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Author: Mukoma Wa Ngugi
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2018-03-27
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 047205368X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Engaging questions of language, identity, and reception to restore South African and diaspora writing to the African literary tradition
Author: Charles E. Nnolim
Publisher: African Books Collective
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9788422365
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The multitudinous nature of African literature has always been an issue but really not a problem, although its oral base has been used by expatriate critics to accuse African literature of thin plots, superficial characterisation, and narrative structures. African literature also, it is observed, is a mixed grill: it is oral; it is written in vernacular or tribal tongues; written in foreign tongues English, French, Portuguese and within the foreign language in which it is written, pidgin and creole further bend the already bent language giving African literature a further taint of linguistic impurity. African literature further suffers from the nature of its "newness" and this created problems for the critic. Because it is new, and because its critics are in simultaneous existence with its writers, we confront the problem of "instant analysis". Issues in African Literature continues the debate and tries to clarify contemporary burning issues in African literature, by focussing on particular areas where the debate has been most concerned or around which it has hovered and been persistent.
Author: Tejumola Olaniyan
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2007-07-10
Total Pages: 796
ISBN-13: 9781405112000
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is the first anthology to bring together the key texts of African literary theory and criticism. Brings together key texts that are otherwise hard to locate Covers all genres and critical schools Provides the intellectual context for understanding African literature Facilitates the future development of African literary criticism
Author: Chidi Amuta
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
Published: 2017-06-15
Total Pages: 349
ISBN-13: 1786990032
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This groundbreaking work, first published in 1989, was one of the first to challenge the conventional critical assessment of African literature, and remains highly influential today. Amuta's key argument is that African literature can be discussed only within the wider framework of the dismantling of colonial rule and Western hegemony in Africa. In exploring the possibility of a dialectical, alternative critical base, he draws upon both classical Marxist aesthetics and the theories of African culture espoused by Fanon, Cabral and Ngugi. From these explorations, Amuta derives a new language of criticism, which is then applied to works by modern African writers as diverse as Achebe, Ousmane, Agostinho Neto and Dennis Brutus. Amuta's highly original and innovative approach remains relevant not only for assessing the literature of developing countries, but for Marxist and postcolonial theories of literary criticism more generally. The author's elegance of argument and clarity of exposition makes this a distinguished and lasting contribution to debates around cultural expression in postcolonial Africa.
Author: Shola Adenekan
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 1847012388
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The first book-length study on the relationship between African literature and new media.
Author: Rand Bishop
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 1988-07-22
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From a forest of controversies and opinions by African and non-African critics and writers, Bishop has been able to elicit strong paradigms of critical and theoretical evaluation of African literature by Africans themselves, and therein lies the abiding merit of this book. Modern Fiction Studies The years immediately following World War II saw an extraordinary literary development in Black sub-Saharan Africa--the emergence of a virtually new literature. This phenomenon became the center of critical controversy as writers, commentators, and scholars attempted to forge a set of aesthetic standards for this new literature. Although the European contribution to this discussion is will known, the views of African critics, who have been writing voluminously on the subject since the 1940s, have been given far less attention. In this study, Bishop provides the first systematic examination of how Africans themselves have evaluated African literature in English and French from the early postwar years to the opening of the first World Festival of Negro Arts in 1966.
Author: Ernest Emenyo̲nu
Publisher: Africa World Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9780865436718
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Among the contributors are a new generation of young African writers whose studies include the works of a number of established and emerging African Writers about whom there is little criticism now in existence."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Adeleke Adeeko
Publisher:
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 154
ISBN-13: 9780813015620
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Provocative, original, and consistently engaging. . . . It deals with the most significant issues in African literary studies today, issues of language, ideology, and identity that are relevant around the world."--Christopher L. Miller, Yale University In one of the first studies to connect anglophone literary criticism with African localist tendencies of nativism, Ad��k� argues that nativism is a highly productive and intensely generative category in the formation of African literature and criticism. He shows the complexities of nativism (the call for authenticity and identity) both in writing and criticism and proposes that virtually all influential African criticism and writing can be discussed under any combination of three varieties of nativism: classical, structuralist, and linguistic. In the process of arguing that the nativist temperament is not alien to contemporary literary theory and that the theories do not negate the motivating spirit of nativism, Ad��k� offers a self-reflexive reading of representative oral and written, national and ethnic African literatures. He suggests a deconstructive reading of Yoruba meta-proverbs and connects the critical arts of such well-known writers as Chinua Achebe (Arrow of God), Ayi Kwei Armah (Thousand Seasons), and Ngugi wa Thiongo (Devil on the Cross) to those of other national and ethnic writers like Femi Osofisan (Kolera Kolej) and Oladejo Okediji (Rere Run). Ad�l�ke Ad��k� is assistant professor of English at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His work has appeared in Ariel, Imprimatur, and Pretexts.
Author: Chinweizu
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Howard University Press
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Georg M. Gugelberger
Publisher: Africa World Press
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780865430310
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