Africa in the world / edited by Gordon Collier ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Collier, Gordon.

Series:

Cross/cultures ; 148.

Engaging with literature of commitment ; v. 1.

Cross/cultures ; 148

Engaging with literature of commitment ; v. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African literature (English)--History and criticism.

African literature (English).

Literature and society--Africa.

Literature and society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (391 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Rodopi, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection ranges far and wide, as befits the personality and accomplishments of the dedicatee, Geoffrey V. Davis, German studies and exile literature scholar, postcolonialist (if there are ‘specialties’, then Australia, Canada, India, South Africa, Black Britain), journal and book series editor.... Themes covered include publishing in Africa, charisma in African drama, the rediscovery of apartheid-era South African literature, Truth and Reconciliation commissions, South African cinema, children’s theatre in England and Eritrea, and the Third Chimurenga in literary anthologies. Surveyed are texts from Botswana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe. Writers discussed (or interviewed: Angela Makholwa) include Ayi Kwei Armah, Seydou Badian, J.M. Coetzee, Chielo Zona Eze, Ruth First, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Bessie Head, Ian Holding, Kavevangua Kahengua, Njabulo Ndebele, Lara Foot Newton, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o/Micere Githae Mugo, Sol Plaatje, Ken Saro–Wiwa, Mongane Wally Serote, Wole Soyinka, and Ed¬gar Wallace, together with essays on the artist Sokari Douglas Camp and the filmmaker Rayda Jacobs. Because Geoff’s commitment to literature has always been ‘hands-on’, the book closes with a selection of poems and an entertaining travelogue/memoir.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Publishing in Africa: An Overview / Holger Ehling

Charisma and Leadership in African Drama / Brian Crow

The Little White Ship / Jürgen Martini

“The Fateful 13”: Sol Plaatje and the Natives’ Land Act / Elmar Lehmann

Come Back, Dennis Brutus!: Geoffrey Davis and the Rediscovery of Apartheid-Era South African Literature1 / Andrew Martin

Space, Time, Solitude: The Liberating Contradictions of Ruth First’s 117 Days / Jamie S. Scott

Njabulo Ndebele: From Rediscovering the ‘Ordinary’ to Redefining South African ‘Renaissance’ / Anne Fuchs

To Every Miracle Its Gods: Mongane Wally Serote’s Gods of Our Time as a Post-Apartheid Perception of Black Experience / Brian Worsfold

Girls with Guts: Writing a South African Thriller—Angela Makholwa in Conversation / Christine Matzke

The Politics of Hope: Engaging Lara Foot Newton’s Tshepang: The Third Testament / Marcia Blumberg

Rayda Jacobs’s Confessions of a Gambler as Post-Apartheid Cinema / John A Stotesbury

Exile and Return in Kavevangua Kahengua’s Dreams / Mbongeni Malaba

Making a ‘Home’ Elsewhere: The Letters of Bessie Head, 1963–1974 / M.J. Daymond

The Portrait of the Artist as a Younger Traveller: A Reader’s Response to Wole Soyinka’s You Must Set Forth at Dawn / James Gibbs

Putting Freedom to the Test Wole Soyinka’s You Must Set Forth at Dawn / Shirley Chew

The Lion and the Jewel on BBC Radio: An Audience Survey / Bernth Lindfors

The Politics of Myth in Ayi Kwei Armah’s Fragments / Stella Borg Barthet

Oil, Masquerades, and Memory: Sokari Douglas Camp’s Memorial of Ken Saro–Wiwa / Christiane Schlote

Ways of Transition: Truth and Reconciliation Commissions: Controversial Strategies for Dealing with Past Violence in Societies in Transition / Monika Reif–Hülser

Freedom vs. Anticolonialism in Zimbabwe: Subversions of the ‘Third Chimurenga’ Myth in African Literature / Frank Schulze–Engler

Narrative, Identity, and Social Practice in Tanzania: Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Ironic Paradise / Gareth Griffiths

Finding Children’s Voices: Using Theatre to Critique the Education System in England and Eritrea / Jane Plastow

Three poems for Geoff from around the world / Richard Martin

Les revenants / Jacques Alvarez–Péreyre

Interview with the Last Speaker / Stephen Gray

The Nature of Tragedy / Karen King–Aribisala

he made it – very much his story / Jürgen Jansen

Stock-Taking in the Guise of Some Semantic Gymnastics: A raw poem for Geoff, in honour of Hena and Anna / Peter Stummer

A Personal Dedication to Dr. Geoffrey Vernon Davis: or, a socialite gentleman scholar, cosmopolitan workaholic, connoisseur of fine books, films, wines, beers, and spirits / Hamish Walker and Michael Senior

Notes on Contributors.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-280-87542-9

9786613716736

94-012-0784-4

OCLC:

802053726

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789401207843 DOI