Author: Honorine Andeme AbessoloPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African literature (French)
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Postcolonial African Literary and Visual Arts: A Father's Death as Allegory of Dislocated Culture
Author: Honorine Andeme AbessoloPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African literature (French)
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Dissertation Abstracts International
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
MLA International Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and Literatures
Author: Under the Udala Trees
Author: Chinelo OkparantaPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544003446
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
Inspired by her mother's stories of war and Nigeria's folktale traditions, Under the Udala Trees is Chinelo Okparanta's deeply searching, powerful debut about the dangers of living and loving openly
Culture and Imperialism
Author: Edward W. SaidPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307829650
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
A landmark work from the author of Orientalism that explores the long-overlooked connections between the Western imperial endeavor and the culture that both reflected and reinforced it. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as the Western powers built empires that stretched from Australia to the West Indies, Western artists created masterpieces ranging from Mansfield Park to Heart of Darkness and Aida. Yet most cultural critics continue to see these phenomena as separate. Edward Said looks at these works alongside those of such writers as W. B. Yeats, Chinua Achebe, and Salman Rushdie to show how subject peoples produced their own vigorous cultures of opposition and resistance. Vast in scope and stunning in its erudition, Culture and Imperialism reopens the dialogue between literature and the life of its time.
Things Fall Apart
Author: Chinua AchebePublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0385474547
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
“A true classic of world literature . . . A masterpiece that has inspired generations of writers in Nigeria, across Africa, and around the world.” —Barack Obama “African literature is incomplete and unthinkable without the works of Chinua Achebe.” —Toni Morrison Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Things Fall Apart is the first of three novels in Chinua Achebe's critically acclaimed African Trilogy. It is a classic narrative about Africa's cataclysmic encounter with Europe as it establishes a colonial presence on the continent. Told through the fictional experiences of Okonkwo, a wealthy and fearless Igbo warrior of Umuofia in the late 1800s, Things Fall Apart explores one man's futile resistance to the devaluing of his Igbo traditions by British political andreligious forces and his despair as his community capitulates to the powerful new order. With more than 20 million copies sold and translated into fifty-seven languages, Things Fall Apart provides one of the most illuminating and permanent monuments to African experience. Achebe does not only capture life in a pre-colonial African village, he conveys the tragedy of the loss of that world while broadening our understanding of our contemporary realities.
The Fishermen
Author: Chigozie ObiomaPublisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316338362
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
In this striking novel about an unforgettable childhood, four Nigerian brothers encounter a madman whose mystic prophecy of violence threatens the core of their close-knit family Told by nine-year-old Benjamin, the youngest of four brothers, The Fishermen is the Cain and Abel-esque story of a childhood in Nigeria, in the small town of Akure. When their father has to travel to a distant city for work, the brothers take advantage of his absence to skip school and go fishing. At the forbidden nearby river, they meet a madman who persuades the oldest of the boys that he is destined to be killed by one of his siblings. What happens next is an almost mythic event whose impact-both tragic and redemptive-will transcend the lives and imaginations of the book's characters and readers. Dazzling and viscerally powerful, The Fisherman is an essential novel about Africa, seen through the prism of one family's destiny.
Lusophone Africa
Author: Fernando ArenasPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 081666983X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Situates the cultures of Portuguese-speaking Africa within the postcolonial, global era.
Narrative Discourse
Author: Gérard GenettePublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801492594
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Genette uses Proust's Remembrance of Things Past as a work to identify and name the basic constituents and techniques of narrative. Genette illustrates the examples by referring to other literary works. His systemic theory of narrative deals with the structure of fiction, including fictional devices that go unnoticed and whose implications fulfill the Western narrative tradition.
Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe
Author: Natalie Zemon DavisPublisher: Walters Art Gallery
ISBN: 9780911886788
Category : Africans in art
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
"This publication accompanies the exhibition Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe, held at the Walters Art Museum from October 14, 2012, to January 21, 2013, and at the Princeton University Art Museum from February 16 to June 9, 2013."