Author: Albert S. GérardPublisher:
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Category : African literature
Languages : en
Pages : 134
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Comparative Literature and African Literatures
Author: Albert S. GérardPublisher:
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Category : African literature
Languages : en
Pages : 134
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Comparative Literature and African Literatures : a Series of Lectures Read at the University of South Africa in July 1981
Author: ed from the tape-recordings by Albert S GerarPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Comparative Literature and African Literatures
Author: C. F. SwanepoelPublisher:
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Category : African literature
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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African Literature
Author: Jonathan P. SmithePublisher: Nova Publishers
ISBN: 9781590332900
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
African literature, like the continent itself is enormous and diverse. East Africa's literature is different from West Africa's which is quite different from South Africa's which has different influences on it than North Africa's. Africa's literature is based on a widespread heritage of oral literature, some of which has now been recorded. Arabic influence can be detected as well as European, especially French and English. Legends, myths, proverbs, riddles and folktales form the mother load of the oral literature. This book presents an overview of African literature as well as a comprehensive bibliography, primarily of English language sources. Accessed by subject, author and title indexes.
A South African and American Comparative Reader
Author: Andrew OffenburgerPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Southern African Literature in African Languages
Author: D. B. Z. NtuliPublisher: Acacia Publishing
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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SA Literature
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Category : South African literature
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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Comparative Approaches to African Literatures
Author: Bernth LindforsPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004483721
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Some of the essays in this book - notably those concerned with examining Western influences on sub-Saharan African writings (tracing Shakespearean and Brechtian echoes in Nigerian drama, for instance, or following the footprints of Sherlock Holmes in Swahili detective fiction) - fit the traditional definition of comparative literature. These are essays that cross national literary boundaries and sometimes transcend language barriers as well. They look for correspondences in related literary phenomena from widely dispersed areas of the globe, bringing together what is akin from what is akimbo. But most of the essays included here involve closer comparisons. Two focus on works produced in different languages within the same African nation (Yoruba and English in Nigeria, Afrikaans and English in South Africa), and one presents a taxonomy of dominant literary forms in English in three East African nations. Others concentrate on the oeuvre of a single author, and on the likely future output of exiled writers who soon will be returning home. One essay contrasts discursive tendencies within the same text, and another investigates conflicting African and Western religious beliefs. A great variety of comparative methodologies is deployed here; not all of these are transnational, multilingual or pluralistic in scope. The last two groups of essays deal with matters of characterization and authorial reputation. Studies of the depiction of African Americans, politicians and women in a wide range of African literary texts are followed by an assessment of the current standing of anglophone Africa's leading authors. In entering such highly contested terrain, the comparatist approach adopted has been that of the neutral witness to early African attempts - comparatist in their own way - to define an African canon of classic texts. Authors discussed include: Ama Ata Aidoo (Ghana); Chinua Achebe, John Pepper Clark, Cyprian Ekwensi, D.O. Fagunwa, Wole Soyinka and Amos Tutuola (Nigeria); Peter Abrahams, J.M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, Alex La Guma, Thomas Mofolo, Es'kia Mphahlele and Karel Schoeman (South Africa).
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