Reading contemporary African literature : critical perspectives /
Reading Contemporary African Literature brings together scholarship on, critical debates about, and examples of reading African literature in all genres - poetry, fiction, and drama including popular culture. The anthology offers studies of African literature from interdisciplinary perspectives that...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam :
Rodopi,
2013
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| Series: | Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ;
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Section I: General Perspectives; 1. 'English Does Not Kill': Writing Lives in the Language of the 'Other'; Section II: Fiction; 2. A Stylistic Analysis of the Story Element in Ngugi's A Grain of Wheat; 3. Mahilet: A Laboratory of Stylistic Experimentation; 4. Through the Male Eyes: Gendered Styles in Contemporary Zambian Fiction; 5. Politics and Stylistics of Female (Re)Presentation in James Ng'ombe's Sugarcane with Salt; 6. Telling Lives: Myth, Metaphor and Metafiction in Zakes Mda's Cion.
- 7. Politics and Poetics of Characterization in M.G. Vassanji's The Book of Secrets8. The Invisible Twin: Visibility and Identity in Marie-Thérèse Humbert's À l'autre bout de moi; 9. Thematic Design and Stylistic Patterns in Cameron Duodu's The Gab Boys; 10. 'We Can Redream this World and Make the Dream Real': The Utopian Quest in Ben Okri's Primary Myths; 11. Orality and the Emergence of Disrupted Narrative Voices in Charles Samupindi's Pawns; 12. 'Zimbolicious': Shona-English Stylistics in Lyrics and Literature; Section III: Poetry and Orature.
- 13. Repression and Beyond: Ideological Commitment and Style in Jack Mapanje's and Steve Chimombo's Poetry14. Oguaa Aban and Cape Coast Castle: Same Edifice, Different Metaphors in the Poetry of Gaddiel Acquaah and Kwadwo Opuku-Agyemang; 15. Self and Nature: The Cean Dialogues; 16. Transitions in South African Urban Poetry: The City of Johannesburg in Three Poems of the Apartheid Period; 17. Verbal Fluidities and Masculine Anxieties of the Glocal Urban Imaginary in Kenyan Genge Rap; Section IV: Drama and Theatre; 18. Language Use and Identity Negotiation in Cameroonian Drama.
- 19. Afrikaans and Afrikaner Nationalism in Deon Opperman's Donkerland20. 'Neither Peace nor War': The Role of Theatre in Re-Imagining the New Eritrea; Contributors.
