Postcolonial imaginations and moral representations in African literature and culture /

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Author / Creator:	Eze, Chielozona.
Imprint:	Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, 2011.
Description:	1 online resource (xvii, 137 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	African literature -- History and criticism. Philosophy, African. African literature. Philosophy, African. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11403794

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ISBN:	9780739145081 0739145088 128066634X 9781280666346 9780739145067 0739145061 9786613643278 6613643270
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	Following in the footsteps of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, the tenor of the postcolonial African culture has been justifiably anti-imperialist. In the 21st century, however, there has been a gradual but certain shift away from the "write-back" discourse paradigm, towards more integrative, globally inflected cultural interpretive models in Africa. This book celebrates the emergence of new interpretive paradigms such as in African philosophy, gender studies and literature.
Other form:	Print version: 9780739145067

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments; Introduction: Postcolonial Imagination and Moral Representations-Africa in Discourse and Culture; Chapter One: Postcolonial States of Injury and Moral Imaginations; Chapter Two: The Moral Reinvention of Africa; Chapter Three: Things Fall Apart and the Invention of African Culture; Chapter Four: The Pitfalls of African Feminism; Chapter Five: Robert Mugabe and the Symbolic Power of History; Chapter Six: Frantz Fanon and the Search for New Discourse Paradigms; Chapter Seven: Wole Soyinka and the Moral Foundations of Community.

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