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Cultural dynamics of globalization and African literature / edited by Sandra Dixon and Janice Spleth.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Annual selected papers of the ALA ; no. 18.
- Annual selected papers of the ALA
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- African literature.
- Literature and globalization--Africa.
- Literature and globalization.
- Africa.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- x, 294 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Trenton : Africa World Press, [2016]
- Language Note:
- English and French chapters.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Janice Spleth and Sandra Dixon
- I. Interview with Dennis Brutus
- Random pebbles : interview with Dennis Brutus / Chinyere Nwahunanya
- II. Slavery and colonization in a global context
- Facing up to horror : of passion, multiple complicity, and survival in Manu Herbstein's Ama : a story of the Atlantic slave trade / Senayon S. Olaoluwa
- Pauline Hopkins : rewriting the imperial adventure / Sarah H. Ficke
- Sex, power, and community in Ousmane Sembene's Vehi-Ciosane / Lifongo Vetinde
- III. Multiple dimensions of postcolonial interactions
- A. From culture conflict to the African Renaissance
- Narrative voice in Chimamanda Adichie's Purple hibiscus / Angela Fubara
- Ritual and humanism in Zakes Mda's She plays with the darkness / Thomas Spreelin Macdonald
- B. The politics of language
- Debating the language of African literature : Ethiopian contributions / J. Roger Kurtz
- Between Algeria and France : Assia Djebar's appropriations of cultural and racial thresholds in Fantasia : an Algerian cavalcade and So vast the prison / Irene Ivantcheva-Merjanska
- C. Globalization, gender, and feminisms
- Crossing borders : Black women and interracial love in Fatou Keita's Rebelle and Ken Bugul's Cendres et braises / Diahara Traore
- La litterature sentimentale en Cote d'Ivoire : une aventure / Regina Yaou
- New forms in Mariama Ba's Une si longue lettre : a postmodern feminist reading / Ada Uzoamaka Azodo
- D. Cultural hybridity and immigrant identities
- Place and non-place : spatial paradigms in contemporary francophone theater / Christophe Konkobo
- Autochthony, cultural purity, and cosmopolitan solidarity : Doreen Baingana and the virtues of uprootedness / Chielozona Eze
- Crossing frontiers with a glass of wine / Syl Cheney-Coker
- Mondialisation, culture metisse, imaginaire hybride / Tierno Monenembo
- Literature-literacy : glocally / Josefina Baez.
- Notes:
- "The papers for this volume were all delivered at the 33rd Annual Conference of the African Literature Association held in Morgantown, West Virginia"--Page ix.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1569024812
- 9781569024812
- 1569024820
- 9781569024829
- OCLC:
- 945072606
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