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Author : Carole Boyce Davies
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780865430181
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Ngambika written by Carole Boyce Davies and published by Africa Research and Publications. This book was released on 1986 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Obioma Nnaemeka
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134774370
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)
Download or read book The Politics of (M)Othering written by Obioma Nnaemeka and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-04 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection is a study of African literature framed by the central, and multi-faceted, idea of 'mother' - motherland, mothertongue, motherwit, motherhood, mothering - looking at the paradoxical location of (m)other as both central and marginal. Whilst the volume stands as a sustained feminist analysis, it engages feminist theory itself by showing how issues in feminism are, in African literature, recast in different and complex ways.
Author : Maria Olaussen
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 904202593X
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Africa Writing Europe written by Maria Olaussen and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2009 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Africa Writing Europe" offers critical readings of the meaning and presence of Europe in a variety of African literary texts. Authors discussed include Leila Aboulela, Tatamkhulu Afrika, Alice Solomon Bowen, Ken Bugul, and Tayeb Salih.
Author : Anthonia C. Kalu
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429650914
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)
Download or read book Women, Literature and Development in Africa written by Anthonia C. Kalu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-12-09 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a powerful exploration of the role of women in the evolution of African thinking and narratives on development, from the precolonial period right through to the modern day. Whilst the book identifies women’s oppression and marginalization as significant challenges to contemporary Africa’s advancement, it also explores how new written narratives draw on traditional African knowledge systems to bring deep-rooted and sometimes radical approaches to progress. The book asserts that Africans must tell their own stories, expressed through the complex meanings and nuances of African languages and often conveyed through oral traditions and storytelling, in which women play an important role. The book’s close examination of language and meaning in the African narrative tradition advances the illumination and elevation of African storytelling as part of a viable and valid knowledge base in its own right, rather than as an extension of European paradigms and methods. Anthonia C. Kalu's new edition of this important book, fully revised throughout, will also include fresh analysis of the role of digital media, education, and religion in African narratives. At a time when the prominence and participation of African women in development and sociopolitical debates is growing, this book's exploration of their lived experiences and narrative contribution will be of interest to students of African literature, gender studies, development, history, and sociology.
Author : Obioma Nnaemeka
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415137904
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (379 download)
Download or read book Politics of Mothering written by Obioma Nnaemeka and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1997-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection is a study of African literature framed by the central, and multi-faceted, idea of 'mother' - motherland, mothertongue, motherwit, motherhood, mothering - looking at the paradoxical location of (m)other as both central and marginal. Whilst the volume stands as a sustained feminist analysis, it engages feminist theory itself by showing how issues in feminism are, in African literature, recast in different and complex ways.
Author : Mary M. Lay
Publisher : Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN 13 : 9781558612693
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (126 download)
Download or read book Encompassing Gender written by Mary M. Lay and published by Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2002 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Beijing to Seattle, women's movements within academe and in local-global communities are growing at an unprecedented rate, raising pointed questions about paradigms of Western feminism, development, global trade, and scholarship. Despite this growing visibility, the perspectives of far too many women, especially from the Global South, are still excluded from mainstream U.S. scholarship. Presented with the task of preparing students for life in this new and rapidly shrinking world, many scholars have found themselves overwhelmed by the need to cross disciplinary and geographic borders. But some faculty are leading the way -- often in defiance of academic traditions and prejudices -- to a curriculum that reflects consequences of globalization. Encompassing Gender is the long-awaited anthology of more than 40 essays by 60 scholars, many of them working in curriculum-transformation groups that cut across the humanities, the sciences, and the social sciences, all of them committed to an interdisciplinary approach to internationalizing the curriculum.
Author : Vinson H. Sutlive
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 976 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book 伊班語文初階 written by Vinson H. Sutlive and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carole Boyce-Davies
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134855230
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)
Download or read book Black Women, Writing and Identity written by Carole Boyce-Davies and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Women Writing and Identity is an exciting work by one of the most imaginative and acute writers around. The book explores a complex and fascinating set of interrelated issues, establishing the significance of such wide-ranging subjects as: * re-mapping, re-naming and cultural crossings * tourist ideologies and playful world travelling * gender, heritage and identity * African women's writing and resistance to domination * marginality, effacement and decentering * gender, language and the politics of location Carole Boyce-Davies is at the forefront of attempts to broaden the discourse surrounding the representation of and by black women and women of colour. Black Women Writing and Identity represents an extraordinary achievement in this field, taking our understanding of identity, location and representation to new levels.
Author : Florence Stratton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000158772
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Contemporary African Literature and the Politics of Gender written by Florence Stratton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-23 with total page 197 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.
Author : Dunja M. Mohr
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042023775
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Embracing the Other written by Dunja M. Mohr and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2008 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of addressing multiculturalism, transculturalism, racism, and ethnicity, the issue of xenophobia and xenophilia has been somewhat marginalized. The present collection seeks, from a variety of angles, to investigate the relations between Self and Other in the New Literatures in English. How do we register differences and what does an embrace signify for both Self and Other? The contributors deal with a variety of topics, ranging from theoretical reflections on xenophobia, its exploration in terms of intertextuality and New Zealand/Maori historiography, to analyses of migrant and border narratives, and issues of transitionality, authenticity, and racism in Canada and South Africa. Others negotiate identity and alterity in Nigerian, Malaysian, Australian, Indian, Canadian, and Caribbean texts, or reflect on diaspora and orientalism in Australian–Asian and West Indian contexts.
Author : Tuzyline Jita Allan
Publisher : Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN 13 : 9781558611696
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)
Download or read book Women's Studies Quarterly (97:3-4) written by Tuzyline Jita Allan and published by Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 1997 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authoritative, creative, and groundbreaking original literary essays about an important emerging area of study.
Author : Simon Gikandi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190610018
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)
Download or read book The Oxford History of the Novel in English written by Simon Gikandi and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-05 with total page 608 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 : Arts Council England
Publisher : Ayebia Clarke Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Broadening the Horizon written by Arts Council England and published by Ayebia Clarke Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This much-anticipated collection of essays from eight respected academics in the field brings a number of critical perspectives to focus on the signal work of a 21st century Ghanaian writer. Amma Darko is recognised in these interdisciplinary critiques as a significant writer whose storytelling talent documents the continent's globalisation pains. What is revealed in this collection is a complex and complicated writer who knows how to tell a good story, and yet is confident enough in her art to deliver an unflinching criticism of what Ghana has become.
Author : Eckhard Breitinger
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042000216
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Defining New Idioms and Alternative Forms of Expression written by Eckhard Breitinger and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1996 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first volume of ASNEL Papers gathers together a broad range of reflections on, and presentations of, the social and expressive underpinnings of post-colonial literary cultures, concentrating on aspects of orality, social structure and hybridity, the role of women in cultural production, performative and media representations (theatre, film, advertising) and their institutional forms, and the linguistic basis of literature (including questions of multilingualism, pidgins and creoles, and translation). Some of the present studies adopt a diachronic approach, as in essays devoted to European colonial influences on African literatures, the populist colonial roots of Australian drama, and the intersection of exogenous and autochthonous languages in the cultural development and identity formation of Cameroon, Tanzania and the Swahili-speaking regions of Africa. Broadly synchronic perspectives (which nevertheless take cognizance of developmental determinants) range over dominant genres -- poetry, short fiction and the novel, children's literature, theatre, film - and cover indigene literatures (Australian Aboriginal, Maori, First Nations) and regional creativity in West, East and South Africa, the Caribbean, India and the South-East Asian diaspora, and the settler colonies of Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Authors treated within broader frameworks include Chinua Achebe, 'Biyi Bandele-Thomas, Bole Butake, Shashi Deshpande, Louis Esson, Lorna Goodison, Patricia Grace, Bland Holt, Keri Hulme, Witi Ihimaera, Kazuo Ishiguro, Rita Kleinhart, Hanif Kureishi, Werewere Liking, Timothy Mo, V.S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, and Ruby Slipperjack. There are self-testimonies from the writers Geoff Goodfellow, Darrelyn Gunzburg and Don Mattera, poems by David Dabydeen, Geoff Goodfellow and Olive Senior. Of particular value to this collection are the perspectives offered by African, Caribbean and Eastern European contributors.
Author : Teresa N. Washington
Publisher : Oya's Tornado
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Our Mothers, Our Powers, Our Texts written by Teresa N. Washington and published by Oya's Tornado. This book was released on 2015-12-23 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Blazes a new trail in Africana literary criticism by providing an insight into the soul and spirit of Africana womanhood.” --Anthonia Kalu, The Ohio State University, author of Women, Literature, and Development in Africa This is the revised and expanded edition of Teresa N. Washington's groundbreaking book Our Mothers, Our Powers, Our Texts: Manifestations of Aje in Africana Literature. In Yoruba language and culture, Aje signifies both a phenomenal spiritual power and the human beings who exercise that power. Aje is the birthright of Africana women who are revered as the Gods of Society. While Africana men can have Aje, its owners and controllers are Africana women. Because it is an African female power, and due to its invisibility, ubiquity, and profundity, Aje is often maligned as witchcraft. However, as Teresa N. Washington reveals in Our Mothers, Our Powers, Our Texts, Aje is central to the Yoruba ethos, worldview, and cosmology. Not only is it essential to human creation and artistic creativity, but as a force of justice and retribution, Aje is vital to social harmony and balance. Washington analyzes forms, figures, and forces of Aje in the Yoruba world, in the Caribbean Islands, in Latin America, and in African America. Washington's research reveals that with the exile and enslavement of millions of Africans, Aje became a global force and an essential ally in organizing insurrections, soothing shattered souls, and reminding the dispossessed of their inherent divinity. From her in-depth exploration of Aje in Pan-African history and orature, Washington guides readers through rich analyses of the symbolic, methodological, and spiritual manifestations of Aje that are central to important works by Africana writers but are rarely elucidated by Western criticism. Our Mothers, Our Powers, Our Texts includes innovative readings of works by many Africana writers, including Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, Ben Okri, Wole Soyinka, Jamaica Kincaid, and Ntozake Shange. This revised and expanded edition of Our Mothers, Our Powers, Our Texts will appeal to scholars of Africana literature, African religion and philosophy, gender studies, and comparative literature. Devotees of Africana spiritual systems will find this book to be indispensable.
Author : Florence Stratton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134860625
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)
Download or read book Contemporary African Lit & Pol written by Florence Stratton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-03 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Manitou Wordworks
Publisher : Saint James Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 896 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Modern Black Writers written by Manitou Wordworks and published by Saint James Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2nd edition covers approximately 170 of the most important black novelists, poets and dramatists of the 20th century. Entries include primary bibliographies for each author and excerpted criticism providing a comprehensive overview to the critical reception of each author. Users will find updated critical analysis of most authors included in the first edition, plus entries on twenty significant new authors.
