Author: G. D. KillamPublisher: East African Publishers
ISBN: 9780435916718
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
The Writing of East and Central Africa
Author: G. D. KillamPublisher: East African Publishers
ISBN: 9780435916718
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Africa Writes Back
Author: James CurreyPublisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821447920
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
June 17, 2008, is the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart by Heinemann. This publication provided the impetus for the foundation of the African Writers Series in 1962 with Chinua Achebe as the editorial adviser. Africa Writes Back: The African Writers Series and the Launch of African Literature captures the energy of literary publishing in a new and undefined field. Portraits of the leading characters and the many consultants and readers providing reports and advice to new and established writers make Africa Writes Back a stand-out book. James Currey’s voice and insights are an added bonus. CONTENTS Publishing and selling the African Writers Series The African Writers Series Portfolio & George Hallett’s covers Main dates for the African Writers Series INTRODUCTION: The establishment of African Literature Publishing Chinua Achebe 1. WRITERS FROM WEST AFRICA Nigeria: The country where so much started Negritude from Senegal to Cameroun Magic & realism from Ghana, The Gambia & Sierra Leone 2. WRITERS FROM EASTERN AFRICA Towards the oral & the popular in Kenya, Uganda & Tanzania Publishing Ngugi 3. WRITERS FROM THE HORN & NORTH-EASTERN AFRICA Emperors in Ethiopia Publishing Nuruddin Farah Arab authors in Egypt & Sudan 4. WRITERS FROM SOUTH AFRICA Resistance in South Africa Publishing Alex la Guma Publishing Dennis Brutus Publishing Bessie Head Publishing Masizi Kunene 5. WRITERS FROM SOUTHERN AFRICAN Guns & Guerrillas in Mozambique &Angola Zambia Shall be Free Death & detention in Malawi The struggle to become Zimbabwe Publishing Dambudzo Marechera CONCLUSION: Is there still a role for the African Writers Series?
A Naked Needle
Author: Nuruddin FarahPublisher: Heinemann Educational Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Northeast African Studies
Author: African Literature Today
Author: Eldred D. JonesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : JUVENILE FICTION
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
African Writers Series
Author: Southern Postcolonialisms
Author: Sumanyu SatpathyPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000083993
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
Southern Postcolonialisms is an anthology of critical essays on new literary representations from the Global South that seeks to re-invent/reorient the ideological, disciplinary, aesthetic, and pedagogical thrust of Postcolonial Studies in accordance with the new and shifting politico-economic realities/transactions between the North and the South, as well as within the Global South, in an era of globalization. Since the emergence of Postcolonial Theory in the 1980s, the shape of the world has changed dramatically. Old Cold War boundaries have shifted in the wake of the collapse of communism, Globalization, on an unprecedented scale, has dramatically changed the meaning of time and space. The rise of the US as a new imperial power has profound implications for the world order. In the South, new emerging markets have challenged the older division of industrial ‘first world’ and non-industrial ‘third world’. In most parts of the world, the academy is struggling to keep up with these developments. One result has been a major transnational turn in the humanities and social sciences. Terms like ‘world history’, ‘globalization’, ‘glocalization’ and ‘transnationalism’ now dominate academic agendas worldwide. These changing circumstances raise far-reaching questions. What does the new emerging world order mean for established models of postcolonial theory? Is postcolonialism as a field of study being overtaken by models of globalization and transnationalism? What implications do the new configurations in the South have for postcolonial theory? This volume, drawn from a major literary conference at Delhi University, provides a set of perspectives on these questions. With a majority of contributions by scholars from the South, these research articles have a dual focus – they revisit older debates on postcolonial theory, while suggesting new perspectives and directions.
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Author: The Nature of Oral Influence on the African Novel
Author: Samuel Amanor DseaguPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African fiction (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
The Barbed Wire
Author: Mukotani RugyendoPublisher: Heinemann Educational Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description