Texts, tasks, and theories / edited by Tobias Robert Klein, Ulrike Auga & Viola Pruschenk.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Klein, Tobias Robert.

Auga, Ulrike.

Prüschenk, Viola.

Series:

Matatu ; no. 35.

Versions and subversions in African literatures ; 3.

Humboldt contributions ; v. 3.

Matatu ; no. 35

Versions and subversions in African literatures ; 3

Humboldt contributions ; v. 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African literature--History and criticism.

African literature.

Postcolonialism in literature.

Literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

African literary theory has recently gained immensely from an emerging multitude of perspectives and scholarly approaches. This volume offers a welcome opportunity to assess trends in the twenty-first century's discourse on African literature: Twelve different articles treat such lively issues as modernity, nation, civil society, postcolonial theory, and feminism, relating these both to more recent short stories, poems, and novels and to a large variety of texts that have in one way or another acquired canonical status. The first section "Language, Modernity and Modernism" explores social and a

Contents:

Texts, Tasks, and Theories; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND NOTICE; INTRODUCTION; LANGUAGE, MODERNISM, AND MODERNITY; NEW READINGS IN AFRICAN LITERATURE AND POSTCOLONIAL THEORY; AFRICAN LITERATURE AND CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY: IDENTITY, DISSIDENCE, AND CULTURAL PRACTICE; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS AND EDITORS; NOTES FOR CONTRIBUTORS

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

94-012-0564-7

1-4356-4461-1

OCLC:

714567268