Postcolonial imaginations and moral representations in African literature and culture / Chielozona Eze.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eze, Chielozona.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

African literature.

African literature--21st century--History and criticism.

Postcolonialism--Africa.

Postcolonialism.

Postcolonialism in literature.

Ethics in literature.

Africa--Intellectual life--20th century.

Africa.

Africa--Intellectual life--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (157 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Following in the footsteps of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, the tenor of the postcolonial African culture has been justifiably anti-imperialist. In the 21st century, however, there has been a gradual but certain shift away from the "write-back" discourse paradigm, towards more integrative, globally inflected cultural interpretive models in Africa. This book celebrates the emergence of new interpretive paradigms such as in African philosophy, gender studies and literature.

Contents:

Postcolonial states of injury and moral imaginations

The moral reinvention of Africa

Things fall apart and the invention of the African culture

The pitfalls of African feminism

Robert Mugabe and the symbolic power of history

Frantz Fanon and the search for new discourse paradigms

Wole Soyinka and the moral foundations of community

Literature and the task of increasing the sum total of humanity.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

979-82-16-32536-9

1-280-66634-X

9786613643278

0-7391-4508-8

OCLC:

775873197