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African Realism
Author | : Errol A. Henderson |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2015-03-19 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781442239517 |
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African Realism explains Africa’s international conflicts of the post-colonial era through international relations theory. It looks at the relationship between Africa’s domestic and international conflicts, as well as the impact of factors such as domestic legitimacy, trade, and regional economic institutions on African wars. Further, it examines the relevance of traditional realist assumptions (e.g. balance of power, the security dilemma) to African international wars and how these factors are modified by the exigencies of Africa’s domestic institutions, such as neopatrimonialism and inverted legitimacy. This study also addresses the inconsistencies and inaccuracies of international relations theory as it engages African international relations, and especially, its military history
British Colonial Realism in Africa
Author | : Deborah Shapple Spillman |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2012-05-04 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780230378018 |
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What role do objects play in realist narratives as they move between societies and their different systems of value as commodities, as charms, as gifts, as trophies, or as curses? This book explores how the struggle to represent objects in British colonial realism corresponded with historical struggles over the material world and its significance.
Political Development and the New Realism in Sub Saharan Africa
Author | : David Ernest Apter,Carl Gustav Rosberg |
Publsiher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0813914795 |
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Since the 1950s David Apter and Carl Rosenberg have been among the leading American scholars in African Studies. In this volume they, along with other major specialists in the field, explore the new configurations of African politics. With tentative efforts at a revival of democracy now taking place, it seems appropriate to reasses the theoretical debates ad empirical themes that have characterized postwar Sub-Saharan African politics. Focusing on "new realism" that has emerged among Africanists since the dismantling of colonial rule, the essays are presented as a corrective both to the initial euphoria informing African studies and to the later tendency to place blame for all Africa's political and economic difficulties on the receding specter of colonial oppression.
Magical Realism in West African Fiction
Author | : Brenda Cooper |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2012-10-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781134673780 |
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This study contextualizes magical realism within current debates and theories of postcoloniality and examines the fiction of three of its West African pioneers: Syl Cheney-Coker of Sierra Leone, Ben Okri of Nigeria and Kojo Laing of Ghana. Brenda Cooper explores the distinct elements of the genre in a West African context, and in relation to: * a range of global expressions of magical realism, from the work of Gabriel Garcia Marquez to that of Salman Rushdie * wider contemporary trends in African writing, with particular attention to how the realism of authors such as Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka has been connected with nationalist agendas. This is a fascinating and important work for all those working on African literature, magical realism, or postcoloniality.
Landscapes of Realism
Author | : Dirk Göttsche,Rosa Mucignat,Robert Weninger |
Publsiher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 834 |
Release | : 2021-04-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9789027260369 |
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Few literary phenomena are as elusive and yet as persistent as realism. While it responds to the perennial impulse to use literature to reflect on experience, it also designates a specific set of literary and artistic practices that emerged in response to Western modernity. Landscapes of Realism is a two-volume collaborative interdisciplinary exploration of this vast territory, bringing together leading-edge new criticism on the realist paradigms that were first articulated in nineteenth-century Europe but have since gone on globally to transform the literary landscape. Tracing the manifold ways in which these paradigms are developed, discussed and contested across time, space, cultures and media, this first volume tackles in its five core essays and twenty-five case studies such questions as why realism emerged when it did, why and how it developed such a transformative dynamic across languages, to what extent realist poetics remain central to art and popular culture after 1900, and how generally to reassess realism from a twenty-first-century comparative perspective.
Rethinking Social Realism
Author | : Stacy I. Morgan |
Publsiher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0820325791 |
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The social realist movement, with its focus on proletarian themes and its strong ties to New Deal programs and leftist politics, has long been considered a depression-era phenomenon that ended with the start of World War II. This study explores how and why African American writers and visual artists sustained an engagement with the themes and aesthetics of social realism into the early cold war-era--far longer than a majority of their white counterparts. Stacy I. Morgan recalls the social realist atmosphere in which certain African American artists and writers were immersed and shows how black social realism served alternately to question the existing order, instill race pride, and build interracial, working-class coalitions. Morgan discusses, among others, such figures as Charles White, John Wilson, Frank Marshall Davis, Willard Motley, Langston Hughes, Sterling Brown, Elizabeth Catlett, and Hale Woodruff.
African fiction and its social context A critical analysis of social realism in Festus Iyayi s works
Author | : Abdullahi Haruna |
Publsiher | : GRIN Verlag |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2019-06-26 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9783668966741 |
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Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2014 in the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: A, University of Nigeria (University of Maiduguri-Nigeria), course: ENG 899: Thesis, language: English, abstract: This thesis examines Iyayi’s use of social realism in fiction with the aim to locate his work in the realm of African literature. The concept of social realism and its exponents will be identified and discussed, and its tenets will be applied in the assessment of Iyayi’s works. Iyayi’s novels and a collection of short stories are analysed with a focus on locating Iyayi’s works in the continuum of African literature through an identification of similar authors and their works. Festus Iyayi is comparatively young in the literary circle, compared to names like Achebe, Ngugi, Mwangi, Ousmane and Armah. While some scholars and critics like Amuta (1986) and Ogundipe-Leslie (1994) describe Iyayi’s works as accomplished works of social realism, Acholonu (1987), on the other hand, does not categorize his works this way.
Challenging Realities Magic Realism in Contemporary American Women s Fiction
Author | : M. Ruth Noriega Sánchez |
Publsiher | : Universitat de València |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 2011-11-28 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9788437085364 |
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Les arrels del realisme màgic en els escrits de Borges i altres autors d'Amèrica Llatina han estat àmpliament reconeguts i ben documentades produint una sèrie d'estudis crítics, molts dels quals figuren en la bibliografia d'aquest treball. Dins d'aquest marc, aquest llibre presenta als lectors una varietat d'escriptores de grups ètnics, conegudes i menys conegudes, i les col·loca en un context literari en el que es tracten tant a nivell individual com a escriptores així com a nivell col·lectiu com a part d'un moviment artístic més ampli. Aquest llibre és el resultat del treball realitzat a les universitats de Sheffield i la de València i representa una valuosa investigació i una important contribució als estudis literaris.