Counter discourse in African literature / Smith and Ce, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smith, editor.

C. E., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African literature.

Africa--Literary collections.

Africa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (156 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, [England] : African Library of Critical Writing, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume charts the widening frontiers of black literary aesthetics using the prose and dramatic fictions of writers from Africa and the African diaspora. The chapters come in two interactive phases of current critical discourses involving rejoinders from past-present concerns and issues of cultural and contemporary modernity. These studies stress the argument that African literature is hardly discussed outside contemporary history and that the reason for the apparent disconnection among groups in Africa and the diaspora can be traced to the disparate elements within the continent and diasp

Contents:

Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Introduction; Vocal Rejoinders; Chapter One - Utter(ing) Silences; Chapter Two - Reworking the Canon; Chapter Three - An African Antigone; Contemporary Modernity; Chapter 4 - Cultural Translation; Chapter Four - Poetics of Diaspora; Chapter Five - The Rhetoric of Despair; Chapter Six - Memory and Trauma; Chapter Seven - Ethno-lingual issues; Notes and Bibliography; Back cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 22, 2014).

ISBN:

9789783603745

9783603744

OCLC:

879948828