Lyrics and Literature; Section III: Poetry and Orature. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 13. Repression and Beyond: Ideological Commitment and Style in Jack Mapanje's and Steve Chimombo's Poetry14. Oguaa Aban and Cape Coast Castle: Same Edifice, Different Metaphors in the Poetry of Gaddiel Acquaah and Kwadwo Opuku-Agyemang; 15. Self and Nature: The Cean Dialogues; 16. Transitions in South African Urban Poetry: The City of Johannesburg in Three Poems of the Apartheid Period; 17. Verbal Fluidities and Masculine Anxieties of the Glocal Urban Imaginary in Kenyan Genge Rap; Section IV: Drama and Theatre; 18. Language Use and Identity Negotiation in Cameroonian Drama. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 19. Afrikaans and Afrikaner Nationalism in Deon Opperman's Donkerland20. 'Neither Peace nor War': The Role of Theatre in Re-Imagining the New Eritrea; Contributors. | |
| 520 | |a 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 Afri. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a African literature |x History and criticism. | |
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