Author: Bernard de Meyer
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9042025808
Category : History
Languages : fr
Pages : 240
Book Description
The Changing Face of African Literature combines both the large picture - a synopsis of current trends in African literature - and the small: studies of individual texts and of themes across several texts. The large and the small are linked by recurring themes, such as gender and sexuality, the nation-state and its collapse, AIDS, war, and suffering. The volume is comparative, bringing together literature in at least five languages and from at least ten national literatures. Such a large, comparative frame is implied by most discussion of African literature but is too seldom seen. At the same time, the collection also problematizes the comparison: the goal is to make clear what African literatures have in common but also where they diverge. What difference do distinct literary traditions, readerships, and publishing patterns make to literatures which share a common thematic and so many of the same questions and needs? By juxtaposing contemporary texts form several traditions, the intention of this collection is to bring out the themes that are currently dominant in African literatures generally. After a preface by Liz Gunner and a wide-ranging introduction by the editors, the collection presents keynote essays on new paradigms in African literature, before treating specific themes - recent crime fiction, the Afrikaans and anglophone novel, feminist literature, 'migritude' - and studies of recent works by individual authors such as André Brink, Henri Djombo, Pie Tshibanda, Bessora, Nadine Gordimer, and Paulina Chiziane, as well as the South African television series Yizo Yizo.
Les Nouveaux Visages de la Littérature Africaine
Author: Bernard de Meyer
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9042025808
Category : History
Languages : fr
Pages : 240
Book Description
The Changing Face of African Literature combines both the large picture - a synopsis of current trends in African literature - and the small: studies of individual texts and of themes across several texts. The large and the small are linked by recurring themes, such as gender and sexuality, the nation-state and its collapse, AIDS, war, and suffering. The volume is comparative, bringing together literature in at least five languages and from at least ten national literatures. Such a large, comparative frame is implied by most discussion of African literature but is too seldom seen. At the same time, the collection also problematizes the comparison: the goal is to make clear what African literatures have in common but also where they diverge. What difference do distinct literary traditions, readerships, and publishing patterns make to literatures which share a common thematic and so many of the same questions and needs? By juxtaposing contemporary texts form several traditions, the intention of this collection is to bring out the themes that are currently dominant in African literatures generally. After a preface by Liz Gunner and a wide-ranging introduction by the editors, the collection presents keynote essays on new paradigms in African literature, before treating specific themes - recent crime fiction, the Afrikaans and anglophone novel, feminist literature, 'migritude' - and studies of recent works by individual authors such as André Brink, Henri Djombo, Pie Tshibanda, Bessora, Nadine Gordimer, and Paulina Chiziane, as well as the South African television series Yizo Yizo.
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9042025808
Category : History
Languages : fr
Pages : 240
Book Description
The Changing Face of African Literature combines both the large picture - a synopsis of current trends in African literature - and the small: studies of individual texts and of themes across several texts. The large and the small are linked by recurring themes, such as gender and sexuality, the nation-state and its collapse, AIDS, war, and suffering. The volume is comparative, bringing together literature in at least five languages and from at least ten national literatures. Such a large, comparative frame is implied by most discussion of African literature but is too seldom seen. At the same time, the collection also problematizes the comparison: the goal is to make clear what African literatures have in common but also where they diverge. What difference do distinct literary traditions, readerships, and publishing patterns make to literatures which share a common thematic and so many of the same questions and needs? By juxtaposing contemporary texts form several traditions, the intention of this collection is to bring out the themes that are currently dominant in African literatures generally. After a preface by Liz Gunner and a wide-ranging introduction by the editors, the collection presents keynote essays on new paradigms in African literature, before treating specific themes - recent crime fiction, the Afrikaans and anglophone novel, feminist literature, 'migritude' - and studies of recent works by individual authors such as André Brink, Henri Djombo, Pie Tshibanda, Bessora, Nadine Gordimer, and Paulina Chiziane, as well as the South African television series Yizo Yizo.
African Literature
Author: Jonathan P. Smithe
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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.
Multiculturalisme et identité en littérature et en art
Author: Université de Polynésie Française
Publisher: Editions L'Harmattan
ISBN:
Category : Comparative literature
Languages : fr
Pages : 472
Book Description
Le multiculturalisme est une réalité, une « fatalité » liée au Nouveau Monde : le colonialisme l’a créé en Amérique, en Afrique, dans les espaces du Pacifique. Le multiculturalisme est aussi une conquête, une victoire sur une volonté coloniale d’assimilation ou de développement séparé foncièrement inégalitaire. Mais une société peut-elle vivre démocratiquement en intégrant plusieurs communautés, plusieurs cultures ? La production esthétique est, bien évidemment, le lieu social de ce questionnement. C’est l’objectif de cette étude.
Publisher: Editions L'Harmattan
ISBN:
Category : Comparative literature
Languages : fr
Pages : 472
Book Description
Le multiculturalisme est une réalité, une « fatalité » liée au Nouveau Monde : le colonialisme l’a créé en Amérique, en Afrique, dans les espaces du Pacifique. Le multiculturalisme est aussi une conquête, une victoire sur une volonté coloniale d’assimilation ou de développement séparé foncièrement inégalitaire. Mais une société peut-elle vivre démocratiquement en intégrant plusieurs communautés, plusieurs cultures ? La production esthétique est, bien évidemment, le lieu social de ce questionnement. C’est l’objectif de cette étude.
Ecriture et identité dans la littérature africaine
Author: Bokiba André-Patient
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African literature (French)
Languages : fr
Pages : 287
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African literature (French)
Languages : fr
Pages : 287
Book Description
French Twentieth Bibliography
Author: Douglas W. Alden
Publisher: Susquehanna University Press
ISBN: 9780945636861
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
This series of bibliographical references is one of the most important tools for research in modern and contemporary French literature. No other bibliography represents the scholarly activities and publications of these fields as completely.
Publisher: Susquehanna University Press
ISBN: 9780945636861
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
This series of bibliographical references is one of the most important tools for research in modern and contemporary French literature. No other bibliography represents the scholarly activities and publications of these fields as completely.
The Desiring Modes of Being Black
Author: Jean-Paul Rocchi
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1783484004
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
A critique of theory through literature that celebrates the diversity of black being, The Desiring Modes of Being Black explores how literature unearths theoretical blind spots while reasserting the legitimacy of emotional turbulence in the controlled realm of reason that rationality claims to establish. This approach operates a critical shift by examining psychoanalytical texts from the literary perspective of black desiring subjectivities and experiences. This combination of psychoanalysis and the politics of literary interpretation of black texts helps determine how contemporary African American and black literature and queer texts come to defy and challenge the racial and sexual postulates of psychoanalysis or indeed any theoretical system that intends to define race, gender and sexualities. The Desiring Modes of Being Black includes essays on James Baldwin, Sigmund Freud, Melvin Dixon, Essex Hemphill, Assotto Saint, and Rozena Maart. The metacritical reading they unfold interweaves African American culture, Fanonian and Caribbean thought, South African black consciousness, French theory, psychoanalysis, and gender and queer studies.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1783484004
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
A critique of theory through literature that celebrates the diversity of black being, The Desiring Modes of Being Black explores how literature unearths theoretical blind spots while reasserting the legitimacy of emotional turbulence in the controlled realm of reason that rationality claims to establish. This approach operates a critical shift by examining psychoanalytical texts from the literary perspective of black desiring subjectivities and experiences. This combination of psychoanalysis and the politics of literary interpretation of black texts helps determine how contemporary African American and black literature and queer texts come to defy and challenge the racial and sexual postulates of psychoanalysis or indeed any theoretical system that intends to define race, gender and sexualities. The Desiring Modes of Being Black includes essays on James Baldwin, Sigmund Freud, Melvin Dixon, Essex Hemphill, Assotto Saint, and Rozena Maart. The metacritical reading they unfold interweaves African American culture, Fanonian and Caribbean thought, South African black consciousness, French theory, psychoanalysis, and gender and queer studies.
ECRITURE ET IDENTITE DANS LA LITTERATURE AFRICAINE
Author: André-Patient Bokiba
Publisher: Editions L'Harmattan
ISBN: 2296377378
Category : Fiction
Languages : fr
Pages : 285
Book Description
La littérature africaine est le produit de la rencontre, de l'accouplement de cultures et d'une langue qui ne sont pas les unes et l'autre originaire d'un même espace. Elle est aussi le produit d'une histoire, l'histoire d'un cri, d'un sursaut qu'elle se charge de proférer au monde. Le propos de cet ouvrage est d'explorer de l'intérieur les questions majeures que pose la singularité créatrice de l'écrivain africain.
Publisher: Editions L'Harmattan
ISBN: 2296377378
Category : Fiction
Languages : fr
Pages : 285
Book Description
La littérature africaine est le produit de la rencontre, de l'accouplement de cultures et d'une langue qui ne sont pas les unes et l'autre originaire d'un même espace. Elle est aussi le produit d'une histoire, l'histoire d'un cri, d'un sursaut qu'elle se charge de proférer au monde. Le propos de cet ouvrage est d'explorer de l'intérieur les questions majeures que pose la singularité créatrice de l'écrivain africain.
The Body in Francophone Literature
Author: El Hadji Malick Ndiaye
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476625360
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
Much of Francophone literature is a response to an elaborate discourse that served to bolster colonial French notions of national grandeur and to justify expansion of French territories overseas. A form of colonial exoticism saw the colonized subject as a physical, cultural, aesthetic and even sexual singularity. Francophone writers sought to rehabilitate the status of non-Western peoples who, through the use of anthropometric techniques, had been racially classified as inferior or primitive. Drawing on various Francophone texts, this collection of new essays offers a compelling study of the literary body--both corporeal and figurative. Topics include the embodiment of diasporic identity, the body politic in prison writing, women's bodies, and the body's expression of trauma inflicted by genocidal violence.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476625360
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
Much of Francophone literature is a response to an elaborate discourse that served to bolster colonial French notions of national grandeur and to justify expansion of French territories overseas. A form of colonial exoticism saw the colonized subject as a physical, cultural, aesthetic and even sexual singularity. Francophone writers sought to rehabilitate the status of non-Western peoples who, through the use of anthropometric techniques, had been racially classified as inferior or primitive. Drawing on various Francophone texts, this collection of new essays offers a compelling study of the literary body--both corporeal and figurative. Topics include the embodiment of diasporic identity, the body politic in prison writing, women's bodies, and the body's expression of trauma inflicted by genocidal violence.
Critical Perspectives on Cameroon Writing
Author: Ndumbe Eyoh
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9956791482
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 569
Book Description
This landmark volume brings together a very rich harvest of forty critical essays on Cameroon literature by Cameroon literary scholars. The book is the result of the Second Conference on Cameroon Literature which took place at the University of Buea in 1994. The Buea conference was motivated by a determination to look at Cameroon literature straight into its face and criticize it using literary criteria of the strictest kind. Gone were the times when the criticism was complacent because it was believed that a nascent literature could easily be stifled by application of rather strict cannons of literary criticism. Both writers and critics had a lot to say. Subjects dealt with ranged from general topics on literature, survival and national identity, through specialized articles on prose, poetry, drama, translation, language, folklore, childrens literature, Journalism and politics. It is the hope of the volume editors that the publication of these papers will instigate the kind of actions that were recommended and that the prolific nature of Cameroon literature will equally give rise to a prolific and robust criticism.
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9956791482
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 569
Book Description
This landmark volume brings together a very rich harvest of forty critical essays on Cameroon literature by Cameroon literary scholars. The book is the result of the Second Conference on Cameroon Literature which took place at the University of Buea in 1994. The Buea conference was motivated by a determination to look at Cameroon literature straight into its face and criticize it using literary criteria of the strictest kind. Gone were the times when the criticism was complacent because it was believed that a nascent literature could easily be stifled by application of rather strict cannons of literary criticism. Both writers and critics had a lot to say. Subjects dealt with ranged from general topics on literature, survival and national identity, through specialized articles on prose, poetry, drama, translation, language, folklore, childrens literature, Journalism and politics. It is the hope of the volume editors that the publication of these papers will instigate the kind of actions that were recommended and that the prolific nature of Cameroon literature will equally give rise to a prolific and robust criticism.
African Philosophy in Search of Identity
Author: D A Masolo
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474470777
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
African Philosophy in Search of Identity
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474470777
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
African Philosophy in Search of Identity