Crossing borders : interdisciplinary approaches to Africa / Anne Schrèoder (ed.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schrèoder, Anne.

Bernard W. Freeman Book Fund.

Series:

Afrikanische Studien (Mèunster, Germany)

Afrikanische Studien ; Bd. 23

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Africa--Civilization--20th century.

Africa.

Civilization.

Africa--Social conditions--1961-.

Social conditions.

Physical Description:

235 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Mèunster : Lit, 2004.

Summary:

This book presents new approaches to the African continent and its various cultures, explores different facets of African cultures as they exist or undergo changes, and illustrates how and where African and European cultures come or have come into contact, interact, and create something new. The contributors are social, cultural, and literary scientists, linguists, and artists of various cultural backgrounds who investigate African topics and use new and often inter disciplinary methods. Their joint interest provides a better understanding of the multifaceted character of the African continent, which is still often depicted as a cultural monolith, by exploring contemporary African literature, theatre, film, music and the use of linguistic methods as well as the experience of Africans in diasporas.

Contents:

Cultural manifestations of collective identity in contemporary Zimbabwean literature / Kerstin Bolzt

Writing woman writing culture : the scripting of Potent secrets / Joyce A. Abunaw

Kamerun - reliving German occupation through theatre : Zintgraff and the battle of Mankon by Bole Butake & Gilbert Doho / Bole Butake

The presence of the past for the future : Virginia Mukwesha, a modern approach to an ancient music / Virginia Mukwesha and Florian Hetze

Africa raps back : reflections on hiphop from Tanzania and South Africa / Birgit Englert

How Asterix learnt Swahili : the Tanzanian appropriation of a French comic / Jigal Beez

Notions on time in Burkina Faso / Evelyn Wladarsch

Cultural approaches to second language varieties of English : a call for new methodologies and a review of some findings on (West) African English / Hans-Georg Wolf

Deeper insights through triangulation : experiences from a sociolinguistic study on Pidgin English in Cameroon / Anne Schrèoder

Black scousers : the long presence of British Africans in Liverpool / Sebastian Berg

Not just making the faces black : the representation of African Americans in contemporary crime and detective fiction / Katrin Fischer

African popular theatre in diasporas : racism and identity / Emelda Ngufor Samba and Sebastian Berg.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Bernard W. Freeman Book Fund.

ISBN:

3825877876

9783825877873

OCLC:

56492310