A prescience of African cultural studies : the future of literature in Africa is not what it was / Handel Kashope Wright.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wright, Handel Kashope, 1959-

Series:

Counterpoints (New York, N.Y.) ; v. 40.

Counterpoints ; v. 40

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African literature (English)--Study and teaching.

African literature (English).

African literature (English)--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Civilization.

Africa--Civilization--Study and teaching.

Africa.

Physical Description:

xvi, 233 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Peter Lang, 2004.

Contents:

Foreword: Hoping For Cultural Studies / Lawrence Grossberg xi

Introduction: Is Adding Talking Drums to the Orchestra Enough? (African) Literary Traditions or African Cultural Studies? 1

Chapter 1 Notes on (Re)Making Literature: Exploring the Possibility of a Utilitarian African Literature Studies 23

Chapter 2 Always Already African Cultural Studies? (Re)Examining Historical and Contemporary Issues in Cultural Studies 59

Chapter 3 The Play's the Thing Wherein We'll Find Cultural Studies at Work: African Drama as Cultural Studies? 91

Chapter 4 What's Lit Gotta Do With It? The (Potential) Contribution of Literature as Cultural Studies to African Development 127

Chapter 5 Concluding Scattered Speculations on African Cultural Studies 163.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [211]-226) and index.

ISBN:

0820434957

OCLC:

39235682