Routledge handbook of minority discourses in African literature / edited by Tanure Ojaide and Joyce Ashuntantang.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ojaide, Tanure, 1948- editor.

Ashuntantang, Joyce, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African literature.

African literature--History and criticism.

Minorities in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 415 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2020.

Summary:

"This handbook provides a critical overview of literature dealing with groups of people or regions that suffer marginalization within Africa. The contributors examine a multiplicity of minority discourses expressed in African literature, including those who are culturally, socially, politically, religiously, economically, and sexually marginalized in literary and artistic creations. Chapters and sections of the book are structured to identify major areas of minority articulation of their condition and strategies deployed against the repression, persecution, oppression, suppression, domination, and tyranny of the majority or dominant group. Bringing together diverse perspectives to give a holistic representation of the African reality, this handbook is an important read for scholars and students of comparative and postcolonial literature and African studies."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Pat I: Background

Part II: Political and racial forms of marginalization

Part III Culture and language

Part IV Patriarchal domination, gender, sexuality, and other sociocultural "minorities"

Part V: Intranational, national, and international marginalization/conflict

Part VI: Literature and disability

Part VII Recent rends of marginalities: timely and timeless

ISBN:

1-000-05305-9

0-429-35422-3

1-000-05303-2

9780429354229

OCLC:

1153309821