Hammer Blows and Other Writings
Author: David Diop
Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780253284204
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Hammer Blows
Author: David Mandessi Diop
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2024-03-01
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13: 180454342X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this English translation of Hammer Blows, the famous collection of poems by renowned writer David Diop is presented in all its brilliance and wit. First published in 1956, this powerful collection was written during the height of the Negritude movement in France. Posthumously translated into English as Hammer Blows, Diop's voice offers a passionate critique of slavery in the American South and colonialism in Africa. Edited and translated from the French by Simon Mpondo and Frank Jones. 'A vigorous use of diction that cuts like a whip, an impassioned and total commitment to the oppressed.' John F. Povey
Hammer Blows
Author: David Diop
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 72
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Author: David Diop
Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 104
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African Literature in French
Author: Dorothy S. Blair
Publisher: CUP Archive
Published: 1976-11-18
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9780521211956
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This 1976 book provides both a historical survey and a critical analysis of the literature in French from West and Equatorial Africa. Professor Blair begins by discussing the social, educational and political influences which led to the formation of the Negritude movement and to a flowering of French-African creative writing. This historical approach is then complemented by a study of the different literary genres. She traces the evolution of the first manifestations of literary activity in French by African writers, the written folk-tale, fable and short story, from the oral tradition of the indigenous culture, and the eventual appearance of the novel with a legendary or historical theme. The origins of French-African drama are considered for the first time, and the work of the minor poets analysed. Finally, Professor Blair attempts a definition of the French-African novel, and studies examples from three major periods from the 1930s onwards.
Anticolonial Form
Author: DR ALEXANDRA. REZA
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2024-06-07
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 019889631X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Raza examines key literary journals published in French, English, and Portuguese by African writers in Europe in the period of decolonization mainly between 1940 and 1970, to understand how writers understood Empire as a political and cultural structure, and what conceptions of freedom, culture, and society underpinned anti-colonial thinking.
Encyclopedia of African Literature
Author: Simon Gikandi
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-09-02
Total Pages: 886
ISBN-13: 1134582234
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The most comprehensive reference work on African literature to date, this book contains over 600 entries that cover criticism and theory, its development as a field of scholarship, and studies of established and lesser-known writers.
Postcolonial African Writers
Author: Siga Fatima Jagne
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-11-12
Total Pages: 560
ISBN-13: 1136593977
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This reference book surveys the richness of postcolonial African literature. The volume begins with an introductory essay on postcolonial criticism and African writing, then presents alphabetically arranged profiles of some 60 writers, including Chinua Achebe, Nadine Gordimer, Bessie Head, Doris Lessing, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Tahbar Ben Jelloun, among others. Each entry includes a brief biography, a discussion of major works and themes that appear in the author's writings, an overview of the critical response to the author's work, and a bibliography of primary and secondary sources. These profiles are written by expert contributors and reflect many different perspectives. The volume concludes with a selected general bibliography of the most important critical works on postcolonial African literature.
Writing Across Cultures
Author: Omar Sougou
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9789042012981
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is a timely and comprehensive study combining various critical approaches to the fiction of Buchi Emecheta, one of Africa's most illustrious and contentious women writers. Feminist (Showalter, Cixous, Kristeva) and postcolonial approaches (writing back) are taken to Emecheta's texts to illuminate the personal, political and aesthetic ramifications of the production of this "born writer." Poststructural programmes of analysis are shown to be less relevant to this writer's fiction than Marxist and Bakhtinian perspectives. Emecheta is shown to be a bridge-builder between two cultures and two worlds in narratives (both challenging and popular) characterized by ambiguity, ambivalence and double-voiced discourse, all of which evince the writer's determination to expose imaginatively the colonial heritage of centre-periphery conflicts, cultural corruption, ethnic discrimination, gender oppression, and the migrant experience in multiracial communities.
