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The Critical Imagination in African Literature : Essays in Honor of Michael J. C. Echeruo / edited by Maik Nwosu and Obiwu.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African literature (English)--21st century--History and criticism.
- African literature (English).
- African literature (English)--20th century--History and criticism.
- Africa--Intellectual life.
- Africa.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (306 p.)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In African studies, the "Echeruoan ideal" is understood as an intervention or intellectual engagement characterized by a broadness of vision as well as a depth of analysis. The essays gathered in this volume celebrate that ideal and honor Echeruo's contribution to the African intellectual tradition. Editors Nwosu and Obiwu explore the driving forces in the literature of Africa and the African diaspora. Contributors examine such themes as migration and exile, trauma and repression, violence and rebellion, and gender and human rights. Showcasing a rich diversity of cultural and academic backgrounds, this volume inaugurates a new paradigm for further examination of African literature as world literature and for analysis of African literature through the lens of psychoanalytic semiotics. While varied in modes of inquiry, the essays are unified in their ambition to explore new theoretical directions, reinvigorating the conversation around how African literature is read and studied.
- Contents:
- Special focus: Cultural icon: Michael J.C. Echeruo and the African academy / Obiwu
- The figuration of the Un : between African and world literature / Maik Nwosu
- In "the vortex of the expulsion" : the search for an Asian African imaginary / Rashna Singh
- Jacques Lacan in Africa : travel, Moroccan cemetery, Egyptian hieroglyphics, and other passions of theory / Obiwu
- (Re)defining the self through trauma in West African postcolonial short fiction / Bojana Coulibaly
- African postcolonial imagination and the moral challenges of our times / Chielozona Eze
- Survivalist autobiographies : the struggles of African Muslim women / Glen Bush
- Rebellion as a narrative strategy in southern African women's writing / Kanchana Ugbabe
- Rewriting human rights : gender, violence, and freedom in the fiction of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie / Heather Hewett
- Dialogism, African poetics, and contemporary Nigerian poetry in English / Sule Egya
- Confronting politics through history : a reading of the historical novels of Ayi Kwei Armah and John Edgar Wideman / Dul Johnson
- Special report: the Michael J.C. Echeruo valedictory symposium / Maik Nwosu and Obi Nwakanma.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8156-5310-7
- OCLC:
- 910274613
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