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Author: Romanus Okey Muoneke Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers ISBN: Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 200
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This book defines the role of the literary artist in terms of redemption. Arguing that the artist has a social responsibility in society, it explores Achebe's role as a writer as demonstrated in his novels. The book is as fascinating as it is challenging, and offers new insights into our understanding of Achebe's novels.
Author: Romanus Okey Muoneke Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers ISBN: Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 200
Book Description
This book defines the role of the literary artist in terms of redemption. Arguing that the artist has a social responsibility in society, it explores Achebe's role as a writer as demonstrated in his novels. The book is as fascinating as it is challenging, and offers new insights into our understanding of Achebe's novels.
Author: Malcolm Miles Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1350240001 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 233
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Art has always been central to moments of great social change. From the avant-garde to the ages of revolution, the act of rebellious creation has been crucial to bringing people and ideas together. However, in an increasingly fractured world characterised by upheaval and crisis, what role can art play in ushering in transformation? Malcolm Miles offers a guide to contemporary art and activism, setting it firmly within the context of the avant garde and its legacies in the postwar period. He explores the rise of direct action to replace representational politics in organizations like Occupy and Extinction Rebellion, and in the movements to destroy or remove statues of slavers, and finds parallels in anti-institutional art practices. By engaging with the significant theoretical innovations of the last 50 years - modernism, postmodernism and contemporary critical thinking - Miles provides both an overview of political aesthetics and an introduction to how art activism works in its most memorable moments in history. Art Rebellion argues that beauty is radically other to the dominant society; that power relations can be transformed; that protest cultures and contemporary art grow together; and that art has a crucial interruptive role in forming new, more equal and just, realities.
Author: Robert Flores Publisher: ISBN: 9780971099715 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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"Jesus Lives", first seen on a fellow student's notebook, was the phrase that sparked a fire inside of artist Robert Flores' life. Questions soon followed: Who was this Jesus? Was Jesus indeed alive? Why was He so important in world history? Robert Flores, in this autobiographical testimony, recounts his anxieties and frustrations of living a life without God. Tracing his steps through junior high and high school, he describes the experiences that brought him face-to-face with the person of Jesus Christ. In this book you will see an honest look at one artist's quest to find absolute Truth, a purpose in life and a relationship with God Almighty. "Broken" is 1/3 Autobiographical Testimony, 1/3 Sketchbook and 1/3 Short Story by Robert H. Flores.
Author: Blessing Diala-Ogamba Publisher: Lexington Books ISBN: 1498502083 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 197
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This book explores the different ways women have been liberating themselves from the shackles of patriarchy and cultural laws that inhibit their independence and freedom to show that women are also contributing meaningfully to society. Women have worked to attain freedom through speaking out, writing memoirs, fiction, plays, poetry, and essays. The creative experiences of women are captured in this book, thus fulfilling the book's aim to give women voices to air their views and show that they are effectual members of society. The book examines the roles played by patriarchy, religion, and socioeconomic and political systems that keep women to the background. It also examines the issue of education, otherhood, marginalization, cultural imposition, and the diverse positions of women in local and international affairs. The book testifies that women's literature, and the stories of women all over the world, can be appreciated and viewed from different perspectives because of the diverse cultural environment in which women find themselves. This confirms that the issue of marginalization, suppression, and oppression of women are on-going problems in different societies around the world.
Author: Ode Ogede Publisher: A&C Black ISBN: 1441172882 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 144
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Reader's Guides provide a comprehensive starting point for any advanced student, giving an overview of the context, criticism and influence of key works. Each guide also offers students fresh critical insights and provides a practical introduction to close reading and to analysing literary language and form. They provide up-to-date, authoritative but accessible guides to the most commonly studied classic texts. Chinua Achebe's remarkable novel Things Fall Apart (1958) is probably the best known African novel and has become one of the world's most influential literary masterpieces. Since publication, a total of nearly 12 million copies have been sold, with translations into more than 50 languages. Despite its undoubted success, its apparent simplicity has tended to blind readers to the dazzling storytelling resources and the inventive language, plot, setting, and characterization which first draw them to the novel and keep them reading. This is the ideal guide to the text, setting Things Fall Apart in its historical, intellectual and cultural contexts, offering analyses of its themes, style and structure, providing exemplary close readings, presenting an up-to-date account of its critical reception and examining its afterlife in literature, film and popular culture. It includes points for discussion, suggestions for further study and an annotated guide to relevant reading.
Author: Karen Laura Thornber Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 1684170516 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 610
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By the turn of the twentieth century, Japan’s military and economic successes made it the dominant power in East Asia, drawing hundreds of thousands of Chinese, Korean, and Taiwanese students to the metropole and sending thousands of Japanese to other parts of East Asia. The constant movement of peoples, ideas, and texts in the Japanese empire created numerous literary contact nebulae, fluid spaces of diminished hierarchies where writers grapple with and transculturate one another’s creative output. Drawing extensively on vernacular sources in Japanese, Chinese, and Korean, this book analyzes the most active of these contact nebulae: semicolonial Chinese, occupied Manchurian, and colonial Korean and Taiwanese transculturations of Japanese literature. It explores how colonial and semicolonial writers discussed, adapted, translated, and recast thousands of Japanese creative works, both affirming and challenging Japan’s cultural authority. Such efforts not only blurred distinctions among resistance, acquiescence, and collaboration but also shattered cultural and national barriers central to the discourse of empire. In this context, twentieth-century East Asian literatures can no longer be understood in isolation from one another, linked only by their encounters with the West, but instead must be seen in constant interaction throughout the Japanese empire and beyond.
Author: Edward H. Wouk Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004343253 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 858
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Frans Floris de Vriendt radically transformed Netherlandish art. His monumental mythologies introduced a new appreciation for the heroic nude to the Low Countries and his religious art challenged standards of decorum. Born into a family of sculptors and architects, Floris refashioned his art through travel, first studying with the humanist painter Lambert Lombard in Liège and then continuing on to Italy. These experiences defined the hybridizing novelty of his art, forged by juxtaposing antique and modern, Italian and northern sources. This book maps Floris’s hybrid style onto shifting conceptions of cultural, religious, and political identity on the eve of the Dutch Revolt. It explores his collaborations and rivalries, engagement with artistic theory, hierarchical workshop, and revolutionary use of print.
Author: Ogaga Okuyade Publisher: African Books Collective ISBN: 0979085888 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 374
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Eco-Critical Literature: Regreening African Landscapescritically examines the representations, constructions, and imaginings of the relationship between the human and non-human worlds in contemporary African literature and culture. It offers innovative, incisive, and critical perspectives on the importance of sustaining a symbiotic relationship between humans and their environment. The book thus carries African scholarship beyond the mere analysis of themes and style to ethical and activist roles of literature having an impact on readers and the public. It is a scholarship geared towards rectifying ecological imbalance that is prevalent in many parts of the continent that forms the setting, context, and thematic discourse of the works or authors studied in this book. Besides sensitizing the African readership to the need for the restoration of harmony between man and the environment, this book equally aims to further familiarize scholars and students working on African literature and culture with the theoretical concerns of eco-criticism.
Author: Kalu Ogbaa Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1000430618 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 229
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The Life and Times of Chinua Achebe introduces readers to the life, literary works, and times of arguably the most widely-read African novelist of recent times, an icon, both in continental Africa and abroad. The book weaves together the story of Chinua Achebe, a young Igboman whose novel Things Fall Apart opened the eyes of the world to a more realistic image of Africa that was warped by generations of European travelers, colonists, and writers. Whilst continuing to write further influential novels and essays, Achebe also taught other African writers to use their skills to help their national leaders to fight for their freedoms in the post-colonial era, as internal warfare compounded the damage caused by European powers during the colonial era. In this book Kalu Ogbaa, an esteemed expert on Achebe and his works, draws on extensive research and personal interviews with the great man and his colleagues and friends, to tell the story of Achebe and his work. This intimate and powerful new biography will be essential reading for students and scholars of Chinua Achebe, and to anyone with an interest in the literature and post-colonial politics of Africa.
Author: Romanus Okey Muoneke
Author: Romanus Okey Muoneke
Author: Malcolm Miles
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Author: Blessing Diala-Ogamba
Author: Ode Ogede
Author: Karen Laura Thornber
Author: Edward H. Wouk
Author: Ogaga Okuyade
Author: Kalu Ogbaa