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Book Synopsis African Literature by : Jonathan P. Smithe
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.
Book Synopsis Palavers of African Literature by : Barbara Harlow
Download or read book Palavers of African Literature written by Barbara Harlow and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Palavers of African Literature: Essays in Honor of Bernth Lindfors by : Toyin Falola
Download or read book Palavers of African Literature: Essays in Honor of Bernth Lindfors written by Toyin Falola and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Palavers of African Literature by : Toyin Falola
Download or read book Palavers of African Literature written by Toyin Falola and published by Africa Research and Publications. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bernth Lindfors has contributed importantly, at times single-handedly - to placing Africa and its literature on the curricular map of the Euro-American academy... The analyses and reminiscences collected in this volume...testify to the lasting and continuing fruits of Ben's work... This large assembly of essays, as wide in range as it is rich in diversity, is a fitting tribute to the long, unwavering service Bernth Lindfors has given to African literature' - Chinua Achebe'
Book Synopsis Contexts of African Literature by : Albert S. Gérard
Download or read book Contexts of African Literature written by Albert S. Gérard and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1990 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Long Drums and Canons by : Bernth Lindfors
Download or read book Long Drums and Canons written by Bernth Lindfors and published by Africa World Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays addresses questions pertinent to the teaching of the relatively new discipline surrounding the teaching and researching of African literature. A valuable resource for both researchers, lecturers and students, it examines current practices, considers which material and writers should be studied, and considers how academic programmes can be structured.
Author : Publisher : ISBN 13 :1853597740 Total Pages :236 pages Book Rating :4.8/5 (535 download)
Download or read book written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Vernacular Palaver by : Moradewun Adejunmobi
Download or read book Vernacular Palaver written by Moradewun Adejunmobi and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adejunmobi highlights the continuing appeal of local identities for participants in social networks where communication occurs in languages that are not mother tongues. He shows how in West Africa notions of localness & locality remain important despite the growing prominence of global languages.
Book Synopsis Oral Literature in Africa by : Ruth Finnegan
Download or read book Oral Literature in Africa written by Ruth Finnegan and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ruth Finnegan's Oral Literature in Africa was first published in 1970, and since then has been widely praised as one of the most important books in its field. Based on years of fieldwork, the study traces the history of storytelling across the continent of Africa. This revised edition makes Finnegan's ground-breaking research available to the next generation of scholars. It includes a new introduction, additional images and an updated bibliography, as well as its original chapters on poetry, prose, "drum language" and drama, and an overview of the social, linguistic and historical background of oral literature in Africa. This book is the first volume in the World Oral Literature Series, an ongoing collaboration between OBP and World Oral Literature Project. A free online archive of recordings and photographs that Finnegan made during her fieldwork in the late 1960s is hosted by the World Oral Literature Project (http: //www.oralliterature.org/collections/rfinnegan001.html) and can also be accessed from publisher's website.
Book Synopsis New Directions in African Literature by : Ernest Emenyo̲nu
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
Book Synopsis A New Generation of African Writers by : Brenda Cooper
Download or read book A New Generation of African Writers written by Brenda Cooper and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2013 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brenda Cooper examines the work of the new generation of African writers who have placed migration as central to their writing
Book Synopsis Portrayals and Gender Palaver in Francophone African Writings by : Sanusi, Ramonu
Download or read book Portrayals and Gender Palaver in Francophone African Writings written by Sanusi, Ramonu and published by Graduke Publishers. This book was released on 2018-09-24 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late 1960s witnessed the emergence of African women writers on the African literary space earlier dominated by African men. African women’s writings largely focus on deconstructing the patriarchal order, religious prescription and cultural mores in order to tear women’s veil of invisibility. The topics covered in the book are comprehensive and include among others: The Francophone African Novel; Religious and cultural constructs of African women; The poetic constructs of African women; Fictional constructs of subaltern African women; Marriage and the subordination of women; Physical and sexual exploitation of women; Women and Polygamy in men’s fiction; African women writers and the utilitarian function of their art; Female protagonists in fiction by African women; Discourse on the oppressors and the oppressed; African feminism/Western Feminism.
Book Synopsis Milestones in African Literature by : Toyin Falola
Download or read book Milestones in African Literature written by Toyin Falola and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-07-31 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Milestones in African Literature offers an accessible guide to ten key moments in African literature. It traces literature in Africa through forms and genres, as well as social and political changes. Toyin Falola embraces the richness of African literature, and considers the oral tradition, pre-colonial literature, apartheid, print media and digital literature, postcolonialism, and migration literature. He explores the realities of African people by drawing from and highlighting peoples’ convictions, spirituality, and pasts. The book reveals African literature’s capacity to convey cultural, social, and political messages through storytelling, while depicting the social structures and cultural norms that shape these experiences through the examination of perspectives and literary works of African authors. Milestones in African Literature is the ideal resource for undergraduate and graduate students interested in African literatures. It will also be invaluable for teachers and researchers aiming to strengthen their knowledge.
Author :Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi Publisher :University of Chicago Press ISBN 13 :9780226620855 Total Pages :372 pages Book Rating :4.6/5 (28 download)
Book Synopsis Africa Wo/Man Palava by : Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi
Download or read book Africa Wo/Man Palava written by Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1996-04-15 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ogunyemi uses the novels to trace a Nigerian women's literary tradition that reflects an ideology centered on children and community. Of prime importance is the paradoxical Mammywata figure, the independent, childless mother, who serves as a basis for the postcolonial woman in the novels and in society at large. Ogunyemi tracks this figure through many permutations, from matriarch to writer, her multiple personalities reflecting competing loyalties. This sustained critical study counters prevailing "masculinist" theories of black literature in a powerful narrative of the Nigerian world.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to the African Novel by : F. Abiola Irele
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the African Novel written by F. Abiola Irele and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-23 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africa's strong tradition of storytelling has long been an expression of an oral narrative culture. African writers such as Amos Tutuola, Naguib Mahfouz, Wole Soyinka and J. M. Coetzee have adapted these older forms to develop and enhance the genre of the novel, in a shift from the oral mode to print. Comprehensive in scope, these new essays cover the fiction in the European languages from North Africa and Africa south of the Sahara, as well as in Arabic. They highlight the themes and styles of the African novel through an examination of the works that have either attained canonical status - an entire chapter is devoted to the work of Chinua Achebe - or can be expected to do so. Including a guide to further reading and a chronology, this is the ideal starting-point for students of African and world literatures.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to the African Novel by : Abiola Irele
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the African Novel written by Abiola Irele and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-23 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overview of the key novels and novelists of the continent, covering multiple cultures and languages.
Book Synopsis Meet Me at the Palaver by : Tapiwa N Mucherera
Download or read book Meet Me at the Palaver written by Tapiwa N Mucherera and published by Lutterworth Press. This book was released on 2010-04-29 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet me at the Palaver shows the damaging impact of colonial Christianity on indigenous African communities. The book opens with stories of destructive change brought to indigenous contexts, where in the culture, values, religion, and humanity of African peoples were often marginalized. Mucherera argues for a holistic narrative pastoral counseling approach to assess and service the three basic areas of human needs in indigenous African communities: body, mind, and spirit. The book presents a hopeful strategy of recovering stories, cultural traditions, and values that have been subjugated in the past as effective means for dealing with contemporary life in indigenous contexts such as Zimbabwe.
