Meditations on African Literature

Name: Meditations on African Literature
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ISBN: 9780313298660

ISBN-10: 0313298661

ISBN-13: 9780313298660

Edition: 2001

Authors: Dubem Okafor

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While African literature is presently enjoying much attention from the scholarly community, its heritage and identity are becoming less clearly defined. While Africa has a rich oral tradition, African writers find themselves writing in the languages of their colonial oppressors. So too, many of the best African writers now live outside Africa, particularly in North America. Much of the criticism of African literature is written by American professors, African writers sometimes teach their literature at American universities, and American publishers issue African literary works. At the same time, the political climate of many African countries has been detrimental to literacy and writing.…

Book details

List price: $95.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 2/28/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.62" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English



Preface




The Cacophonous Terrain of Nigerian/African Literature




Language, Theory, and Modern African Literature: Some More Questions




On the Concept: "Commonwealth Literature"




Who Counts? De-Ciphering the Canon




Five Nigerian Novels and Public Morality




Things Fall Apart: Problems in Constructing an Alternative Ethnography




Historicity and the Un-Eve-ing of the African Woman: Achebe's Novels




"Over-Determined Contradictions": History and Ideology in Achebe's A Man of the People




The True Fantasies of Grace Ogot, Storyteller




The Anglo-African, the "Woman Question," and Imperial Discourse




Impersonation in Some African Ritual and Festival Performances




Exile and Home: Africa in Caribbean Theater




One Year in the First Instance



Select Bibliography


Index


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