African Languages, Literatures, and Postcolonial Modernity / edited by Samba Camara and Mohamed Mwamzandi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Samba Camara, editor.

Mohamed Mwamzandi, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 pages)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, [2024]

Summary:

This book offers a fresh look into the "languages of postcolonial modernity" in Africa and, to a lesser degree, its diaspora. It foregrounds the notion of postcolonial modernity in reference to modernization as experienced in the postcolony and its contemporary legacies, and investigates how African languages and literatures, both as means of communication and as instruments of cultural agency, have embodied and mediated modernity. Each chapter grapples with the literary or linguistic dimensions of postcolonial modernity as portrayed in African novels, film, poetry or popular music or as embodied in African and Afro-diasporic languages and dialects. The chapters also reveal how literature and language, respectively, document and embody discourses, phenomena, histories, ideologies, and beliefs that resulted from the legacies of colonialism.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Content

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part One

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Part Two

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Conclusion.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-5275-5900-9