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Comparative Approaches to African Literatures

Author : Bernth Lindfors
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004483721
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Comparative Approaches to African Literatures written by Bernth Lindfors and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-05-20 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some of the essays in this book - notably those concerned with examining Western influences on sub-Saharan African writings (tracing Shakespearean and Brechtian echoes in Nigerian drama, for instance, or following the footprints of Sherlock Holmes in Swahili detective fiction) - fit the traditional definition of comparative literature. These are essays that cross national literary boundaries and sometimes transcend language barriers as well. They look for correspondences in related literary phenomena from widely dispersed areas of the globe, bringing together what is akin from what is akimbo. But most of the essays included here involve closer comparisons. Two focus on works produced in different languages within the same African nation (Yoruba and English in Nigeria, Afrikaans and English in South Africa), and one presents a taxonomy of dominant literary forms in English in three East African nations. Others concentrate on the oeuvre of a single author, and on the likely future output of exiled writers who soon will be returning home. One essay contrasts discursive tendencies within the same text, and another investigates conflicting African and Western religious beliefs. A great variety of comparative methodologies is deployed here; not all of these are transnational, multilingual or pluralistic in scope. The last two groups of essays deal with matters of characterization and authorial reputation. Studies of the depiction of African Americans, politicians and women in a wide range of African literary texts are followed by an assessment of the current standing of anglophone Africa's leading authors. In entering such highly contested terrain, the comparatist approach adopted has been that of the neutral witness to early African attempts - comparatist in their own way - to define an African canon of classic texts. Authors discussed include: Ama Ata Aidoo (Ghana); Chinua Achebe, John Pepper Clark, Cyprian Ekwensi, D.O. Fagunwa, Wole Soyinka and Amos Tutuola (Nigeria); Peter Abrahams, J.M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, Alex La Guma, Thomas Mofolo, Es'kia Mphahlele and Karel Schoeman (South Africa).

Comparative Literature and African Literatures

Author : C. F. Swanepoel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Comparative Literature and African Literatures written by C. F. Swanepoel and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Comparative Approaches to Modern African Literature

Author : Samuel O. Asein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Comparative Approaches to Modern African Literature written by Samuel O. Asein and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Comparative Literature and African Literatures

Author : Albert S. Gérard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Comparative Literature and African Literatures written by Albert S. Gérard and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

West African Literatures

Author : Stephanie Newell
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199273979
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book West African Literatures written by Stephanie Newell and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006-06-08 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures series (general editor: Elleke Boehmer) offers stimulating and accessible introductions to definitive topics and key genres and regions within the rapidly diversifying field of postcolonial literary studies in English.This study of West African literatures interweaves the analysis of fiction, drama, and poetry with an exploration of the broader political, cultural, and intellectual contexts within which West African writers work. Anglophone literatures form the central focus of the book, with comparative comments on vernacular literature, francophone writing and oral literatures, and detailed discussion of selected francophone texts in translation (e.g., Senghor, Tadjo, Beyala, Bâ, Sembene). Movingfrom a discussion of nationalist and anti-colonial writing in the period before independence, towards the more experimental writings of contemporary authors such as Véronique Tadjo (Ivory Coast), Syl Cheney-Coker (Sierra Leone), and Kojo Laing (Ghana), the book constantly relates texts to the social andpolitical history of West Africa. Canonical, internationally well-known writers such as Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka are positioned in relation to the literary cultures and debates which surrounded them when they first produced their seminal texts; the discussions and disagreements which have grown up around their work in subsequent decades are also considered. The work of new and lesser-known writers is also considered, including Niyi Osundare (Nigeria) and Kofi Anyidoho (Ghana). In order toconvey a sense of the rich and complex societies that are clustered beneath the umbrella-term 'postcolonial', emphasis is placed on West Africa's diverse oral and popular cultures, and the ways in which local intellectuals and readers have responded to the most prominent authors through theaesthetic frameworks generated by these forms.

African Literature

Author : C. F. Swanepoel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book African Literature written by C. F. Swanepoel and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Contexts of African Literature

Author : Albert S. Gérard
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004484906
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Contexts of African Literature written by Albert S. Gérard and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-06-08 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Comparative Literature and African Literatures : a Series of Lectures Read at the University of South Africa in July 1981

Author : ed from the tape-recordings by Albert S Gerar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Comparative Literature and African Literatures : a Series of Lectures Read at the University of South Africa in July 1981 written by ed from the tape-recordings by Albert S Gerar and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

African Egalitarian Values and Indigenous Genres

Author : Eshete Gemeda
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643902336
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (439 download)

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Download or read book African Egalitarian Values and Indigenous Genres written by Eshete Gemeda and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2012 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eshete Gemeda is researcher at the University of Southern Denmark - Institute of Literature, Cultural Studies and Media. --Book Jacket.

African Politics in Comparative Perspective

Author : Goran Hyden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107030471
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book African Politics in Comparative Perspective written by Goran Hyden and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised and expanded second edition of African Politics in Comparative Perspective reviews fifty years of research on politics in Africa and addresses some issues in a new light, keeping in mind the changes in Africa since the first edition was written in 2004. The book synthesizes insights from different scholarly approaches and offers an original interpretation of the knowledge accumulated in the field. Goran Hyden discusses how research on African politics relates to the study of politics in other regions and mainstream theories in comparative politics. He focuses on such key issues as why politics trumps economics, rule is personal, state is weak and policies are made with a communal rather than an individual lens. The book also discusses why in the light of these conditions agriculture is problematic, gender contested, ethnicity manipulated and relations with Western powers a matter of defiance.

Comparative Literature as a Distinct Discipline

Author : Seun Ige
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Comparative Literature as a Distinct Discipline written by Seun Ige and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

African Literatures as World Literature

Author : Alexander Fyfe
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501379968
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book African Literatures as World Literature written by Alexander Fyfe and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-11-03 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The enormous success of writers such as Teju Cole and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie demonstrates that African literatures are now an international phenomenon. But the apparent global legibility of a small number of (mostly Anglophone) writers in the diaspora raises the question of how literary producers from the continent, both past and present, have situated their work in relation to the world and the kinds of material networks to which this corresponds. This collection shows how literatures from across the African continent engage with conceptualizations of 'the world' in relation to local social and political issues. Focusing on a wide variety of geographic, historical and linguistic contexts, the essays in this volume seek answers to the following questions: What are the topographies of 'the world' in different literary texts and traditions? What are that world's limits, boundaries and possibilities? How do literary modes and forms such as realism, narrative poetry or the political essay affect the presentation of worldliness? What are the material networks of circulation that allow African literatures to become world literature? African literatures, it emerges, do important theoretical work that speaks to the very core of world literary studies today.

Long Drums and Canons

Author : Bernth Lindfors
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Long Drums and Canons written by Bernth Lindfors and published by Africa Research and Publications. This book was released on 1995 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teaching and researching African literatures are relatively new academic enterprises, having come into their own only in the past thirty years or so.

Chaka

Author : Thomas Mofolo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1803288345
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Chaka written by Thomas Mofolo and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Mofolo's final novel and masterpiece, Chaka captures the phenomenal rise and fall of the great Zulu king. One of the earliest modern literary classics from Southern Africa, Chaka, is the tragic tale of a warrior-king and his insatiable hunger for power. Told in a mythic style, Chaka follows the torments of the Zulu king's early life, his rapid ascension to the throne, and the prophesied events that lead to his downfall. 'Chaka is a beautifully dark and twisted take on the true life story of the Zulu King ... built around one of the most enigmatic and memorable literary figures you'd ever encounter.' Ainehi Edoro

A Companion to Comparative Literature

Author : Ali Behdad
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118917359
Total Pages : 547 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (189 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Comparative Literature written by Ali Behdad and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Comparative Literature presents a collection of more than thirty original essays from established and emerging scholars, which explore the history, current state, and future of comparative literature. Features over thirty original essays from leading international contributors Provides a critical assessment of the status of literary and cross-cultural inquiry Addresses the history, current state, and future of comparative literature Chapters address such topics as the relationship between translation and transnationalism, literary theory and emerging media, the future of national literatures in an era of globalization, gender and cultural formation across time, East-West cultural encounters, postcolonial and diaspora studies, and other experimental approaches to literature and culture

The Teaching of African Literature

Author : Thomas Albert Hale
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Teaching of African Literature written by Thomas Albert Hale and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Companion to African Literatures

Author : Olakunle George
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119058171
Total Pages : 512 pages
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Download or read book A Companion to African Literatures written by Olakunle George and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-03-22 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rediscover the diversity of modern African literatures with this authoritative resource edited by a leader in the field How have African literatures unfolded in their rich diversity in our modern era of decolonization, nationalisms, and extensive transnational movement of peoples? How have African writers engaged urgent questions regarding race, nation, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality? And how do African literary genres interrelate with traditional oral forms or audio-visual and digital media? A Companion to African Literatures addresses these issues and many more. Consisting of essays by distinguished scholars and emerging leaders in the field, this book offers rigorous, deeply engaging discussions of African literatures on the continent and in diaspora. It covers the four main geographical regions (East and Central Africa, North Africa, Southern Africa, and West Africa), presenting ample material to learn from and think with. A Companion To African Literatures is divided into five parts. The first four cover different regions of the continent, while the fifth part considers conceptual issues and newer directions of inquiry. Chapters focus on literatures in European languages officially used in Africa -- English, French, and Portuguese -- as well as homegrown African languages: Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Swahili, and Yoruba. With its lineup of lucid and authoritative analyses, readers will find in A Companion to African Literatures a distinctive, rewarding academic resource. Perfect for undergraduate and graduate students in literary studies programs with an African focus, A Companion to African Literatures will also earn a place in the libraries of teachers, researchers, and professors who wish to strengthen their background in the study of African literatures.