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Author : Mandla Langa
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Rainbow on the Paper Sky written by Mandla Langa and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Larson
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429952547
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Under African Skies written by Charles Larson and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning a wide geographical range, this collection features many of the now prominent first generation of African writers and draws attention to a new generation of writers. Powerful, intriguing and essentially non-Western, these stories will be welcome by an audience truly ready for multicultural voices.
Author : André Viola
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004490361
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book New Fiction in English from Africa: West, East, and South written by André Viola and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-05-20 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term 'recent' or 'new' covers novels and some short fiction published between 1980 and 1995, a period characterized by growing pessimism about the state of affairs in both East and West Africa. The section on South Africa deals more narrowly with the 1985-95 watershed marking the end of official apartheid and the beginning of reconstruction. The three sections aim at giving a coherent picture of the main directions in production, highlighting three main centres of interest, Nigeria, Kenya, and the Republic of South Africa, although some novelists from neighbouring countries are also considered (such as Kofi Awoonor from Ghana, Nuruddin Farah from Somalia, and M.G. Vassanji and Abdulrazak Gurnah from Tanzania). The evaluations conducted in the three sections lead to the emergence of a number of common themes, in particular the writers' predilection for topicality, the role of the past, and the controversy over the idea of the nation. Central themes also include the role of women in fending for themselves, both in rural and in urban environments. A further major theme is the role of the past (the Nigerian civil war; the Mau Mau period in Kenya; the revisiting of slavery; the refurbishing of myth; the questioning of historical reconstructions). The preoccupation of the West, East, and South African novel with the idea and ideal of the 'nation' is explored, particularly in the context of migrancy, hybridity, and transculturalism characterizing the anglophone diaspora. The volume is aimed at literary scholars and students and, more generally, readers of fiction seeking an introduction to contemporary literary developments in various parts of sub-Saharan anglophone Africa. No categorical distinction is drawn between 'popular' and 'high' literature. Though still selective and not intended as an exhaustive catalogue, the present survey covers a large number of titles. Rather than resorting to broad and ultimately somewhat abstract thematic categories, the contributors endeavour to keep control over this mass of material by applying a 'micro-thematic' taxonomy. This approach, well-tested in the tradition of literary studies within France, groups works analytically and evaluatively in terms of such categories as actional motifs, plot-frames, and sociologically relevant locations or topics, thereby enabling a clearer focus on the dynamics of preoccupation and tendency that form networks of affinity across the fiction produced in the period surveyed.
Author : Simon Gikandi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134582234
Total Pages : 886 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of African Literature written by Simon Gikandi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most comprehensive reference work on African literature to date, this book covers all the key historical and cultural issues in the field. The Encyclopedia contains over 600 entries covering criticism and theory, African literature's development as a field of scholarship, and studies of established and lesser-known writers and their texts. While the greatest proportion of literary work in Africa has been a product of the twentieth century, the Encyclopedia also covers the literature back to the earliest eras of story-telling and oral transmission, making this a unique and valuable resource for those studying social sciences as well as humanities. This work includes cross-references, suggestions for further reading, and a comprehensive index.
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Total Pages : 938 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Research in African Literatures written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 938 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 1- , spring 1970- , include "A Bibliography of American doctoral dissertations on African literature," compiled by Nancy J. Schmidt.
Author : Annie Gagiano
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 3838266870
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (382 download)
Download or read book Dealing with Evils written by Annie Gagiano and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gareth Cornwell
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231503814
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book The Columbia Guide to South African Literature in English Since 1945 written by Gareth Cornwell and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-13 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the outset, South Africa's history has been marked by division and conflict along racial and ethnic lines. From 1948 until 1994, this division was formalized in the National Party's policy of apartheid. Because apartheid intruded on every aspect of private and public life, South African literature was preoccupied with the politics of race and social engineering. Since the release from prison of Nelson Mandela in 1990, South Africa has been a new nation-in-the-making, inspired by a nonracial idealism yet beset by poverty and violence. South African writers have responded in various ways to Njabulo Ndebele's call to "rediscover the ordinary." The result has been a kaleidoscope of texts in which evolving cultural forms and modes of identity are rearticulated and explored. An invaluable guide for general readers as well as scholars of African literary history, this comprehensive text celebrates the multiple traditions and exciting future of the South African voice. Although the South African Constitution of 1994 recognizes no fewer than eleven official languages, English has remained the country's literary lingua franca. This book offers a narrative overview of South African literary production in English from 1945 to the postapartheid present. An introduction identifies the most interesting and noteworthy writing from the period. Alphabetical entries provide accurate and objective information on genres and writers. An appendix lists essential authors published before 1945.
Author : Md Abu Shahid Abdullah
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527547884
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Download or read book Traumatic Experience and Repressed Memory in Magical Realist Novels written by Md Abu Shahid Abdullah and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-02 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the close association between the literary representation of historical trauma and the alternative narrative form of magical realism, underscoring the role of memory, empathy and imagination. It discusses the potential of magical realism to give a literary representation to individual and collective trauma arising from the Holocaust, slavery, and apartheid, and to turn those unspoken memories into narratives. It also analyses the role of magical realism in depicting trauma suffered by female victims during and following those events. Again, by dealing with the above-mentioned events, their specific historical context and universal meaning for humankind, this book highlights a universal experience of trauma.
Author : Clarence Bernard Henry
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000430995
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Global Jazz written by Clarence Bernard Henry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-30 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global Jazz: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography that explores the global impact of jazz, detailing the evolution of the African American musical tradition as it has been absorbed, transformed, and expanded across the world’s historical, political, and social landscapes. With more than 1,300 annotated entries, this vast compilation covers a broad range of subjects, people, and geographic regions as they relate to interdisciplinary research in jazz studies. The result is a vivid demonstration of how cultures from every corner of the globe have situated jazz—often regarded as America’s classical music—within and beyond their own musical traditions, creating new artistic forms in the process. Global Jazz: A Research and Information Guide presents jazz as a common musical language in a global landscape of diverse artistic expression.
Author : Francis Barker
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719048760
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (487 download)
Download or read book Colonial Discourse/ Postcolonial Theory written by Francis Barker and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book on post-colonial theory has a wide geographic range and a breadth of historical perspectives. Central to the book is a critique of the very idea of the 'postcolonial' itself.
Author : Tim Woods
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526130793
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)
Download or read book African pasts written by Tim Woods and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-30 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African pasts examines African literatures in English since the end of colonialism, investigating how they represents African history through the twin matrices of memory and trauma. Inextricably tied up with the historical conditions of Africa’s colonisation, charting the emergence of its independence, and scrutinising Africa’s contemporary neo-colonial and postcolonial states as a legacy of the colonial past, African literatures are continually preoccupied with exploring modes of representation to ‘work through’ their different traumatic colonial pasts. Among other issues, this book deals with literature in the era of apartheid, the post-apartheid aftermath, metafictional experiments in African fiction, gender representation in reaction to the trauma of colonialism and ‘imprisonment narratives’. African pasts covers a wide range of African literatures and a cross-section of genres – fiction, poetry, prison-narratives, postcolonial theory – and embraces such well-known writers as Soyinka, Coetzee, Ngugi and Achebe, and more recent writers such as Nuruddin Farah, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Achmat Dangor, Etienne van Heerden, Zakes Mda, Gillian Slovo and Calixthe Beyala.
Author : Simon Gikandi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190628162
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)
Download or read book The Novel in Africa and the Caribbean since 1950 written by Simon Gikandi and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-03 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did the novel take such a long time to emerge in the colonial world? And, what cultural work did it come to perform in societies where subjects were not free and modes of social organization diverged from the European cultural centers where the novel gained its form and audience? Answering these questions and more, Volume 11, The Novel in Africa and the Caribbean since 1950 explores the institutions of cultural production that exerted influence in late colonialism, from missionary schools and metropolitan publishers to universities and small presses. How these structures provoke and respond to the literary trends and social peculiarities of Africa and the Caribbean impacts not only the writing and reading of novels in those regions, but also has a transformative effect on the novel as a global phenomenon. Together, the volume's 32 contributing experts tell a story about the close relationship between the novel and the project of decolonization, and explore the multiple ways in which novels enable readers to imagine communities beyond their own and thus made this form of literature a compelling catalyst for cultural transformation. The authors show that, even as the novel grows in Africa and the Caribbean as a mark of the elites' mastery of European form, it becomes the essential instrument for critiquing colonialism and for articulating the new horizons of cultural nationalism. Within this historical context, the volume examines works by authors such as Chinua Achebe, Nadine Gordimer, George Lamming, Jamaica Kincaid, V.S. Naipaul, Zoe Wicomb, J. M. Coetzee, and many others.
Author : Derek Attridge
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1802070621
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)
Download or read book In a Province: Studies in the Writing of South Africa written by Derek Attridge and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together the most significant essays on South African literature by the distinguished critic Graham Pechey, who died in 2016. They combine an acute sense of the historical and geopolitical situation of South African writing before, during, and after apartheid with a sensitive ear to literary detail.
Author : Jabulisile Mhlambi
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 1920690174
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Mintirho ya Vulavula written by Jabulisile Mhlambi and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2021-04-19 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mintirho ya Vulavula: Arts, National Identities and Democracy examines the role of arts and culture in development, and specifically its value in consolidating our nascent democracy and in facilitating the transformation of South African society. Contributors to this edited volume interrogate the role of arts, culture and heritage from a transdisciplinary perspective, enriched by the cross-generational perspectives offered by young and older artists, cultural practitioners, activists and scholars. Authors also offer some policy recommendations on how the contribution of arts and culture to social cohesion and nation-building can be enhanced.
Author : Nina Schatzkamer Miller
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476603537
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book The Storytime Handbook written by Nina Schatzkamer Miller and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-23 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fresh, fun ideas for children's storytime fill this book. The author, a long-time storytime facilitator, has put together 52 weekly themes plus additional plans for holidays, all with detailed instructions for talking about the theme and choosing the books, crafts, songs, poems, games and snacks. Each storytime idea is illustrated with photographs of a suggested craft and snack for easy reference. Libraries, bookstores, preschools and parents alike can use this book to offer themed storytimes that include discussion, literature, art, music, movement and food. Options are provided for each storytime, so the ideas can be used year after year.
Author : Lokangaka Losambe
Publisher : Africa World Press
ISBN 13 : 9781592211371
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (113 download)
Download or read book An Introduction to the African Prose Narrative written by Lokangaka Losambe and published by Africa World Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays introduces students of African literature to the heritage of the African prose narrative, starting from its oral base and covering its linguistic and cultural diversity. The book brings together essays on both the classics and the relatively new works in all subgenres of the African prose narrative, including the traditional epic, the novel, the short story and the autobiography. The chapters are arranged according to the respective thematic paradigms under which the discussed works fall.
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Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Normal Instructor and Teachers World written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
