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Crossing Borders in African Literatures

Author : Chin Ce
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9783703676
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (837 download)

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Download or read book Crossing Borders in African Literatures written by Chin Ce and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2015-09-04 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crossing Borders showcases intellectual attempts to commit the process of African interrogation of postcoloniality and postmodernity to the exploration of perspectives on black identities and interactions of contemporary cultural expressions beyond the borders of Africa and across the Atlantic. We have particularised on theoretical and critical perspectives that show how the controversial influence of westernisation of Africa has demanded remedial visions and counteractive propositions to the cycle of abuses and fragmentation of the continent. We have consequently distilled some very significant historic and informative insights on modern African and black literary traditions methodically espoused to articulate the greater unity in the diversities, fusions and hybrids that have been embedded in the external and subjective realities of our universe.

Crisscrossing Boundaries in African Literatures, 1986

Author : Kenneth W. Harrow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Crisscrossing Boundaries in African Literatures, 1986 written by Kenneth W. Harrow and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Crossing Borders, Dissolving Boundaries

Author : Hein Viljoen
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9401209081
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Crossing Borders, Dissolving Boundaries written by Hein Viljoen and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2013 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Borders separate but also connect self and other, and literary texts not only enact these bordering processes, but form part of such processes. This book gestures towards a borderless world, stepping, as it were, with thousand-mile boots from south to north (even across the Atlantic), from South Africa to Scandinavia. It also shows how literary texts model and remodel borders and bordering processes in rich and meaningful local contexts. The essays assembled here analyse the crossing and negotiation of borders and boundaries in works by Nadine Gordimer, Ingrid Winterbach, Deneys Reitz, Janet Suzman, Marlene van Niekerk, A.S. Byatt, Thomas Harris, Frank A. Jenssen, Eben Venter, Antjie Krog, and others under different signs or conceptual points of attraction. These signs include a spiritual turn, eventfulness, self-understanding, ethnic and linguistic mobilization, performative chronotopes, the grotesque, the carceral, the rhetorical, and the interstitial. Contributors: Ileana Dimitriu, Heilna du Plooy, John Gouws, Anne Heith, Lida Krüger, Susan Meyer, Adéle Nel, Ellen Rees, Johan Schimanski, Tony Ullyatt, Phil van Schalkwyk, Hein Viljoen.

Crossing Borders

Author : Anne Schröder
Publisher : Lit Verlag
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Crossing Borders written by Anne Schröder and published by Lit Verlag. This book was released on 2004 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows new approaches to the African continent and its various cultures, explores different facets of African cultures as they exist or undergo changes, and illustrates how and where African and European cultures come or have come into contact, interact, and create something new. The contributors are social, cultural and literary scientists, linguists, and artists of various cultural backgrounds who investigate topics on an African country and who use novel and often interdisciplinary methods. Their joint interest is a better understanding of the multifaceted character of the African continent, which is still often depicted as a cultural monolith, by exploring contemporary African literature, theatre, film, music and the use of linguistic methods as well as the experience of Africans in diasporas.

Crossing Borders Through Folklore

Author : Alma Jean Billingslea-Brown
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826260098
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book Crossing Borders Through Folklore written by Alma Jean Billingslea-Brown and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining works by Toni Morrison, Paule Marshall, Faith Ringgold, and Betye Saar, this innovative book frames black women's aesthetic sensibilities across art forms. Investigating the relationship between vernacular folk culture and formal expression, this study establishes how each of the four artists engaged the identity issues of the 1960s and used folklore as a strategy for crossing borders in the works they created during the following two decades. Because of its interdisciplinary approach, this study will appeal to students and scholars in many fields, including African American literature, art history, women's studies, diaspora studies, and cultural studies.

Crossing the Line in Africa

Author : Ngwa, Canute Ambe
Publisher : Langaa RPCIG
ISBN 13 : 9956550892
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (565 download)

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Download or read book Crossing the Line in Africa written by Ngwa, Canute Ambe and published by Langaa RPCIG. This book was released on 2019-01-06 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores a collective understanding of the perception and treatment of borders in Africa. The notion of boundary is universal as boundaries are also an important part of human social organization. Through the ages, boundaries have remained the ‘container’ by which national space is delineated and ‘contained’. For as long as there has been human society based on territoriality and space, there have been boundaries. With their dual character of exclusivism and inclusivism, states have proven to adopt a more structural approach to the respect of the former in consciousness of the esteem of international law governing sovereignty and territorial integrity. However, frontier peoples and their realities have often opted for the latter situation, imposing a more functionalist perception of these imaginary lines and prompting a border opinion shift to a more blurring form of representation and meaning in most African communities. This collective multidisciplinary effort of understanding how tangible and intangible borders have influenced Africa’s attitude and existence for ages is worthy in its own rights. The difference between what borders are and what they are not to a people is the mere product of their own estimations and practices, a disposition that leads the contributors to this book to study borders beyond states or nations and how borders are crossed or transferred from one point to the other for the convenience of their histories and being.

Mobility in Contemporary Zimbabwean Literature in English

Author : Magdalena Pfalzgraf
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100039879X
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Book Synopsis Mobility in Contemporary Zimbabwean Literature in English by : Magdalena Pfalzgraf

Download or read book Mobility in Contemporary Zimbabwean Literature in English written by Magdalena Pfalzgraf and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-06-29 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph explores the concept of mobility in Zimbabwean works of fiction published in English between the introduction of the controversial Fast Track Land Reform Programme and the end of the Mugabe era. Since 2000, Zimbabwe has experienced unprecedented levels of transnational out-migration in response to the political conflicts and economic downturn often referred to as the Zimbabwe Crisis. This, in turn, has led to an increased outpouring of literary texts about migration, both in locally produced texts and in works by authors based in the diaspora. Situating Zimbabwe’s recent literary developments in a wider context of Southern African writing and history, this book focuses on texts that portray movement within Zimbabwe’s cities, between village and city, to South Africa, and overseas. The author examines important developments and trends in recent Zimbabwean literature, investigating the link between state authoritarianism and control of mobility, and literature’s potential to intervene into dominant political discourses. The book includes in-depth analyses of ten recent works of fiction published in the post-2000 era and develops mobility as a key category of literary analysis of Zimbabwe’s contemporary literatures. Setting out a rich dialogue between literary criticism and mobility studies, this book will be of interest to researchers of African literature, Southern Africa, migration, and mobility.

Crossing Borders

Author : Ampie Coetzee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Crossing Borders written by Ampie Coetzee and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Crossing Borders

Author : Tapan Basu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789386689368
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (893 download)

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Download or read book Crossing Borders written by Tapan Basu and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crossing Borders is a gathering of twenty original, interdisciplinary essays on the paradigm of borders in African American literature, multi-ethnic U.S. studies, and South Asian studies. These essays by established and mid-career scholars from around the globe employ a variety of approaches to the idea of "border crossings" and represent important contributions to the discourses on modernity, diasporic mobility, populism, migration, exile, sub-nation, trans-nation, and the formation of nationalities, communities, and identities. Borders, in these contexts, signify social and national inequities and hierarchies and also the ways to challenge and transgress entrenched barriers sanctioned by habit, custom, and law. The volume also honors and celebrates the life and work of Amritjit Singh as a teacher, mentor, author, scholar, and editor over half a century. -- Back cover.

The Passport that Does Not Pass Ports

Author : Isabel Balseiro
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781609176471
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (764 download)

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Download or read book The Passport that Does Not Pass Ports written by Isabel Balseiro and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This collection gathers seventeen essays on travel in Africa by twenty-first-century African authors"--

Oral Tradition in African Literature

Author : Chin Ce
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9783703684
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (837 download)

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Download or read book Oral Tradition in African Literature written by Chin Ce and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2015-09-04 with total page 196 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.

Beyond the Boundaries

Author : Mineke Schipper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Boundaries written by Mineke Schipper and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh, innovative, and powerful case for African literature on its own terms. Erudite, well executed, and politically committed....A magnificent and masterful critical reading. V. Y. Mudimbe, Duke University

Crossing Borders with Literature of Diversity

Author : Julia Candace Corliss
Publisher : Bill Harp Teachers Library
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Crossing Borders with Literature of Diversity written by Julia Candace Corliss and published by Bill Harp Teachers Library. This book was released on 1998 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Borders, Media Crossings and the Politics of Translation

Author : Pier Paolo Frassinelli
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 042963935X
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book Borders, Media Crossings and the Politics of Translation written by Pier Paolo Frassinelli and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines concepts of the border and translation within the context of social and cultural theory through the lens of southern Africa. Borders, Media Crossings and the Politics of Translation studies a diverse range of media representations of borders, imagined borders, border struggles, collectivity boundaries and scenes of translation: films, documentaries, literary texts, photographs, websites and other media texts and artistic interventions. The book makes a case for bringing together media texts and sociocultural experiences across multiple platforms. It argues that this transdisciplinary approach is singularly suited to the age of media convergence, when words, speech, music, videos and images compete for attention on the screens of digital devices where the written, oral, aural and visual are constantly mixed and remixed. But it also reminds the reader of the digital divides linked to socioeconomic, cultural, language and geopolitical borders. With its focus on sociocultural borders and translation, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of media studies, African studies and cultural studies.

African Literatures in the Eighties

Author : Dieter Riemenschneider
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789051835182
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book African Literatures in the Eighties written by Dieter Riemenschneider and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1993 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fertile Crossings

Author : Pietro Deandrea
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042014787
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Fertile Crossings written by Pietro Deandrea and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2002 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In retracing some of the routes followed by West African literature in English over the course of the last three decades, this book employs an original multidimensional approach whereby the three main genres - narrative, poetry and drama - are considered in the light of their intricate web of fecund rapport and mutual influence. Authors such as Tutuola, Armah, Aidoo and Awoonor translated the fluid structures of orality into written prose, and consequently infused their works with poetic and dramatic resonance, thereby challenging the canonical dominance of social realism and paving the way for the birth of West African magical realism in Laing, Okri and Cheney-Coker. Starting in the 1970s, poetry on stage has become a mainstream genre in Ghana, thanks to performances by Okai, Anyidoho and Acquah. Boundaries between literary theatre and other genres have undergone a similar dissolution in the affirmation of the concept of 'total art' from Efua Sutherland to ben Abdallah, Osofisan and others. Fertile Crossings offers a study of these topics from various viewpoints, blending in-depth textual analysis with reflections on the political import of the works in question within the context of the present state of African societies, all supported by interviews with most of the authors.

Crossing Borders

Author : Hilary Rouse-Amadi
Publisher : eBook Partnership
ISBN 13 : 1912643995
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book Crossing Borders written by Hilary Rouse-Amadi and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hilary Rouse-Amadi is a poet, teacher and academic. The format of this collection of poems reflects the interconnections between these aspects of her creativity. It was the playwright Sir Tom Stoppard who recently commented that our troubled times can overwhelm the writer, because there is simply too much to write about and respond to. On offer on these pages is poetry of ideas, narrative poetry, lyrical poetry, where the personal is also political and located in the wider context that is the public domain. Venture on a journey with the poet that references some thirty-five countries, acknowledging cultural differences but emphasising what we have in common. Local and global need not conflict, when we recognise, along with the late Jo Cox MP, that what we have in common is greater than that which divides us.