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Meditations on African Literature

Author : Dubem Okafor
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Meditations on African Literature written by Dubem Okafor and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2001-02-28 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While African literature is presently enjoying much attention from the scholarly community, its heritage and identity are becoming less clearly defined. While Africa has a rich oral tradition, African writers find themselves writing in the languages of their colonial oppressors. So too, many of the best African writers now live outside Africa, particularly in North America. Much of the criticism of African literature is written by American professors, African writers sometimes teach their literature at American universities, and American publishers issue African literary works. At the same time, the political climate of many African countries has been detrimental to literacy and writing. This book explores many of the issues currently facing African literature. Each chapter is written by an expert contributor, to provide the volume with a broad coverage of numerous topics related to the present state of African literature. The opening chapters examine issues of language and postcoloniality in African literary works. Later chapters discuss such concerns as the formation of an African literary canon, representations of history and ideology in African writing, the role of women in African literature, and African ritual theater. Through its various chapters, the volume makes clear that African writers continue to engage pressing social and political issues, and that they are intellectuals rather than entertainers.

African Zen

Author : Eleanor Hooks
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781479313846
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (138 download)

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Download or read book African Zen written by Eleanor Hooks and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2012-09-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African Zen is an exposition of the link between spiritual experience and the wisdom of African proverbs. The proverbs are a springboard for the 108 meditations that describe the author's belief in our relationship with Universal Spirit, and the joy in realizing the power of the present moment.

The Cardinals

Author : Bessie Head
Publisher : Heinemann
ISBN 13 : 9780435909673
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book The Cardinals written by Bessie Head and published by Heinemann. This book was released on 1995 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cardinals--thought to be the first long piece of fiction Head produced and the only one she ever set in South Africa--is an exciting literary event.

The Black Poets

Author : Dudley Randall
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0553275631
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book The Black Poets written by Dudley Randall and published by Bantam. This book was released on 1985-04-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The claim of The Black Poets to being... an anthology is that it presents the full range of Black-American poetry, from the slave songs to the present day. It is important that folk poetry be included because it is the root and inspiration of later, literary poetry. Not only does this book present the full range of Black poetry, but it presents most poets in depths, and in some cases presents aspects of a poet neglected or overlooked before. Gwendolyn Brooks is represented not only by poems on racial and domestic themes, but is revealed as a writer of superb love lyrics. Tuming away from White models and retuming to their roots has freed Black poets to create a new poetry. This book records their progress."--from the Introduction by Dudley Randall

Reflections of Loko Miwa

Author : Lilas Desquiron
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813917535
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Reflections of Loko Miwa written by Lilas Desquiron and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel on Haiti during the regime of Francois Duvalier. The protagonists are a group of women in the countryside who bear the brunt of reprisals against revolutionaries by the Tontons Macoutes.

African Literature as Political Philosophy

Author : Mary Stella Chika Okolo
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1848136048
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book African Literature as Political Philosophy written by Mary Stella Chika Okolo and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The politics of development in Africa have always been central concerns of the continent's literature. Yet ideas about the best way to achieve this development, and even what development itself should look like, have been hotly contested. African Literature as Political Philosophy looks in particular at Achebe's Anthills of the Savannah and Petals of Blood by Ngugi wa Thiong'o, but situates these within the broader context of developments in African literature over the past half-century, discussing writers from Ayi Kwei Armah to Wole Soyinka. M.S.C. Okolo provides a thorough analysis of the authors' differing approaches and how these emerge from the literature. She shows the roots of Achebe's reformism and Ngugi's insistence on revolution and how these positions take shape in their work. Okolo argues that these authors have been profoundly affected by the political situation of Africa, but have also helped to create a new African political philosophy.

Radical Humanism and Generous Tolerance

Author : Celucien L. Joseph
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0761868593
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book Radical Humanism and Generous Tolerance written by Celucien L. Joseph and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-11-16 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book articulates the religious ideas and vision of Wole Soyinka in his non-fiction writings, analyzes Soyinka's response to religious violence, terror, and the fear of religious imperialism, and suggests that theoretical notions of radical humanism and generous tolerance best summarize Soyinka's religious ideals and religious piety.

Ngũgĩ

Author : Simon Gikandi
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1847012140
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Ngũgĩ written by Simon Gikandi and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2018 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays reflects on the life and work of Ngugi wa Thiong'o, who celebrated his 80th birthday in 2018. Drawing from a wide range of contributors, including writers, critics, publishers and activists, the volume traces the emergence of Ngugi as a novelist in the early 1960s, his contribution to the African culture of letters at its moment of inception, and his global artistic life in the twenty-first century. Here we have both personal andcritical reflections on the different phases of the writer's life: there are poems from friends and admirers, commentaries from his co-workers in public theatre in Kenya in the 1970s and 1980s, and from his political associates in the fight for democracy, and contributions on his role as an intellectual of decolonization, as well as his experiences in the global art world. Included also are essays on Ngugi's role outside the academy, in the world of education, community theatre, and activism. In addition to tributes from other authors who were influenced by Ngugi, the collection contains hitherto unknown materials that are appearing in English for the first time. Both a celebration of the writer, and a rethinking of his legacy, this book brings together three generations of Ngugi readers. We have memories and recollections from the people he worked with closely in the 1960s, the students that he taught atthe University of Nairobi in the 1970s, his political associates during his exile in the 1980s, and the people who worked with him as he embarked on a new life and career in the United States in the 1990s. First-hand accounts reveal how Ngugi's life and work have intersected, and the multiple forces that have converged to make him one of the greatest writers to come out of Africa in the twentieth century. Simon Gikandi is Robert Schirmer Professor of English, Princeton University. He is President of the MLA and was editor of its journal PMLA, from 2011-2016. Ndirangu Wachanga is Professor of Media Studies and Information Science at the University of Wisconsin. He is also the authorized documentary biographer of Professors Ali A. Mazrui, Ngugi wa Thiong'o and Micere Mugo.

Reflections on Identity in Four African Cities

Author : S. B. Bekker
Publisher : African Minds
ISBN 13 : 1920051406
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Reflections on Identity in Four African Cities written by S. B. Bekker and published by African Minds. This book was released on 2006 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identity has become the watchword of our times. In sub-Saharan Africa, this certainly appears to be true and for particular reasons. Africa is urbanising rapidly, cross-border migration streams are swelling and globalising influences sweep across the continent. Africa is also facing up to the challenge of nurturing emergent democracies in which citizens often feel torn between older traditional and newer national loyalties. Accordingly, collective identities are deeply coloured by recent urban as well as international experience and are squarely located within identity politics where reconciliation is required between state nation-building strategies and sub-national affiliations. They are also fundamentally shaped by the growing inequality and the poverty found on this continent. These themes are explored by an international set of scholars in two South African and two Francophone cities. The relative importance to urban residents of race, class and ethnicity but also of work, space and language are compared in these cities. This volume also includes a chapter investigating the emergence of a continental African identity. A recent report of the Office of the South African President claims that a strong national identity is emerging among its citizens, and that race and ethnicity are waning whilst a class identity is in the ascendance. The evidence and analyses within this volume serve to gauge the extent to which such claims ring true, in what everyone knows is a much more complex and shifting terrain of shared meanings than can ever be captured by such generalisations.

African Literature in the Digital Age

Author : Shola Adenekan
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1847012388
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book African Literature in the Digital Age written by Shola Adenekan and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2021 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book-length study on the relationship between African literature and new media.

Letters to Martin

Author : Randal Maurice Jelks
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 164160557X
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (416 download)

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Download or read book Letters to Martin written by Randal Maurice Jelks and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "You'll find hope in these pages. " —Jonathan Eig, author of Ali: A Life Letters to Martin contains twelve meditations on contemporary political struggles for our oxygen-deprived society. Evoking Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail," these meditations, written in the form of letters to King, speak specifically to the many public issues we presently confront in the United States—economic inequality, freedom of assembly, police brutality, ongoing social class conflicts, and geopolitics. Award-winning author Randal Maurice Jelks invites readers to reflect on US history by centering on questions of democracy that we must grapple with as a society. Hearkening to the era when James Baldwin, Dorothy Day, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Richard Wright used their writing to address the internal and external conflicts that the United States faced, this book is a contemporary revival of the literary tradition of meditative social analysis. These meditations on democracy provide spiritual oxygen to help readers endure the struggles of rebranding, rebuilding, and reforming our democratic institutions so that we can all breathe.

Free Your Mind

Author : Cortez R. Rainey
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781492769200
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (692 download)

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Download or read book Free Your Mind written by Cortez R. Rainey and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This guidebook explains how to use meditation principles and techniques at home, either alone or with family and friends, to free your mind from thoughts that keep you shackled and bound"--Back cover.

Meditations of a Non-White

Author : Kolski Horwitz
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 1990922619
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Meditations of a Non-White written by Kolski Horwitz and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2012-11-22 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short stories from a master of the form, this collection scrapes away superficial assumptions and brings to life a multitude of characters whose concerns have dominated post-1994 South Africa but are in many respects timeless; in particular, they probe the limitations of middle class norms and blinkered identities and grapple with the diverse experiences of the many millions living on the margins of privileged ghettoes. Mixing satire with brutal realism, Kolski Horwitz dissects South African society with a keen and insightful eye.

African Literature

Author : Jonathan P. Smithe
Publisher : Nova Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781590332900
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (329 download)

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Download or read book African Literature written by Jonathan P. Smithe and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African literature, like the continent itself is enormous and diverse. East Africa's literature is different from West Africa's which is quite different from South Africa's which has different influences on it than North Africa's. Africa's literature is based on a widespread heritage of oral literature, some of which has now been recorded. Arabic influence can be detected as well as European, especially French and English. Legends, myths, proverbs, riddles and folktales form the mother load of the oral literature. This book presents an overview of African literature as well as a comprehensive bibliography, primarily of English language sources. Accessed by subject, author and title indexes.

In the Name of the Mother

Author : Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1847010849
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book In the Name of the Mother written by Ngugi wa Thiong'o and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2013 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alongside the impact of his early novels and plays, and his more recent memoirs, these essays give new insights into Ngugi's and other writers' responses to colonialism - there is new material here for students of literature, politics and culture.

Meditations of a Non-White White

Author : Allan Kolski Horwitz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781990922145
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (221 download)

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Download or read book Meditations of a Non-White White written by Allan Kolski Horwitz and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hort stories from a master of the form, this collection scrapes away superficial assumptions and brings to life a multitude of characters whose concerns have dominated post-1994 South Africa but are in many respects timeless; in particular, they probe the limitations of middle class norms and blinkered identities and grapple with the diverse experiences of the many millions living on the margins of privileged ghettoes. Mixing satire with brutal realism, Kolski Horwitz dissects South African society with a keen and insightful eye. -- Publisher's description.

Meditations of a Non-white White

Author : Allan Kolski Horwitz
Publisher : Botsotso Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780987017864
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Meditations of a Non-white White written by Allan Kolski Horwitz and published by Botsotso Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short stories from a master of the form, this collection scrapes away superficial assumptions and brings to life a multitude of characters whose concerns have dominated post-1994 South Africa but are in many respects timeless; in particular, they probe the limitations of middle class norms and blinkered identities and grapple with the diverse experiences of the many millions living on the margins of privileged ghettoes. Mixing satire with brutal realism, Kolski Horwitz dissects South African society with a keen and insightful eye.