Intertextuality in contemporary African literature : looking inward / Ode Ogede.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ogede, Ode.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African literature--20th century--History and criticism.

African literature.

Intertextuality.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Intellectual exchange among African creative writers is the subject of this highly innovative and wide-ranging look at several forms of intertextuality on the continent. Focusing on the issue of the availability of old canonical texts of African literature as a creative resource, this study throws light on how African authors adapt, reinterpret, and redeploy existing texts in the formulation of new ones. Contemporary African writers are taking advantage of and extending the resources available in the existing native literary tradition. But the field of inter-ethnic/trans-national African liter

Contents:

When an elephant rustles the bush-

Is a picture still worth a thousand words? from documentary to investigative realism : Cyprian Ekwensi's Jagua Nana and Flora Nwapa's One is enough

Lampoon, or the power of savage satire, and the visual object of distaste : Chinua Achebe's A man of the people and Ayi Kwei Armah's The beautyful ones are not yet born

On the politics of love : Chinua Achebe's No longer at ease and Bessie Head's Maru

Masking the infrastuctural frame : Christopher Okigbo and his acolytes (Labyrinths' aural and thematic echoes in Okinba Launko's Minted coins and Chimalum Nwankwo's The heart in the womb)

Conclusion: coming out of shadow : eye on the tradition, looking for consequence.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

979-82-16-29904-2

1-283-22453-4

9786613224538

0-7391-6448-1

OCLC:

746927070