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Intertextuality in Contemporary African Literature

Author : Ode Ogede
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739164465
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Intertextuality in Contemporary African Literature written by Ode Ogede and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2011-09-16 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intellectual exchange among African creative writers is the subject of this highly innovative and wide-ranging look at several forms of intertextuality on the continent. Focusing on the issue of the availability of old canonical texts of African literature as a creative resource, this study throws light on how African authors adapt, reinterpret, and redeploy existing texts in the formulation of new ones. Contemporary African writers are taking advantage of and extending the resources available in the existing native literary tradition. But the field of inter-ethnic/trans-national African literary inter-textual studies is a novel one in itself as the theme of African writers' debt to Euro-American authors has been the critical commonplace in African literature. Detailing the echoes and reverberations the voices of the past have generated, and the distinctive uses to which the writers are putting one another's works, the book demonstrates that the influence of local stock is significant: it is pervasive andwidespread, and manifests itself in ways both random and systematic, but it is a ubiquitous presence in the African literary imagination.

Contemporary African Fiction

Author : Derek Wright
Publisher : Bayreuth African Studies
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary African Fiction written by Derek Wright and published by Bayreuth African Studies. This book was released on 1997 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

African Fiction and Joseph Conrad

Author : Byron Caminero-Santangelo
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791462614
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (626 download)

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Download or read book African Fiction and Joseph Conrad written by Byron Caminero-Santangelo and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2004-12-30 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interrogates the "writing back to the center" approach to intertextuality and explores alternatives to it.

African Fiction and Joseph Conrad

Author : Byron Caminero-Santangelo
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791462621
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (626 download)

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Download or read book African Fiction and Joseph Conrad written by Byron Caminero-Santangelo and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2004-12-30 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interrogates the "writing back to the center" approach to intertextuality and explores alternatives to it.

African Women's Literature, Orature, and Intertextuality

Author : Susan Arndt
Publisher : Humboldt University of Berlin
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Book Synopsis African Women's Literature, Orature, and Intertextuality by : Susan Arndt

Download or read book African Women's Literature, Orature, and Intertextuality written by Susan Arndt and published by Humboldt University of Berlin. This book was released on 1998 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cultural Transfer Reconsidered

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900444369X
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Cultural Transfer Reconsidered written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-06-17 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the cultural dynamics of translation and transfer, Cultural Transfer Reconsideredproposes new insights into both epistemological and analytical questions. With its focus on the North, the book opens perspectives mainly implying textual, intertextual and artistic practices and postcolonial interrelatedness.

One Foreigner's Ordeal

Author : Tavuya Jinga
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1468505114
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (685 download)

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Download or read book One Foreigner's Ordeal written by Tavuya Jinga and published by Author House. This book was released on 2012-05-22 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One Foreigners Ordeal is a story of how a Zimbabwean civil servant; a teacher, is caught up in Zimbabwes economic implosion. It chronicles his flight into South Africa and depicts the new challenges that beset him in the new environment. Among these is the search for documentation enabling him to stay in the country legally, xenophobia and the all elusive search for employment. The book is alive. The characters are so real one can feel them and almost touch them. Once I started reading it, I could not put it down. - Tsitsi Dzinoreva Lecturer in African Languages and Literature Great Zimbabwe University. Written with an eye for detail and a sense of humour any reader will find impeccable and refreshinga must read for serious lovers of literature. - Mika Nyoni Lecturer English Great Zimbabwe University.

Reading Contemporary African Literature

Author : Reuben Makayiko Chirambo
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9401209375
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Reading Contemporary African Literature written by Reuben Makayiko Chirambo and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2013 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 African literature that should be of interest to academics, researchers, and students of African literature, culture, and history amongst other subjects. Some of the essays examine authors that have received little or no attention to date in books on recent African literature. These essays provide new insights and scholarship that should broaden and deepen our understanding and appreciation of African literature.

Across the Lines

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004484922
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Across the Lines written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-05-16 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third volume of ASNEL Papers covers a wide range of theoretical and thematic approaches to the subject of intertextuality. Intertextual relations between oral and written versions of literature, text and performance, as well as problems emerging from media transitions, regionally instructed forms of intertextuality, and the works of individual authors are equally dealt with. Intertextuality as both a creative and a critical practice frequently exposes the essential arbitrariness of literary and cultural manifestations that have become canonized. The transformation and transfer of meanings which accompanies any crossing between texts rests not least on the nature of the artistic corpus embodied in the general framework of historically and socially determined cultural traditions. Traditions, however, result from selective forms of perception; they are as much inventions as they are based on exclusion. Intertextuality leads to a constant reinforcement of tradition, while, at the same time, intertextual relations between the new literatures and other English-language literatures are all too obvious. Despite the inevitable impact of tradition, the new literatures tend to employ a dynamic reading of culture which fosters social process and transition, thus promoting transcultural rather than intercultural modes of communication. Writing and reading across borders becomes a dialogue which reveals both differences and similarities. More than a decolonizing form of deconstruction, intertextuality is a strategy for communicating meaning across cultural boundaries.

Oral Tradition in African Literature

Author : Ce, Chin
Publisher : Handel Books
ISBN 13 : 9783603590
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book Oral Tradition in African Literature written by Ce, Chin and published by Handel Books. This book was released on 2015-09-04 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of oral tradition in African literature is borne from the awareness that African verbal arts still survive in works of discerning writers and in the conscious exploration of its tropes, perspectives, philosophy and consciousness, its complementary realism, and ontology, for the delineation of authentic African response to memory, history and other possible comparisons with modern existence such as witnessed in recent developments of the African novel. In this series we have strived to adopt innovative and multilayered perspectives on orality or indigeneity and its manifestations on contemporary African and new literatures. These studies use multi-faceted theories of orality which discuss and deconstruct notions of history, truth-claims and identity-making, not excluding gender and genealogy (cultural and biological) studies in African contexts.

Contemporary African Literature and the Politics of Gender

Author : Florence Stratton
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415097703
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (977 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary African Literature and the Politics of Gender written by Florence Stratton and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1994 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The influence of colonialism and race on the development of African literature has been the subject of a number of studies. The effect of patriarchy and gender, however, and indeed the contributions of African women, have up until now been largely ignored by the critics. "Contemporary African Literature and the Politics of Gender" is the first extensive account of African literature from a feminist perspective. In this first radical and exciting work Florence Stratton outlines the features of an emerging female tradition in African fiction. A chapter is dedicated to each to the works of four women writers: Grace Ogot, Flora Nwapa, Buchi Emecheta and Mariama Ba. In addition she provides challenging new readings of canonical male authors such as Chinua Achebe, Ngugi wa Thiongo'o and Wole Soyinka. "Contemporary African" "Literature and the Politics of Gender" thus provides the first truly comprehensive definition of the current literary tradition in Africa.

Books in Motion

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9401202753
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Books in Motion written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Books in Motion addresses the hybrid, interstitial field of film adaptation. The introductory essay integrates a retrospective survey of the development of adaptation studies with a forceful argument about their centrality to any history of culture—any discussion, that is, of the transformation and transmission of texts and meanings in and across cultures. The thirteen especially composed essays that follow, organised into four sections headed ‘Paradoxes of Fidelity’, ‘Authors, Auteurs, Adaptation’, ‘Contexts, Intertexts, Adaptation’ and ‘Beyond Adaptation’, variously illustrate that claim by problematising the notion of fidelity, highlighting the role played by adaptation in relation to changing concepts of authorship and auteurism, exploring the extent to which the intelligibility of film adaptations is dependent on contextual and intertextual factors, and making a claim for the need to transcend any narrowly-defined concept of adaptation in the study of adaptation. Discussion ranges from adaptations of established classics like A Tale of Two Cities, Frankenstein, Henry V, Le temps retrouvé, Mansfield Park, Pride and Prejudice, ‘The Dead’ or Wuthering Heights, to contemporary (popular) texts/films like Bridget Jones’s Diary, Fools, The Governess, High Fidelity, The Hours, The Orchid Thief/Adaptation, the work of Doris Dörrie, the first Harry Potter novel/film, or the adaptations made by Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick and Walt Disney. This book will appeal to both a specialised readership and to those accessing the dynamic field of adaptation studies for the first time.

Literary Influence and African-American Writers

Author : Tracy Mishkin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317946316
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Literary Influence and African-American Writers written by Tracy Mishkin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1996. This volume includes a collection of essays that where collected after the inspiration of finding positive interactions between African-American and Irish Writers during the Harlem Renaissance, a time when these two groups were hardly on good terms. The essays look at theories and realities of literary influence that especially affect African-American writers.

The Short Story in South Africa

Author : Rebecca Fasselt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000562409
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Short Story in South Africa written by Rebecca Fasselt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-25 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers the key critical interventions on short story writing in South Africa written in English since the year 2000. The short story genre, whilst often marginalised in national literary canons, has been central to the trajectory of literary history in South Africa. In recent years, the short story has undergone a significant renaissance, with new collections and young writers making a significant impact on the contemporary literary scene, and subgenres such as speculative fiction, erotic fiction, flash fiction and queer fiction expanding rapidly in popularity. This book examines the role of the short story genre in reflecting or championing new developments in South African writing and the ways in which traditional boundaries and definitions of the short story in South Africa have been reimagined in the present. Drawing together a range of critical interventions, including scholarly articles, interviews and personal reflective pieces, the volume traces some of the aesthetic and thematic continuities and discontinuities in the genre and sheds new light on questions of literary form. Finally, the book considers the place of the short story in twenty-first century writing and interrogates the ways in which the short story form may contribute to, or recast ideas of, the post-apartheid or post-transitional. The perfect guide to contemporary short story writing in South Africa, this book will be essential reading for researchers of African literature.

New Directions in African Literature

Author : Ernest Emenyo̲nu
Publisher : James Currey Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0852555709
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (525 download)

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Download or read book New Directions in African Literature written by Ernest Emenyo̲nu and published by James Currey Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributors to this volume ask what are the new directions of African literature? What should be the major concerns of writers, critics and teachers in the twenty-first century? What are the accomplishments and legacies? What gaps remain to be filled, and what challenges are there to be addressed by publishers and the book industry? What are the implications for pedagogy in the new technological era? ERNEST EMENYONU is Professor of the Department of Africana Studies University of Michigan-Flint. North America: Africa World Press; Nigeria: HEBN

Towards African Literary Independence

Author : Phanuel Egejuru
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Towards African Literary Independence written by Phanuel Egejuru and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1980-12-05 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

GraceLand

Author : Chris Abani
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 9781429929820
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book GraceLand written by Chris Abani and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2005-01-26 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Graceland is a dazzling debut by a singular new talent The sprawling, swampy, cacophonous city of Lagos, Nigeria, provides the backdrop to the story of Elvis, a teenage Elvis impersonator hoping to make his way out of the ghetto. Broke, beset by floods, and beatings by his alcoholic father, and with no job opportunities in sight, Elvis is tempted by a life of crime. Thus begins his odyssey into the dangerous underworld of Lagos, guided by his friend Redemption and accompanied by a restless hybrid of voices including The King of Beggars, Sunday, Innocent and Comfort. Ultimately, young Elvis, drenched in reggae and jazz, and besotted with American film heroes and images, must find his way to a GraceLand of his own. Nuanced, lyrical, and pitch perfect, Abani has created a remarkable story of a son and his father, and an examination of postcolonial Nigeria where the trappings of American culture reign supreme. "A richly detailed, poignant, and utterly fascinating look into another culture and how it is cross-pollinated by our own. It brings to mind the work of Ha Jin in its power and revelation of the new."--T. Coraghessan Boyle