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Author : Oscar Ronald Dathorne
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452912289
Total Pages : 541 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)
Download or read book The Black Mind written by Oscar Ronald Dathorne and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : O. R. Dathorne
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816607699
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (166 download)
Download or read book African Literature in the Twentieth Century written by O. R. Dathorne and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores intellectual currents in African prose and verse from sung or chanted lines to modern writings
Author : Simon Gikandi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134582234
Total Pages : 886 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of African Literature written by Simon Gikandi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most comprehensive reference work on African literature to date, this book contains over 600 entries that cover criticism and theory, its development as a field of scholarship, and studies of established and lesser-known writers.
Author : Vicki Briault Manus
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739166956
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Emerging Traditions written by Vicki Briault Manus and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The monograph explores the linguistic impact of the colonial and postcolonial situations in South Africa on language policy, on literary production and especially on the stylistics of fiction by indigenous South Africans writing in English. A secondary concern is to investigate the present place of English in the multilingual spectrum of South African languages and to see how this worldly English relates to Global English, in the South African context. The introduction presents a socio-linguistic overview of South Africa from pre-historic times until the present, including language planning policies during and after the colonial era and a cursory review of how the difficulties encountered in implementing the Language Plan, provided for by the new South African constitution, impinge on the development of black South African English. Six chapters track the course of English in South Africa since the arrival of the British in 1795, considered from the point of view of the indigenous African population. The study focuses on ways in which indigenous authors 'indigenize' their writing, innovating and subverting stylistic conventions, including those of African orature, in order to bend language and genre towards their own culture and objectives. Each chapter corresponds to a briefly outlined historical period that is largely reflected in linguistic and literary developments. A small number of significant works for each period are discussed, one of which is selected for a case-study at the end of each chapter, where it is subjected to detailed stylistic analysis and appraised for the degree of indigenization or other linguistic or socio-historic influences on style. The methodology adopted is a linguistic approach to stylistics, focusing on indigenization of English, inspired by the work of Chantal Zabus in her book, The African Palimpsest: Indigenization of Language in the West African Europhone Novel (2007, (1991)). The conclusion reappraises the original hypothesis - that the specific characteristics of South African literary production, including styles of writing, can be related to the political, social and economic context - in the light of many fresh insights; and discusses the place occupied by English in the cultural struggle of the formerly colonized peoples of South Africa.
Author : Xolela Mangcu
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1868148203
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (681 download)
Download or read book Becoming Worthy Ancestors written by Xolela Mangcu and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why does it matter that nations should care for their archives, and that they should develop a sense of shared identity? And why should these processes take place in the public domain? How can nations possibly speak about a shared sense of identity in pluralistic societies where individuals and groups have multiple identities? And how can such conversations be given relevance in public discussions of reconciliation and development in South Africa? These are the issues that the Public Conversations lecture series – an initiative of the Constitution of Public Intellectual Life Project at Wits University – proceeded from in 2006. Five years later, cross currents in contemporary South Africa have made the resumption of a public debate to clarify the meanings of identity and citizenship even more imperative, and an understanding of ‘archive’ even more urgent. The 2006 lectures were subsequently collected, resulting in this volume which takes its title from Weber’s point, elaborated on in the chapter by Benedict Anderson, that the future asks us to be worthy ancestors to the yet unborn. The book, as did the lecture series, aims to reach a broad and informed reading public because the topic is still of pressing interest in contemporary public discourse. In a changed (and, some might say, degraded) environment of public dialogue, the editor hopes to inspire a re-thinking of the very essence of what it means to be a citizen of South Africa. Becoming Worthy Ancestors aims to make accessible the theoretically informed, sometimes highly academic work of its various contributors. With chapters from high profile international and local contributors, it will be of interest to South African and international audiences. Editing for publication has further enhanced the accessibility of each speaker’s thinking without forfeiting any of its complexity, and the addition of an introductory chapter by the editor contributes to the coherence of the volume. While the target audience is the broad public, the book is based on a core of academic thinking and research.
Author : United States. Department of State
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book African Series written by United States. Department of State and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Derek Nurse
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135796831
Total Pages : 727 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)
Download or read book The Bantu Languages written by Derek Nurse and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-03-21 with total page 727 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gerard Philippson is Professor of Bantu Languages at the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales and is a member of the Dyamique de Langage research team of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Lyon II University. He has mainly worked on comparative Bantu tonology. Other areas of interest include Afro-Asiatic, general phonology, linguistic classification and its correlation with population genetics.
Author : Okoro, Dike
Publisher : Cissus World Press
ISBN 13 : 0967951143
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (679 download)
Download or read book New Perspectives on Mazisi Kunene written by Okoro, Dike and published by Cissus World Press. This book was released on 2016-07-25 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Perspectives on Mazisi Kunene shares with readers an interview inspired by correspondence and prolonged conversations on the telephone. The focus of this interview, Mazisi Kunene, is arguably one of Africa's greatest poets. Kunene's contributions to African literature as both scholar and artist remains significant, given his commitment to writing in his indigenous Zulu language and translating his corpus into English. Ntongela Masilela, a close friend to Kunene and scholar who has written extensively on Kunene oeuvre, shares views that center primarily on Kunene's importance in African literature, and his role and place in South African literary and cultural revolution.
Author : Isidore Diala
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527528243
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Download or read book Obumselu on African Literature written by Isidore Diala and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-13 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compendium brings together, in one volume for the first time, Obumselu’s highly celebrated work on African literature. With the dialectic of cultures as the presiding preoccupation of his work, and appraising the place of African literature in the universal scheme of cultural interchange his critical speciality, Obumselu espoused a scholarship with a necessarily indispensable comparative dimension, as the articles anthologised in this volume as African literature reveal. The expertise with which he explores the oeuvres of many Western writers because of the light they shed on the creative endeavours of African writers is offset only by the rigour with which he explores the transformative impact of indigenous African literature on the craft of many distinguished African writers. Obumselu’s discovery of a tradition of the African novel almost entirely rooted in the poetics of African folklore, which began with Mofolo and Plaatje and blossomed in Camara Laye and Ben Okri, is a highlight of his incisive scholarship and reverberates through many of the works here. The originality of his insights, his analytic rigour, the catholicity of his tastes and competences, and the power and grace of his expression make this volume compelling.
Author : United States. Department of State. Office of Public Services
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Newly Independent Nations written by United States. Department of State. Office of Public Services and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rajend Mesthrie
Publisher : New Africa Books
ISBN 13 : 9780864862808
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (628 download)
Download or read book Language and Social History written by Rajend Mesthrie and published by New Africa Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Attwell
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821417118
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Rewriting Modernity written by David Attwell and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rewriting Modernity: Studies in Black South African Literary History connects the black literary archive in South Africa to international postcolonial studies via the theory of transculturation, a position adapted from the Cuban anthropologist Fernando Ortiz.
Author : National Conference on UNESCO, 8th, Boston 1961
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Africa and the United States written by National Conference on UNESCO, 8th, Boston 1961 and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Etzel Pearcy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Africa: Names and Concepts written by George Etzel Pearcy and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wandile F. Kuse
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 666 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Form and Themes of Mqhayi's Poetry and Prose written by Wandile F. Kuse and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9401206066
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Migratory Settings written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-06-29 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Migratory Settings proposes a shift in perspective from migration as movement from place to place to migration as installing movement within place. Migration not only takes place between places, but also has its effects on place, in place. In brief, we suggest a view on migration in which place is neither reified nor transcended, but ‘thickened’ as it becomes the setting of the variegated memories, imaginations, dreams, fantasies, nightmares, anticipations, and idealizations of both migrants and native inhabitants that experiences of migration bring into contact with each other. Migration makes place overdetermined, turning it into the mise-en-scène of different histories. Hence, movement does not lead to placelessness, but to the intensification and overdetermination of place, its ‘heterotopicality.’ At the same time, place does not unequivocally authenticate or validate knowledge, but, shot-through with the transnational and the transcultural, exceeds it ceaselessly. Our contributions take us to the migratory settings of a fictional exhibition; a staged political wedding; a walking tour in a museum; African appropriations of Shakespeare and Sophocles; Gollwitz, Germany; Calais, France; the body after a heart transplant; refugees’ family portraiture; a garden in Vermont; the womb. With contributions by Mieke Bal, Maaike Bleeker, Paulina Aroch, Astrid van Weyenberg, Sarah de Mul, Annette Seidel Arpaci, Sudeep Dasgupta, Wim Staat, Maria Boletsi, Griselda Pollock, Alex Rotas, and Murat Aydemir.
Author : Pia Lane
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317298861
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)
Download or read book Standardizing Minority Languages written by Pia Lane and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-22 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781138125124, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. This volume addresses a crucial, yet largely unaddressed dimension of minority language standardization, namely how social actors engage with, support, negotiate, resist and even reject such processes. The focus is on social actors rather than language as a means for analysing the complexity and tensions inherent in contemporary standardization processes. By considering the perspectives and actions of people who participate in or are affected by minority language politics, the contributors aim to provide a comparative and nuanced analysis of the complexity and tensions inherent in minority language standardisation processes. Echoing Fasold (1984), this involves a shift in focus from a sociolinguistics of language to a sociolinguistics of people. The book addresses tensions that are born of the renewed or continued need to standardize ‘language’ in the early 21st century across the world. It proposes to go beyond the traditional macro/micro dichotomy by foregrounding the role of actors as they position themselves as users of standard forms of language, oral or written, across sociolinguistic scales. Language policy processes can be seen as practices and ideologies in action and this volume therefore investigates how social actors in a wide range of geographical settings embrace, contribute to, resist and also reject (aspects of) minority language standardization.
