Socio-political Ideas in African Literature in English
Author | : Gideon-Cyrus M. Mutiso |
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Release | : 1984 |
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Author | : Gideon-Cyrus M. Mutiso |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1984 |
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Author | : Gideon-Cyrus Makau Mutiso |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 560 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : African literature (English) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Gideon-Cyrus Makau Mutiso |
Publisher | : MacMillan Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
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Author | : Ngugi wa Thiong'o |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 126 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0852555016 |
Ngugi wrote his first novels and plays in English but was determined, even before his detention without trial in 1978, to move to writing in Gikuyu.
Author | : Gideon-Cyrus Makau Mutiso |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : African literature (English) |
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Author | : Mukoma Wa Ngugi |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2018-03-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 047205368X |
Engaging questions of language, identity, and reception to restore South African and diaspora writing to the African literary tradition
Author | : Ernest Emenyo̲nu |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1847010970 |
This special issue focuses on literary texts by African writers in which the protagonist returns to his/her 'original' or ancestral 'home' in Africa from other parts of the world. Ideas of return - intentional and actual - have been a consistent feature of the literature of Africa and the African diaspora: from Equiano's autobiography in 1789 to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's 2013 novel 'Americanah'. African literature has represented returnees in a range of locations and dislocations including having a sense of belonging, being alienated in a country they can no longer recognize, or experiencing a multiple sense of place. Contributors, writing on literature from the 1970s to the present, examine the extent to which the original place can be reclaimed with or without renegotiations of 'home'. Articles on Nuruddin Farah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Pede Hollist, Ayi Kwei Amah, Dinaw Mengestu, Benjamin Kwakye. Interview with Tendai Huchu. Featured Articles by Bernth Lindfors, Eustace Palmer & Helen Chukwuma. Literary supplement : four poems by Tsitsi Ella Jaji .
Author | : Ngugi wa Thiong'o |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0852555415 |
This book reflects many of the concerns found in Decolonising the Mind and Moving the Centre.
Author | : Majahana John Lunga |
Publisher | : LAP Lambert Academic Publishing |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9783659310324 |
This book attempts to illustrate that Wole Soyinka, contrary to the views of his detractors, is a committed writer who is deeply and consistently preoccupied with contemporary socio-political issues. The theoretical framework underpinning this book is utilitarianism, which espouses art for society's sake, as opposed to art for art's sake. The book starts by introducing Wole Soyinka and then goes on to discuss the non-dramatic works. The rest of the chapters examine Wole Soyinka's dramatic works, in chronological order, from the early sixties, to the seventies and then the eighties. The conclusion casts a glance at Soyinka as a writer in the 21st century, and beyond.The book is written in simple, clear English, and will be a useful source of information for anyone studying African Literature in schools, colleges and universities.
Author | : Jeanne-Marie Jackson |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2021-01-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0691212406 |
An ambitious look at the African novel and its connections to African philosophy in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries The African Novel of Ideas focuses on the role of the philosophical novel and the place of philosophy more broadly in the intellectual life of the African continent, from the early twentieth century to today. Examining works from the Gold Coast, South Africa, Uganda, and Zimbabwe, and tracing how such writers as J. E. Casely Hayford, Imraan Coovadia, Tendai Huchu, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, and Stanlake Samkange reconcile deep contemplation with their social situations, Jeanne-Marie Jackson offers a new way of reading and understanding African literature. Jackson begins with Fante anticolonial worldliness in prenationalist Ghana, moves through efforts to systematize Shona philosophy in 1970s Zimbabwe, looks at the Ugandan novel Kintu as a treatise on pluralistic rationality, and arrives at the treatment of “philosophical suicide” by current southern African writers. As Jackson charts philosophy's evolution from a dominant to marginal presence in African literary discourse across the past hundred years, she assesses the push and pull of subjective experience and abstract thought. The first major transnational exploration of African literature in conversation with philosophy, The African Novel of Ideas redefines the place of the African experience within literary history.