New novels in African literature today : a review / editor, Ernest N. Emenyonu [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Emenyo̲nu, Ernest, 1939- editor.

Series:

African literature today ; ALT 27.

African literature today ; ALT 27

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African literature (English)--20th century--History and criticism.

African literature (English).

African literature (English)--21st century--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 173 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is a seminal work that discusses the validity of the perception that the new generation of African novelists is remarkably different in vision, style, and worldview from the older generation. The contention is that the older generation novelists who were too close to the colonial period in Africa had invariably made culture-conflict and little else their dominant thematic concern while the younger generation novelists are more versatile in their thematic preoccupations, and are more global in their vision and style. Do the facts in the novels justify and validate these claims? The 13 papers in this volume have been carefully selected to consider these issues. Brenda Cooper a renowned literary scholar from Cape Town writes on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's 'Purple Hibiscus', while Charles Nnolim writes about Adichie's more recent novel 'Half of a Yellow Sun'; Omar Sougou of Universite Gaston Berger, Senegal discusses 'ambivalent inscriptions' in Buchi Emecheta's later novels; Clement Okafor of the University of Maryland, addresses the theme of 'racial memory' in Isidore Okpewho's 'Call Me By My Rightful Name', juxtaposed between the world of the old and the realities of the present. Joseph McLaren, Hofstra University, New York, discusses Ngugi's latest novel, 'Wizard of the Crow', while Machiko Oike, Hiroshima University, Japan looks at a new theme in African adolescent literature, 'youth in an era of HIV/AIDS'. There is abundant evidence of the contrasts and diversities which characterize the African novel not only geographically, but also ideologically and generationally. ERNEST EMENYONU is Professor of the Department of Africana Studies University of Michigan-Flint. Nigeria: HEBN.

Contents:

Resurgent spirits, Catholic echoes of Igbo & petals of purple : the syncretised world of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple hibiscus / Brenda Cooper

Ambivalent inscriptions : women, youth & diasporic identity in Buchi Emecheta's later fiction / Omar Sougou

The interrupted dance : racial memory in Isidore Okpewho's Call me by my rightful name / Clement Abiaziem Okafor

The Ivorian crisis & Ahmadou Kourouma's posthumous political novel Quand on refuse on dit non / Sery Bailly

Ngugi's Wizard of the crow : women as the voice of the people & the Western audience / Joseph McLaren

The Ankh & Maat : symbols of successful revolution in Ayi Kwei Armah's Osiris rising / Sophie Akhuemokhan

A new African youth novel in the era of HIV, AIDS : an analysis of Unity Dow's Far & beyon' / Machiko Oike

The prison of Nigerian women : female complicity in Sefi Atta's Everything good will come / Florence Orabueze

Manufacturing skin for Somala's history : Nuruddin Farah's deep hurt in Links / Tej N. Dhar

A Zimbabwean ethic of humanity : Tsitsi Dangarrembga's The book of Not & the Unhu philosophy of personhood / Ada Uzoamaka Azodo

Coming to America : Ike Oguine's A squatter's tale & the Nigerian-African immigrant's narrative / Christopher Okonkwo

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a yellow sun / Charles Nnolim.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-98845-X

9786612988455

1-84615-689-0

OCLC:

705538863