African literatures and beyond : a florilegium /
This tribute collection reflects the wide range and diversity of James Gibbs's academic interests. The focus is on Africa, but comparative studies of other literatures also receive attention. Fiction, drama, and poetry by writers from Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Eritrea, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Sou...
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| 245 | 0 | 0 | |a African literatures and beyond : |b a florilegium / |c edited by Bernth Lindfors and Geoffrey V. Davis. |
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction; West Africa; Cultural Studies, Power, and the Idea of the Hegemonic in Wole Soyinka's Works; Interpreting the Interpreters: The Narratives of the Postcolony in Wole Soyinka's The Interpreters; The Enduring Relevance of Kobina Sekyi's The Blinkards in Twenty-First-Century Ghana; The Agony and the Ecstasy: Sierra Leonean Dramatists' Confrontation with the Sierra Leonean Landscape; The Reverend Joseph Jackson Fuller: A 'Native' Evangelist and 'Black' Identity in the Cameroons; Eastern and Central Africa. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a A Modest Plant, Easily Crushed: Radio Drama in Blin, EritreaThrough Determination to Happiness? Eastern African Slavery in Life and Literature; Shine your light, Zimbabwe -- South Africa; From Mqhayi to Sole: Four Poems on the Sinking of the Troopship Mendi; Fieldwork as Translation: Linnaeus' Apostle Anders Sparrman and the Hottentot Perspective; ElseWhere; Orality and Performance: A Source of Pan-African Social Self; Africans and Ireland: History, Society, and the Black Nexus; Ira Aldridge in Stockholm. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a ""Who'll get my library after I'm gone?"" An Interview with the Septuagenarian Afro- German Africanist Theodor Wonja MichaelInto the Heart of Whiteness: Performing African Moon in Krefeld: Gabriel Gbadamosi in Conversation; Von Jenseits des Meeres: Romantic and Revolutionary Visions of Caribbean History; ""But it will have to be a new English"": A Comparative Discussion of the 'Nativization' of English Among Afro- and Indo-English Authors; Journals; African Literature Today and African Theatre: The James Gibbs Connection; Poetry, Fiction, Drama; He Spoke Truth-Quietly. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a The Carwash, Clifton Moor, York (for James & Patience)Crosscut; Kariba's Last Stand; Odùduwà, Don't Go! A One-Act Play; Mosquito! Or, Addition, Vernacular, or Rat? A Railway for Freetown; James Gibbs's Pinteresque Diversion; Notes on Contributors. | |
| 520 | |a This tribute collection reflects the wide range and diversity of James Gibbs's academic interests. The focus is on Africa, but comparative studies of other literatures also receive attention. Fiction, drama, and poetry by writers from Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Eritrea, Malawi, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Ireland, England, Germany, India, and the Caribbean are surveyed alongside significant missionaries, scientists, performers, and scholars. The writers discussed include Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe, Kobina Sekyi, Raphael Armattoe, J.E. Casely Hayford, Michael Dei-Anang, Kofi Awoonor, Ayi Kwei A. | ||
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