Author: Ce, Chin
Publisher: Handel Books
Published: 2014-04-03
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9783708554
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Dark Edge of African literature proposes arguments and theories for interpretation or exposition of Africa's modern fictions irrespective of the language of narrative. It attempts to discern how such interpretation of contemporary history may be received from an African perspective and what the implications are for African cultures and literatures abound by such experience. Starting with a writers profile of twentieth century African dictatorships and the African writer critical approaches on Somali, Nigerian, Kenyan, Angolan, Sudanese literatures present many different, if often not recognised, materials on uprising and resistance to readers of African literature. The physical and psychological dislocation by war, the controversy about the relational quality and dependent nature of text on context, and the exigency that informs the deliberate distortions of certain figures and images by contemporary African writers are some of the issues covered in this volume.
Author: Julius E. Thompson
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2005-02-15
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780786422647
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 1965 Dudley F. Randall founded the Broadside Press, a company devoted to publishing, distributing and promoting the works of black poets and writers. In so doing, he became a major player in the civil rights movement. Hundreds of black writers were given an outlet for their work and for their calls for equality and black identity. Though Broadside was established on a minimal budget, Randall's unique skills made the press successful. He was trained as a librarian and had spent decades studying and writing poetry; most importantly, Randall was totally committed to the advancement of black literature. The famous and relatively unknown sought out Broadside, including such writers as Gwendolyn Brooks, Margaret Walker, Mae Jackson, Lance Jeffers, Etheridge Knight, Sonia Sanchez, Nikki Giovanni, Audre Lorde and Sterling D. Plumpp. His story is one of battling to promote black identity and equality through literature, and thus lifting the cultural lives of all Americans.
Author: Allison Butler Herrick
Publisher:
Published: 1969
Total Pages: 480
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →General study of Uganda - covers historical and geographical aspects, demographic aspects and social structures, cultural factors, tradition, religion, the government structure, political leadership, foreign policy, mass media, the economic structure, labour administration, national level defence, the armed forces, etc. Bibliography pp. 399 to 430, maps and statistical tables.
Author: O. R. Dathorne
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 0816607699
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Explores intellectual currents in African prose and verse from sung or chanted lines to modern writings
Author: Gerald Moore
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2024-04-01
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 1040021484
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Originally published in 1980, this book introduces the student to twelve of the most exciting and significant African authors of the 20th Century, whose work represents Anglophone and Francophone writing (with translation) drawn from West, East and Southern Africa. Twelve African Writers was a revised, updated and extended edition of the pioneering Seven African Writers which did so much to make students aware of African literature. The book also contains an extensive bibliography of the works not just of the selected writers, but other important African authors and recommendations of further critical works.
Author: Jeffrey Aaron Snyder
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 0820351830
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Making Black History focuses on the engine behind the early black history movement in the Jim Crow era, Carter G. Woodson and his Association for the Study of Negro Life and History"--
Author: Library of Congress. African Section
Publisher:
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 778
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Ellen Block
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2019-05-17
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 1978804768
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →AIDS has devastated communities across southern Africa. In Lesotho, where a quarter of adults are infected, the wide-ranging implications of the disease have been felt in every family, disrupting key aspects of social life. In Infected Kin, Ellen Block and Will McGrath argue that AIDS is fundamentally a kinship disease, examining the ways it transcends infected individuals and seeps into kin relations and networks of care. While much AIDS scholarship has turned away from the difficult daily realities of those affected by the disease, Infected Kin uses both ethnographic scholarship and creative nonfiction to bring to life the joys and struggles of the Basotho people at the heart of the AIDS pandemic. The result is a book accessible to wide readership, yet built upon scholarship and theoretical contributions that ensure Infected Kin will remain relevant to anyone interested in anthropology, kinship, global health, and care. Supplementary instructor resources (https://www.csbsju.edu/sociology/faculty/anthropology-teaching-resources/infected-kin-teaching-resources)