Download or read book African Literature in the Twentieth Century written by O. R. Dathorne and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores intellectual currents in African prose and verse from sung or chanted lines to modern writings
Download or read book African Literature in the Twentieth Century written by Oscar Ronald Dathorne and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of Twentieth century African Literatures written by Oyekan Owomoyela and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African literatures, says volume editor Oyekan Owomoyela, "testify to the great and continuing impact of the colonizing project on the African universe." African writers must struggle constantly to define for themselves and other just what "Africa" is and who they are in a continent constructed as a geographic and cultural entity largely by Europeans. This study reflects the legacy of colonialism by devoting nine of its thirteen chapters to literature in "Europhone" languages—English, French, and Portuguese. Foremost among the Anglophone writers discussed are Nigerians Amos Tutuola, Chinua Achebe, and Wole Soyinka. Writers from East Africa are also represented, as are those from South Africa. Contributors for this section include Jonathan A. Peters, Arlene A. Elder, John F. Povey, Thomas Knipp, and J. Ndukaku Amankulor. In African Francophone literature, we see both writers inspired by the French assimilationist system and those influenced by Negritude, the African-culture affirmation movement. Contributors here include Servanne Woodward, Edris Makward, and Alain Ricard. African literature in Portuguese, reflecting the nature of one of the most oppressive colonizing projects in Africa, is treated by Russell G. Hamilton. Robert Cancel discusses African-language literatures, while Oyekan Owomoyela treats the question of the language of African literatures. Carole Boyce Davies and Elaine Savory Fido focus on the special problems of African women writers, while Hans M. Zell deals with the broader issues of publishing—censorship, resources, and organization.
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Download or read book Black on Black written by John Cullen Gruesser and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black on Black provides the first comprehensive analysis of the modern African American literary response to Africa, from W.E.B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk to Alice Walker's The Color Purple. Combining cutting-edge theory, extensive historical and archival research, and close readings of individual texts, Gruesser reveals the diversity of the African American response to Countee Cullen's question, "What is Africa to Me?" John Gruesser uses the concept of Ethiopianism--the biblically inspired belief that black Americans would someday lead Africans and people of the diaspora to a bright future--to provide a framework for his study. Originating in the eighteenth century and inspiring religious and political movements throughout the 1800s, Ethiopianism dominated African American depictions of Africa in the first two decades of the twentieth century, particularly in the writings of Du Bois, Sutton Griggs, and Pauline Hopkins. Beginning with the Harlem Renaissance and continuing through the Italian invasion and occupation of Ethiopia, however, its influence on the portrayal of the continent slowly diminished. Ethiopianism's decline can first be seen in the work of writers closely associated with the New Negro Movement, including Alain Locke and Langston Hughes, and continued in the dramatic work of Shirley Graham, the novels of George Schuyler, and the poetry and prose of Melvin Tolson. The final rejection of Ethiopianism came after the dawning of the Cold War and roughly coincided with the advent of postcolonial Africa in works by authors such as Richard Wright, Lorraine Hansberry, and Alice Walker.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of African Literature written by Simon Gikandi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Rise of the African Novel written by Mukoma Wa Ngugi and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engaging questions of language, identity, and reception to restore South African and diaspora writing to the African literary tradition
Download or read book African Print Cultures written by Derek Peterson and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2016-09-29 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays collected in African Print Cultures claim African newspapers as subjects of historical and literary study. Newspapers were not only vehicles for anticolonial nationalism. They were also incubators of literary experimentation and networks by which new solidarities came into being. By focusing on the creative work that African editors and contributors did, this volume brings an infrastructure of African public culture into view. The first of four thematic sections, “African Newspaper Networks,” considers the work that newspaper editors did to relate events within their locality to happenings in far-off places. This work of correlation and juxtaposition made it possible for distant people to see themselves as fellow travellers. “Experiments with Genre” explores how newspapers nurtured the development of new literary genres, such as poetry, realist fiction, photoplays, and travel writing in African languages and in English. “Newspapers and Their Publics” looks at the ways in which African newspapers fostered the creation of new kinds of communities and served as networks for public interaction, political and otherwise. The final section, “Afterlives, ” is about the longue durée of history that newspapers helped to structure, and how, throughout the twentieth century, print allowed contributors to view their writing as material meant for posterity.
Download or read book African Literature Inthe Twentieth Century written by O. R. Dathorne and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Anthology of African Art written by N'Goné Fall and published by Distributed Art Publishers (DAP). This book was released on 2002 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term "Modern African Art" is not an abuse of language. The 20th century has seen, but not properly documented, the birth, development, and maturation of contemporary art in sub-Saharan Africa, an art which was not simply imported in the 1950s but which finds its sources both in colonial realities and in local cultures and civilizations. Anthology of African Art: The Twentieth Century does not propose to document any one African art, but rather to open up this vast but underexplored field to include a diverse theoretical, historical, geographical, and critical map of this dense and ancient region. Contributions by more than 30 international authors recount the birth of art schools in the 1930s, the development of urban design and public art, and the importance of socially-concerned art during the Independence movements. From Ethiopia, Nigeria, and the Belgian Congo to Ghana, Senegal, and Angola, through the works of hundreds of artists working in every conceivable medium and context, this anthology manages the continental and unique feat of providing a thorough, expansive, diversified, and fully illustrated history of African art in the 20th century. Since 1991, Paris-based Revue Noire Editions has dedicated itself to the multidisciplinary artistic production of the African continent and the African diaspora. Publishers of the critically-acclaimed An Anthology of African Photography, a comprehensive chronicle of African photography from the mid-1800s to the present, Revue Noire also produces a self-titled magazine devoted to contemporary African art and culture.
Download or read book African Literatures in the 20th Century written by Leonard S. Klein and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1986 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers the literatures of Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Malagasy, Malawi, Mali, Mauritia, Morocco, Mozambique, Nigeria, Reunion, Sao Tome, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Upper Volta, Zaire, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, and authors such as Mohammed Dib, Mouloud Feraoun, Kateb Yacine, Mouloud Mammeri, Jose Luandino Vieira, Mongo Beti, Ferdinand Oyono, Tawfiq al-Hakim, Taha Husayn, Yusuf Idris, Najib Mahfuz, Lenrie Peters, Ayi Kwei Armah, Kofi Awoonor, Camara Laye, Bernard Binlin Dadie, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Thomas Mofolo, Chinua Achebe, John Pepper Clark, Cyprian Ekwensi, Gabriel Okara, Christopher Okigbo, Wole Soyinka, Amos Tutuola, Birago Diop, Ousmane Sembene, Leopold Sedar Senghor, Nuruddin Farah, Peter Abrahams, Dennis Brutus, Roy Campbell, Athol Fugard, Nadine Gordimer, Alex La Guma, Sarah Gertrude Millin, Ezekiel (Es'kia) Mphalele, Alan Paton, William Plomer, Olive Schreiner, Pauline Smith, Shaaban Robert and Okot p'Bitek.
Download or read book War in African Literature Today written by Ernest Emenyo̲nu and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2008 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the second half of the twentieth century, no single phenomenon has marred the image and development of Africa more than senseless fratricidal wars which rapidly followed the political independence of nations. This issue of African Literature Today is devoted to studies of how African writers, as historical witnesses, have handled the recreation of war as a cataclysmic phenomenon in various locations on the continent. The contributors explore the subject from a variety of perspectives: panoramic, regional, national and through comparative studies. War has enriched contemporary African literature, but at what price to human lives, peace and the environment? ERNEST EMENYONU is Professor of the Department of Africana Studies University of Michigan-Flint. The contributors include: CHIMALUM NWANKWO, CHRISTINE MATZKE, CLEMENT A. OKAFOR, INIBONG I. UKO, OIKE MACHIKO, SOPHIE OGWUDE, MAURICE TAONEZVI VAMBE, ZOE NORRIDGE and ISIDORE DIALA. Nigeria: HEBN
Download or read book New Directions in African Literature written by Ernest Emenyo̲nu and published by James Currey Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributors to this volume ask what are the new directions of African literature? What should be the major concerns of writers, critics and teachers in the twenty-first century? What are the accomplishments and legacies? What gaps remain to be filled, and what challenges are there to be addressed by publishers and the book industry? What are the implications for pedagogy in the new technological era? ERNEST EMENYONU is Professor of the Department of Africana Studies University of Michigan-Flint. North America: Africa World Press; Nigeria: HEBN
Download or read book New Novels in African Literature Today written by Ernest Emenyo̲nu and published by James Currey. This book was released on 2010 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work discusses the validity of the perception that the new generation of African novelists is different in vision, style and worldview from the older generation. The 13 papers have been carefully selected to highlight the contention that the previous generation made culture-conflict their sole theme.
Download or read book A People s Voice written by Piniel V. Shava and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive attempt to analyze and synthesize a wide range of South African literature in the 20th century. Shava (English, U. of Lesotho) grapples with the conflict between literary values and political goals. Printed in the UK on acidic paper (though the endpapers are acid-free). Paper edition (unseen), $12.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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Download or read book The Life and Struggles of Our Mother Walatta Petros written by Galawdewos and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "geadl" or hagiography, originally written by Gealawdewos thirty years after the subject's death, in 1672-1673. Translated from multiple manuscripts and versions.
