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Author : Sarah Barbour
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Emerging Perspectives on Maryse Condé written by Sarah Barbour and published by Africa Research and Publications. This book was released on 2006 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eva Sansavior
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781351193276
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (932 download)
Download or read book Maryse Conde and the Space of Literature written by Eva Sansavior and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eva Sansavior
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351193252
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book Maryse Conde and the Space of Literature written by Eva Sansavior and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-02 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Guadeloupean writer and critic Maryse Conde has for the last twenty-five years divided her time between her native Guadeloupe and the United States. If the author's work has attracted much critical attention in the United States, it is the fictional works that have been the focus of this attention with these predominantly read in the light of political themes such as identity and resistance. In these intelligent and sensitive readings, Eva Sansavior argues in favour of adopting a broader thematic and generic approach to the author's work. Sansavior accounts for the multiple and oblique uses of literature in the Conde's literary and critical work tracking its complex interactions with tradition, reception, politics and autobiography and also the singular possibilities that these interactions present for re-imagining the ideas of politics, literature, identity and, ultimately, the nature of critical practice itself."
Author : Marie Umeh
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 770 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Emerging Perspectives on Flora Nwapa written by Marie Umeh and published by Africa Research and Publications. This book was released on 1998 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first anthology devoted to the oeuvres of Africa's first internationally recognized female writer. Emerging Perspectives on Flora Nwapa reflects the scope and diversity of Nwapa's poetics, as contributions by today's leading Africanist scholars -- Julie Agabasiere, Ifi Amadiume, Susan Arndt, Ada Azodo, Naana Banyiwa Horne, Brenda F. Berrian, Jane Bryce, Akachi Ezeigbo, Ezenwa-Ohaeto, Nina Mba, Sabine Jell-Bahlsen, Mary E. Modupe-Kolawole, Teresa U. Njoku, Chimalum Nwankwo, Molara Ogundipe-Leslie, Obododimma Oha, Tess Onwueme, Florence Stratton, and Gay Wilentz -- subject the creative corpus of the "Mother of African Women's Literature" to serious scrutiny. This book is a mine of critical and theoretical insights on the author's complete works, most of which are now available in the United States through Africa World Press and Heinemann Educational Books, and serves as an essential guide to the writer's gender-specific concerns. This remarkable collection concludes with a transcript of Flora Nwapa's 1992 interview with Marie Umeh, conducted during the author's last tour of the United States; a chronology of Nwapa's life, works, and distinguished awards; an exhibition of private photographs, courtesy of her son Uzoma Nwakuche and collegue Nina Mba; as well as a detailed bibliography of works by and about Flora Nwapa. Students and scholars of African literature, anthropology, history, law, medicine, philosophy, religion, sociology, psychology, and women's studies will find in this book a full and fitting tribute to the shrewd, ubiquitous market women, the energetic female farmers, the sagacious wives and mothers, and the astute women chiefs and priestesses who found their voice, theirvalidation, and their vindication in Nigeria's foremost female writer -- Flora Nwapa!
Author : Anne M. François
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739148265
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Rewriting the Return of Africa written by Anne M. François and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2011-08-16 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rewriting The Return to Africa: Voices of Francophone Caribbean Women Writers examines the ways Guadeloupean women writers Maryse Condé, Simone Schwarz-Bart and Myriam Warner-Vieyra demystify the theme of the return to Africa as opposed to the its masculinist version by Négritude male writers from the 1930s to 1960s. Négritude, a cultural and literary movement, drew much of its strength from the idea of a mythical or cultural reconnection with the African past allegorized as a mother figure. In contrast these women writers, of the post-colonial era who are to large extent heirs of Négritude, differ sharply from their male counterparts in their representation of Africa. In their novels, the continent is not represented as a propitious mother figure but a disappointing father figure. This study argues that these women writers' subversion of the metaphorical figure of Africa and its transformation is tied to their gender. The women novelists are indeed critical of a female allegorization of the land that is reminiscent of a colonial or nationalist project and a simplistic representation of motherhood that does not reflect the complexities of the Diaspora's relation to origins and identity. Unlike the primary male writers of the Négritude movement, theycarefully "gendered" the notion of return by choosing female protagonists who made their way back to the Motherland in search of identity. I argue that writing is a more suitable space for the female subject seeking identity because it allows her to havea voice and become subject rather than object as that was the case with the Négritude writers. The women writers' shattering of the image of Mother Africa and subsequently that of Father Africa highlights the complex relationship between Africa and the Diaspora from a female point of view. It shifts the identity quest of the characters towards the Caribbean, which emerges as the real problematic mother: a multi-faceted, fragmented figure that reflects the constitutive clash that occurred in the archipelago between Europe, Africa, and the Americas where the issues of race, gender, class, culture, ethnicity, history, and language are very complex.
Author : Cristina Herrera
Publisher : Demeter Press
ISBN 13 : 1772580279
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (725 download)
Download or read book Reading/Speaking/Writing the Mother Text; Essays on Caribbean Women's Writing written by Cristina Herrera and published by Demeter Press. This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While scholarship on Caribbean women’s literature has grown into an established discipline, there are not many studies explicitly connected to the maternal subject matter, and among them only a few book-length texts have focalized motherhood and maternity in writings by Caribbean women. Reading/Speaking/Writing the Mother Text: Essays on Caribbean Women’s Writing encourages a crucial dialogue surrounding the state of motherhood scholarship within the Caribbean literary landscape, to call for attention on a theme that, although highly visible, remains understudied by academics. While this collection presents a similar comparative and diasporic approach to other book-length studies on Caribbean women’s writing, it deals with the complexity of including a wider geographical, linguistic, ethnic and generic diversity, while exposing the myriad ways in which Caribbean women authors shape and construct their texts to theorize motherhood, mothering, maternity, and mother-daughter relationships.
Author : Levack, Brian Paul Levack
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780815336723
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (367 download)
Download or read book New Perspectives on Witchcraft, Magic, and Demonology: Witchcraft in the British Isles and New England written by Levack, Brian Paul Levack and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2001 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Suzanne Manizza Roszak
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1786838680
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (868 download)
Download or read book Uncanny Youth written by Suzanne Manizza Roszak and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2022-05-15 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is written in an accessible style, and draws together a wide range of modern and contemporary Gothic texts from throughout the Americas (including Gothic drama as well as fiction). The title offers a decolonizing approach to the Gothic that has not previously been touched on much in the genre. The book is unique in its treatment of its subject; there are very few titles that study childhood and the Gothic in the Americas
Author : James Day
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042026499
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Translation in French and Francophone Literature and Film written by James Day and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2009 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume collects papers presented at the annual French Literature Conference, sponsored by the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures of the University of South Carolina.
Author : Mario Garrett
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527528367
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Download or read book Coming of Age in Films written by Mario Garrett and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-14 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of films is the story of human development. From the very first story that defined the birth of our civilization—the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh, a story of immortality, aging and death—comes a tale of why we age. We are a species of storytellers. The stories we tell to each other define who we are. However, since we are living in a world marked by age apartheid, our interaction with people across different generations is becoming more limited. As a result, the information we gain about older people comes mostly from secondary sources. For the general public, films remain the most accessible form of information regarding getting older. From the early exposure of cartoons to more elaborate dramas, our knowledge of what it means to become old relies on our exposure to films. This volume provides insight into how accurate these representations are in line with current knowledge that we have about aging and older adults. Arguing that films present a simplified view of aging, this analysis relies on scientific evidence to explore why and how such stereotypes affect us. Stereotypes have the ability of being internalized and becoming prescriptive of our behavior. Numerous studies have attempted different ways of understanding the impact films have on aging. Theories as seemingly disparate as feminism and disability have contributed to our understanding of how stereotypes influence our aging process. This text builds upon this knowledge and provides new insights by applying current gerontological knowledge—the science of aging—to unpack and analyze the images of aging that films are providing. By readdressing this focus on gerontological theories—as diverse as biology and psychology—the book readdresses an overlooked approach.
Author : Toyin Falola
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135212880
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)
Download or read book Facts, Fiction, and African Creative Imaginations written by Toyin Falola and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-09-11 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together insights from distinguished scholars from around the world to address the facts, fiction and creative imaginations in the pervasive portrayals of Africa, its people, societies and cultures in the literature and the media. The fictionalization of Africa and African issues in the media and the popular literature that blends facts and fiction has rendered perceptions of Africa, its cultures, societies, customs, and conflicts often superficial and deficient in the popular Western consciousness. The book brings eminent scholars from a variety of disciplines to sort out the persistent fictionalization of Africa, from facts pertaining to the genesis of powerful cultural, political or religious icons, the historical and cultural significance of "intriguing" customs (such as tribal marks), gender relations, causes of conflicts and African responses, and creative imaginations in contemporary African films, fiction and literature, among others.
Author : Rangira Béa Gallimore
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496215818
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)
Download or read book Art from Trauma written by Rangira Béa Gallimore and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2019-08 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the role of aesthetic expression in responding to discrimination, tragedy, violence, even genocide? How does gender shape responses to both literal and structural violence, including implicit linguistic, familial, and cultural violence? How might writing or other works of art contribute to healing? Art from Trauma: Genocide and Healing beyond Rwanda explores the possibility of art as therapeutic, capable of implementation by mental health practitioners crafting mental health policy in Rwanda. This anthology of scholarly, personal, and hybrid essays was inspired by scholar and activist Chantal Kalisa (1965–2015). At the commemoration of the nineteenth anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda, organized by the Rwandan Embassy in Washington DC, Kalisa gave a presentation, “Who Speaks for the Survivors of the Genocide against Tutsi?” Kalisa devoted her energy to giving expression to those whose voices had been distorted or silenced. The essays in this anthology address how the production and experience of visual, dramatic, cinematic, and musical arts, in addition to literary arts, contribute to healing from the trauma of mass violence, offering preliminary responses to questions like Kalisa’s and honoring her by continuing the dialogue in which she participated with such passion, sharing the work of scholars and colleagues in genocide studies, gender studies, and francophone literatures.
Author : Madeleine Dobie
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300259409
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Yale French Studies, Number 140 written by Madeleine Dobie and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A diverse, interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring what makes Maryse Condé a writer for our times In 2018, the New Academy selected Guadeloupean writer, scholar, and teacher of literature Maryse Condé as the recipient of the 2018 Alternative Nobel Prize in Literature. This volume of Yale French Studies examines Condé's work and legacy, exploring why a diverse group of journalists, critics, and lay readers selected her as the writer most deserving of the prize. Varied in their themes, forms, and disciplinary groundings, the essays consider how Condé's novels, plays, essays, and memoirs have engaged with many of the urgent social, economic, and political issues of the late-twentieth and twenty-first centuries, often anticipating and catalyzing public debates. Written by scholars from Africa, the Antilles, South America, France, and the United States, the essays consider Condé's unique voice and the ways in which her writing speaks to readers all over the world, making her "a writer for our times."
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9401204241
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Caribbean Interfaces written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary research on Caribbean literature displays a rich variety of themes, literary and cultural categories, forms, genres, languages. Still, the concept of a unified Caribbean literary space remains questionable, depending upon whether one strictly limits it to the islands, enlarges it to adopt a Latin-American perspective, or even grants it inter-American dimensions. This book is an ambitious tentative to bring together specialists from various disciplines: neither just French, Spanish, English, or Comparative studies specialists, nor strictly “Caribbean literature” specialists, but also theoreticians, cultural studies scholars, historians of cultural translation and of intercultural transfers. The contributions tackle two major questions: what is the best possible division of labor between comparative literature, cultural anthropology and models of national or regional literary histories? how should one make use of “transversal” concepts such as: memory, space, linguistic awareness, intercultural translation, orature or hybridization? Case studies and concrete projects for integrated research alternate with theoretical and historiographical contributions. This volume is of utmost interest to students of Caribbean studies in general, but also to anyone interested in Caribbean literatures in Spanish, English and French, as well as to students in comparative literature, cultural studies and transfer research.
Author : Dawn Fulton
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813927152
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (271 download)
Download or read book Signs of Dissent written by Dawn Fulton and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maryse Condé is a Guadeloupean writer and critic whose work has challenged the categories of race, language, gender, and geography that inform contemporary literary and critical debates. In Signs of Dissent, the first full-length study in English on Condé, Dawn Fulton situates this award-winning author's work in the context of current theories of cultural identity in order to foreground Condé's unique contributions to these discussions. Staging a dialogue between Condé's novels and the field of postcolonial studies, Fulton argues that Condé enacts a strategy of "critical incorporations" in her fiction, imitating and transforming many of the prevailing narratives of postcolonial theory so as to explore their theoretical and conceptual limits. By rejecting the facile classification of her work as "Caribbean," "African," or "feminist," Condé has gained a reputation as an iconoclast. But Fulton proposes that behind this public image of provocation lies an incisive reflection on the burdens of representation imposed on the non-Western writer, and that Condé's novels expose the ways in which postcolonial criticism can be complicit in constructing such burdens even as it questions them. Signs of Dissent offers one of the most comprehensive assessments of Condé's literary production to date, illuminating its exceptional role in shaping a dialogue between francophone studies and the English-dominated field of postcolonialism.
Author : Michael Sollars
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438108362
Total Pages : 957 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)
Download or read book The Facts on File Companion to the World Novel written by Michael Sollars and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 957 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Felisa Vergara Reynolds
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496218426
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)
Download or read book The Author as Cannibal written by Felisa Vergara Reynolds and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After French colonial rule ended, Francophone authors began rewriting narratives from the colonial literary canon. Felisa Vergara Reynolds presents these textual revisions as figurative acts of cannibalism and examines how these literary cannibalizations critique colonialism and its legacy in each author’s homeland.
