Indigeneity Globalization And African Literature

Author : Tanure Ojaide
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137560037
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indigeneity, Globalization, and African Literature written by Tanure Ojaide and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-10-07 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literature remains one of the few disciplines that reflect the experiences, sensibility, worldview, and living realities of its people. Contemporary African literature captures the African experience in history and politics in a multiplicity of ways. Politics itself has come to intersect and impact on most, if not all, aspects of the African reality. This relationship of literature with African people’s lives and condition forms the setting of this study. Tanure Ojaide’s Indigeneity, Globalization, and African Literature: Personally Speaking belongs with a well-established tradition of personal reflections on literature by African creative writer-critics. Ojaide’s contribution brings to the table the perspective of what is now recognized as a “second generation” writer, a poet, and a concerned citizen of Nigeria’s Niger Delta area.

Author : Sandra Dixon
Publisher : Red Sea Press, U.S.
ISBN 13 : 9781569024829
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural Dynamics of Globalization and African Literature written by Sandra Dixon and published by Red Sea Press, U.S.. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 33rd Annual Conference of the African Literature Association addressed globalization from the perspective of African and African-heritage writers. The papers selected for this anthology provide a representative overview of globalization's cultural dynamics as explored by our keynote speakers and by scholars of African literature attending the conference from around the world.

Author : Akinloye Ojo
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498534317
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Africans and Globalization written by Akinloye Ojo and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers some of the substance and dissatisfaction of globalization on Africa. It illustrates globalization as a complex set of processes that involve shifting influence from local societies and countries in some areas while simultaneously endowing local societies and countries with influence in other areas.

Author : Tanure Ojaide
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781315177700
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literature and Culture in Global Africa written by Tanure Ojaide and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engaging and interrogating the idea of a 'Global Africa', this book examines how African literary and cultural productions have changed over the years due to the social and political influences brought about by increased globalisation. Tanure Ojaide takes a variety of European theoretical concepts and applies these to African literature, oral traditions, culture, sexuality, political leadership, environmentalism, and advocacy, demonstrating the universality of the African experience. Challenging African literary artists and scholars to think creatively about the future of the culture and literature, this new collection of literary and cultural criticism from scholar-writer Tanure Ojaide is an essential read for students and scholars of African literature and culture.

Author : Olakunle George
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253029325
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Literature and Social Change written by Olakunle George and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “George rethinks the entirety of African literature by considering texts from the 19th century and mid-20th century alongside canonical texts.” —Neil ten Kortenaar, author of Debt, Law, Realism Alert to the ways in which critical theory and imaginative literature can enrich each other, African Literature and Social Change reframes the ongoing project of African literature. Concentrating on texts that are not usually considered together—writings by little-known black missionaries, so called “black whitemen,” and better-known 20th century intellectuals and creative writers—Olakunle George shows the ways in which these writings have addressed notions of ethnicity, nation, and race and how the debates need to be rehistoricized today. George presents Africa as a site of complex desires and contradictions, refashioning the way African literature is positioned within current discussions of globalism, diaspora, and postcolonialism. “A bold exploration of the complexity of different modes of writing about Africa in the context of current debates on the nature of the literary in the production of African knowledge. Concerned with a rhetoric of self-writing as it has developed over two hundred years, Olakunle George attends to local details within the larger configurations of colonial discourse in this ambitious and timely work. It is a caution against the neglect of the conditions of possibility that made an African literature possible.” —Simon Gikandi, author of Slavery and the Culture of Taste “A new and welcome addition to the field of African literary studies, Olakunle George’s African Literature and Social Change is dense where it needs to be and glories in productive close readings when its objects call for it.” —Comparative Literature Studies

Author : Maḥmūd Kutī ibn Mutawakkil Kutī Timbuktī
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781592218103
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Taʼrīkh Al Fattāsh written by Maḥmūd Kutī ibn Mutawakkil Kutī Timbuktī and published by . This book was released on 2011-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 200 years after the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade and 50 years after the emergence of the first independent African nation, creative writers and scholars gathered in Burlington, Vermont, to debate the state and global relevance of African and African diaspora writers in the 21st century. The papers that make up this volume were selected from a pool of more than 450 presented at the conference and they reflect the central tone of the debate as far as the theme of globalisation in African literature is concerned.

Author : Francis Ngaboh-Smart
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004486488
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Empire and Nation written by Francis Ngaboh-Smart and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The impact of nationalism on the emergence and development of African literature is now well documented. Globalization or the postnational state it seems to herald, the emblematic phenomenon of our era, has not received much attention. Using a cultural studies approach, Beyond Empire and Nation is a fascinating account of the process of globalization in African Literature. The book starts with an analysis of nationalist rhetoric and ideology as exemplified by works such as Things Fall Apart. Thereafter, it dedicates a chapter each to B. Kojo Laing's novels and Nuruddin Farah's Trilogy (Maps, Gifts, and Secrets) as articulations of a globalized, postnational reality. At the heart o the book is an analysis of a nuanced and complex experience of global modernity as Africans reassess the constants of nationalist discourse: culture, identity, locality, and territoriality. Ngaboh-Smart does not believe that the postnational phenomenon is necessarily detrimental to the national-state and argues that it may well be capable of generating a new form of individual agency, although he is critical of those writers who ignore the new power dynamic inherent in globalization. Moving beyond the “clash of cultures” paradigm, Ngaboh-Smart's account of the renegotiation of national identity and ideology is a significant contribution to the criticism of African literature and its link to global social processes.

Author : Tanure Ojaide
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351711199
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literature and Culture in Global Africa written by Tanure Ojaide and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engaging and interrogating the idea of a ‘Global Africa’, this book examines how African literary and cultural productions have changed over the years due to the social and political influences brought about by increased globalisation. Tanure Ojaide takes a variety of European theoretical concepts and applies these to African literature, oral traditions, culture, sexuality, political leadership, environmentalism, and advocacy, demonstrating the universality of the African experience. Challenging African literary artists and scholars to think creatively about the future of the culture and literature, this new collection of literary and cultural criticism from scholar-writer Tanure Ojaide is an essential read for students and scholars of African literature and culture.

Author : Charles Smith
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9783703668
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indigenous Heritage in African Literature written by Charles Smith and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2015-09-23 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition commits to the depths of black identities in modern black texts. The cultural reclamation of an African origin and/or roots as tied to the solemn remembrance of the Ancestor has demanded the intense attention of enlightened black writers for the social and psychic revaluation of their generation and others that follow. In this series we further examine the status of the oral performer in African traditional societies which encouraged a wide range of human expression to create identity for members of the community Africa -and we have proposed a challenge to sustain the methods of creative transmission through the continuing presence of these African performers who are living proofs of the survival of her oral traditions, especially in the propulsion of communicative action and the communicative strength of men, women and children in the community.

Author : M. Krishnan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137378336
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary African Literature in English written by M. Krishnan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-03-20 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary African Literature in English explores the contours of representation in contemporary Anglophone African literature, drawing on a wide range of authors including Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Aminatta Forna, Brian Chikwava, Ngug? wa Thiong'o, Nuruddin Farah and Chris Abani.