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Category : African literature
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Littérature Néo-africaine
Author: A Bibliography of Neo-African Literature from Africa, America, and the Caribbean
Author: Janheinz JahnPublisher: London, Deutsch
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Category : African literature
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
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.
Resources in Education
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1084
Book Description
Serves as an index to Eric reports [microform].
Handbook of Latin American Literature (Routledge Revivals)
Author: David William FosterPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131751825X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 821
Book Description
First published in 1987 (this second edition in 1992), the Handbook of Latin American Literature offers readers the opportunity to explore this literary history in the English Language and constitutes an ideological approach to Latin American Literature. It provides both concise information concerning particular authors, works, and literary traditions of Latin America as well as comprehensive material about the various national literatures of the area. This book will therefore be of interest to Hispanic scholars, as well as more general readers and non-Hispanists.
Critical Perspectives on Dennis Brutus
Author: Craig W. McLuckiePublisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN: 9780894107696
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Poet, activist, teacher, and scholar, Dennis Brutus is an influential figure in African literature. Exploring his life and writings, this volume looks at Brutus's childhood, university days, his arrest and imprisonment, and his eventual return to South Africa in 1991.
European-language Writing in Sub-Saharan Africa
Author: Albert S. GérardPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9789630538329
Category : Africa, Sub-Saharan
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
The first major comparative study of African writing in western languages, European-language Writing in Sub-Saharan Africa, edited by Albert S. Gérard, falls into four wide-ranging sections: an overview of early contacts and colonial developments "Under Western Eyes"; chapters on "Black Consciousness" manifest in the debates over Panafricanism and Negritude; a group of essays on mental decolonization expressed in "Black Power" texts at the time of independence struggles; and finally "Comparative Vistas," sketching directions that future comparative study might explore. An introductory e.
The Black Mind
Author: Oscar Ronald DathornePublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452912289
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Languages : en
Pages : 541
Book Description
African Literature in the Twentieth Century
Author: O. R. DathornePublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 0816607699
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Explores intellectual currents in African prose and verse from sung or chanted lines to modern writings
African Thoughts on Colonial and Neo-Colonial Worlds
Author: Anaïs AngeloPublisher: Neofelis Verlag
ISBN: 3958080839
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
This book shows the many facets of African engagements with the world. It starts from the premise that current global asymmetries ascribing Africa to a marginalized position are the effects of colonial and imperial pasts still lingering on. The decolonization process of the post-war structure which privileges the West in both political and economic terms. While new dependencies emerged, several old bonds were maintained and continue to influence African affairs quite strikingly. It is appropriate, then, to call these continued unequal relations between Africa and the West frankly 'neo-colonial'. This designation applies all the more as the post-colonial states of Africa inherited a complex legacy of foreign rule – colonial frontiers, colonial languages, colonial infrastructure and authoritarian institutions, as well as the social intricacies and imbalances so characteristic of the 'colonial situation'. The contributions to this volume look at various aspects of these complex processes from intellectual history perspectives. The topics dealt with are manifold. Contributions deliberately attack key themes, ideas and discourses of an intellectual history of Africa ('state', 'modernity', 'development', 'dependency', 'art', etc.), and introduce important engaged public intellectuals from Africa and the African diaspora. What is Africa, and how is she related to the rest of the world? How can she overcome her internal problems and her external dependencies? – These are perennial questions critically tackled by Africans throughout the 20th century. Dealing with various cases looked at from a variety of perspectives, the contributions to this book offer original insights into the intellectual history of Africa.