Reading contemporary African literature [electronic resource] : critical perspectives / ed. by Reuben Makayiko Chirambo and J.K.S. Makokha.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chirambo, Reuben Makayiko.

Makokha, J. K. S.

Series:

Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft 163.

Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, 0929-6999 ; 163

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African literature--History and criticism.

African literature.

Africa--In literature.

Africa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (427 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Reading Contemporary African Literature brings together scholarship on, critical debates about, and examples of reading African literature in all genres – poetry, fiction, and drama including popular culture. The anthology offers studies of African literature from interdisciplinary perspectives that employ sociological, historical, and ethnographic besides literary analysis of the literatures. It has assembled critical and researched essays on a range of topics, theoretical and empirical, by renowned critics and theorists of African literature that evaluate and provide examples of reading African literature that should be of interest to academics, researchers, and students of African literature, culture, and history amongst other subjects. Some of the essays examine authors that have received little or no attention to date in books on recent African literature. These essays provide new insights and scholarship that should broaden and deepen our understanding and appreciation of African literature.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Foreword / Moradewun Adejunmobi

Introduction / Reuben Makayiko Chirambo and J. K. S. Makokha

‘English Does Not Kill’: Writing Lives in the Language of the ‘Other’ / Stella Borg Barthet

A Stylistic Analysis of the Story Element in Ngugi’s A Grain of Wheat / Sarala Krishnamurthy

Mahilet: A Laboratory of Stylistic Experimentation / Tewodros Gebre

Through the Male Eyes: Gendered Styles in Contemporary Zambian Fiction / Cheela Chilala

Politics and Stylistics of Female (Re)Presentation in James Ng’ombe’s Sugarcane with Salt / Nick Mdika Tembo

Telling Lives: Myth, Metaphor and Metafiction in Zakes Mda’s Cion / Marita Wenzel

Politics and Poetics of Characterization in M. G. Vassanji’s The Book of Secrets / J. K. S. Makokha

The Invisible Twin: Visibility and Identity in Marie-Thérèse Humbert’s À l’autre bout de moi / Stephanie Cox

Thematic Design and Stylistic Patterns in Cameron Duodu’s The Gab Boys / Kofi Owusu

‘We Can Redream this World and Make the Dream Real’: The Utopian Quest in Ben Okri’s Primary Myths / Abiodun Adeniji

Orality and the Emergence of Disrupted Narrative Voices in Charles Samupindi’s Pawns / Maurice Taonezvi Vambe

‘Zimbolicious’: Shona-English Stylistics in Lyrics and Literature / Flora Veit-Wild

Repression and Beyond: Ideological Commitment and Style in Jack Mapanje’s and Steve Chimombo’s Poetry / Reuben Makayiko Chirambo

Oguaa Aban and Cape Coast Castle: Same Edifice, Different Metaphors in the Poetry of Gaddiel Acquaah and Kwadwo Opuku-Agyemang / Leonard Acquah

Self and Nature: The Cean Dialogues / Gloria M. T. Emezue

Transitions in South African Urban Poetry: The City of Johannesburg in Three Poems of the Apartheid Period / Sonja Altnöder

Verbal Fluidities and Masculine Anxieties of the Glocal Urban Imaginary in Kenyan Genge Rap / Chris Wasike

Language Use and Identity Negotiation in Cameroonian Drama / Kizitus Mpoche

Afrikaans and Afrikaner Nationalism in Deon Opperman’s Donkerland / Marisa Keuris

‘Neither Peace nor War’: The Role of Theatre in Re-Imagining the New Eritrea / Richard Boon

Contributors.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

94-012-0937-5

OCLC:

855504856

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789401209373 DOI