Download or read book Afrique written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Francophone African Narratives and the Anglo American Book Market written by Vivan Steemers and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, the material circumstances governing the production of African literature have been analyzed from a variety of angles. This study goes one step further by charting the trajectories of a corpus of francophone African (sub-Saharan) narratives subsequently translated into English. It examines the role of various institutional agents and agencies—publishers, preface writers, critics, translators, and literary award committees—involved in the value-making process that accrues visibility to these texts that eventually reach the Anglo-American book market. The author evinces that over time different types of publishers dominated, both within the original publishing space as in the foreign literary field, contingent on their specific mission—be it commercial, ideological or educational—as well as on socioeconomic and political circumstances. The study addresses the influence of the editorial paratextual framing—pandering to specific Western readerships—the potential interventionist function of the translator, and the consecrating mechanisms of literary and translation awards affecting both gender and minority representation. Drawing on the work by key sociologists and translation theorists, the author uses an innovative interdisciplinary methodology to analyze the corpus narratives.

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Download or read book The Contemporary Francophone African Intellectual written by Natalie Edwards and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2013-07-29 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Contemporary Francophone African Intellectual examines the issues with which the contemporary African intellectual engages, the fields s/he occupies, her/his residence and perspective, and her/his relations with the State and the people. In an increasingly economically deprived Africa, in which some states are ruled by dictators, what chances do people have of becoming intellectuals, using their critical faculties to challenge hegemony, enacting the transformative power of ideas in a public forum? Do intellectuals who remain in Africa run the risk of being swallowed into a vortex of hagiography? What is the responsibility of the intellectual in the face of an event such as the Rwandan genocide? What influence does religion have upon the contemporary intellectual’s work? Is migration one of the only paths available for African intellectuals, a number of whom have been critiquing their continent from within Europe? This volume focuses on the intellectual’s engagement across literature, philosophy, journalism and cultural criticism. It contains studies of established writers and philosophers as well as new voices. An African writer and public intellectual describes her own experience in and out of Africa in one chapter; a Philosophy Professor discusses his intellectual trajectory in another. Overall, this timely volume, which includes analysis of the work of intellectuals from North, East, West and Central Africa, problematizes our current understandings of the intellectual legacy of Africa and opens up new avenues into this understudied area.

Download or read book Hospitality and Hostility in the Multilingual Global Village written by Kathleen Thorpe and published by AFRICAN SUN MeDIA. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This interdisciplinary, international, and multi-lingual collection of essays explores a broad range of issues related to hospitality and hostility, in literary and cultural contexts from antiquity to the present. Insightful theoretical and historical discussions undergird richly detailed particular studies. The central focus unifies the diverse pieces, which are original, well-researched and reasoned, and clearly written. A solid contribution to scholarship in several fields (including linguistics, anthropology and Internet culture), the volume is also enjoyable to read. Its lively and appealing pieces on recent novels and contemporary trends lend a fresh and contemporary feel." -ÿProf. Pamela S. Saur, Lamar University, Texas

Download or read book Memory as Colonial Capital written by Erica L. Johnson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-17 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the ways that writers from the Caribbean, Africa, and the U.S. theorize and employ postcolonial memory in ways that expose or challenge colonial narratives of the past, and shows how memory assumes particular forms and values in post/colonial contexts in twenty and twenty-first-century works. The problem of contested memory and colonial history continues to be an urgent and timely issue, as colonial history has served to crush, erase and manipulate collective and individual memories. Indeed, the most powerful mechanism of colonial discourse is that which alters and silences local histories and even individuals’ memories in service to colonial authority. Johnson and Brezault work to contextualize the politics of writing memory in the shadow of colonial history, creating a collection that pioneers a postcolonial turn in cultural memory studies suitable for scholars interested in cultural memory, postcolonial, Francophone and ethnic studies. Includes a foreword by Marianne Hirsch.

Download or read book Autobiography as a Writing Strategy in Postcolonial Literature written by Benaouda Lebdai and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-05 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autobiography, a fully-recognised genre within mainstream literature today, has evolved massively in the last few decades, particularly through colonial and postcolonial texts. By using autobiography as a means of expression, many postcolonial writers were able to describe their experiences in the face of the denial of personal expression for centuries. This book is centred around the recounting and analysis of such a phenomenon. Literary purists often reject autobiography as a fully-fledged literary genre, perceiving it rather as a mere life report or a descriptive diary. The colonial and postcolonial autobiographical texts analysed in this book refute such perceptions, and demonstrate a subtle combination of literary qualities and the recounting of real-life experiences. This book demonstrates that colonial and postcolonial autobiographical texts have established their ‘literarity’. The need for postcolonial authors to express themselves through the ‘I’ and the ‘me’, as subjects and not as objects, is the essence of this book, and confirms that self-affirmation through autobiographical writing is indeed an art form.

Download or read book A Bibliography for the Study of French Literature and Culture Since 1885 written by Sheri Dion and published by Susquehanna University Press. This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Women Taking Risks in Contemporary Autobiographical Narratives written by Kenneth Reeds and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2013-10-03 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women Taking Risks in Contemporary Autobiographical Narratives explores the nature and effects of risk in self-narrative representations of life events, and is an early step towards confronting the dearth of analysis on this subject. The collection focuses on risk-taking as one of women’s articulations of authorial agency displayed in literary, testimonial, photographic, travel and film documentary forms of autobiographical expression in French. Among many themes, the book fosters discussion on matters of courage, strength, resilience, freedom, self-fulfillment, political engagement, compassion, faith, and the envisioning of unconventional alliances that follow a woman’s stepping out of her comfort zone. The fourteen essays included in this collection discuss works of women authors from North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, France and the Caribbean. They exemplify a variety of self-narratives that blur unified conceptualizations of both identity and national belonging. They address questions about women writers’ attitudes towards risk and their willingness to change the status quo. They also explore the many personal and public forms in which agency manifests through risk-taking engagements; the ways in which women challenge the conventional wisdom about feminine reserve and aversion to danger; the multiplicity of seen and unforeseen consequences of risk taking; the all-too-frequent lack of recognition of female courage; the overcoming of obstacles by taking risks; and, frequently, the amelioration of women’s lives. Addressing both the broader context of the study of risk and the more specific areas of female expression and autobiography in Francophone cultures, this collection is attractive to a diverse audience with the potential to cross disciplines and inform a wide body of research. A number of the essays deal with issues born in postcolonial circumstances. This examination of the elucidation of marginalized voices should prove enlightening to an array of scholars researching specific ethnic, sexual, gender, and general subjects related to identity. In making inroads towards expanding the well-developed area of risk studies into the humanities, this collection makes an important contribution that has the potential to promote a variety of cross-disciplinary research including examinations of the psychology and sociology behind chauvinism, personal expression, and formative experiences.

Download or read book The Bibliography of Africa written by James Douglas Pearson and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1970. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Download or read book African Literature written by Jonathan P. Smithe and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African literature, like the continent itself is enormous and diverse. East Africa's literature is different from West Africa's which is quite different from South Africa's which has different influences on it than North Africa's. Africa's literature is based on a widespread heritage of oral literature, some of which has now been recorded. Arabic influence can be detected as well as European, especially French and English. Legends, myths, proverbs, riddles and folktales form the mother load of the oral literature. This book presents an overview of African literature as well as a comprehensive bibliography, primarily of English language sources. Accessed by subject, author and title indexes.

Download or read book Rwanda Since 1994 written by Hannah Grayson and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-17 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past 25 years, Rwanda has undergone remarkable shifts and transitions: culturally, economically, and educationally the country has gone from strength to strength. While much scholarship has understandably been retrospective, seeking to understand, document and commemorate the Genocide against the Tutsi, this volume gathers diverse perspectives on the changing social and cultural fabric of Rwanda since 1994.

Download or read book Ecrivains africains entretiens written by Kangni Alem and published by . This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ecrivains Africains (Anglophones et francophones) Paroles Cet ouvrage est un tableau exceptionnel représentant un vaste continent, l'Afrique, qui se crée et s'invente quotidiennement sans faire de bruit, à huis clos pour ainsi dire. Et ce, au milieu d'un monde tumultueux, dont la vitesse de transformation a de quoi donner le tournis. Ces auteurs n'écrivent pas l'univers des autres, mais le leur, qui est mal parti d'après certains analystes qui ne se fondent que sur des a priori et des concepts hérités de l'histoire. Et pourtant, lire ces Paroles patiemment recueillies par Benaouda Lebdaï donne une nette intuition de l'extrême vitalité d'un continent qui a compris d'où il vient et, parmi de multiples options qui s'offrent à son avenir, celles qui sont taillés pour lui. Mais on peut craindre, cependant, que ces penseurs soient en avance sur leur temps, sachant que leurs œuvres restent hors de portée de l'immense majorité des leurs, qui ne lisent pas, à cause de l'analphabétisme ou parce que leur pouvoir d'achat est beaucoup plus faible que le prix du livre. Mais une chose reste certaine : quand la majorité des Africains pourront lire leurs auteurs, on pourra enfin affirmer, sans risque d'erreur, que l'Afrique est bien partie.

Download or read book D sir d Afrique written by Boniface Mongo-Mboussa and published by Editions Gallimard. This book was released on 2020-01-03T00:00:00+01:00 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Cette littérature a commencé avec la négritude. Des idéologues de chez eux (les Occidentaux), pour justifier l'esclavage et la colonisation, avaient décrété que le nègre n'avait pas d'histoire parce que son histoire n'était pas écrite. Il s'est trouvé des Africains de chez nous pour le désir d'Afrique, qui se sont armés de la plume. Ils ont démontré que l'Afrique, le premier continent de l'humanité, avait - écrites ou non écrites - de multiples traces de son passé multimillénaire. Ils (les idéologues de chez eux) avaient arrêté que nous étions sans culture. On leur a répondu que les Africains de la plus longue histoire de l'humanité avaient la culture la plus riche de l'univers.' Ahmadou Kourouma.

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