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How to Write About Africa
Author | : Binyavanga Wainaina |
Publsiher | : One World |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2024-06-04 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780812989663 |
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From one of Africa’s most influential and eloquent essayists, a posthumous collection that highlights his biting satire and subversive wisdom on topics from travel to cultural identity to sexuality “A fierce literary talent . . . [Wainaina] shines a light on his continent without cliché.”—The Guardian “Africa is the only continent you can love—take advantage of this. . . . Africa is to be pitied, worshipped, or dominated. Whichever angle you take, be sure to leave the strong impression that without your intervention and your important book, Africa is doomed.” Binyavanga Wainaina was a pioneering voice in African literature, an award-winning memoirist and essayist remembered as one of the greatest chroniclers of contemporary African life. This groundbreaking collection brings together, for the first time, Wainaina’s pioneering writing on the African continent, including many of his most critically acclaimed pieces, such as the viral satirical sensation “How to Write About Africa.” Working fearlessly across a range of topics—from politics to international aid, cultural heritage, and redefined sexuality—he describes the modern world with sensual, emotional, and psychological detail, giving us a full-color view of his home country and continent. These works present the portrait of a giant in African literature who left a tremendous legacy.
Writing and Africa
Author | : Mpalive-Hangson Msiska,Paul Hyland |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 421 |
Release | : 2017-07-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781315505152 |
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This volume reflects one of the new areas of English Studies as it broadens to take in non-western literatures, and places more emphasis on the contexts and broader notions of `writing'. In discussing writing from and about Africa, this collection touches on studies in black writing, colonialism and imperialism and cultural development in the third world. It begins by providing a historical introduction to the main regional traditions, and then builds on this to discuss major issues, such as oral tradition, the significance of `literature' as a western import, representations of Africa in western writing, African writing against colonialism and its themes and politics in a post-colonial world, popular writing and the representation of women.
Writing South Africa
Author | : Derek Attridge,Rosemary Jolly |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1998-01-22 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0521597684 |
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During the final years of the apartheid era and the subsequent transition to democracy, South African literary writing caught the world's attention as never before. Writers responded to the changing political situation and its daily impact on the country's inhabitants with works that recorded or satirised state-enforced racism, explored the possibilities of resistance and rebuilding, and creatively addressed the vexed question of literature's relation to politics and ethics. Writing South Africa offers a window on the literary activity of this extraordinary period that conveys its range (going well beyond a handful of world-renowned names) and its significance for anyone interested in the impact of decolonisation and democratisation on the cultural sphere. It brings together for the first time discussions by some of the most distinguished South African novelists, poets, and dramatists, with those of leading commentators based in South Africa, Britain and North America.
Women Writing Africa
Author | : Esi Sutherland-Addy,Aminata Diaw |
Publsiher | : Feminist Press |
Total Pages | : 477 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1558615008 |
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A major literary and scholarly work that transforms perceptions of West African women's history and culture.
Women Writing Africa
Author | : Amandina Lihamba |
Publsiher | : Feminist Press |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : UOM:39015070697027 |
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Third installment of major literary and scholarly project exposes East African women's history and culture.
Writing African History
Author | : John Edward Philips |
Publsiher | : University Rochester Press |
Total Pages | : 556 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1580462561 |
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A comprehensive evaluation of how to read African history. Writing African History is an essential work for anyone who wants to write, or even seriously read, African history. It will replace Daniel McCall's classic Africa in Time Perspective as the introduction to African history for the next generation and as a reference for professional historians, interested readers, and anyone who wants to understand how African history is written. Africa in Time Perspective was written in the 1960s, when African history was a new field of research. This new book reflects the development of African history since then. It opens with a comprehensive introduction by Daniel McCall, followed by a chapter by the editor explainingwhat African history is [and is not] in the context of historical theory and the development of historical narrative, the humanities, and social sciences. The first half of the book focuses on sources of historical data while thesecond half examines different perspectives on history. The editor's final chapter explains how to combine various sorts of evidence into a coherent account of African history. Writing African History will become the most important guide to African history for the 21st century. Contributors: Bala Achi, Isaac Olawale Albert, Diedre L. Badéjo, Dorothea Bedigian, Barbara M. Cooper, Henry John Drewal, Christopher Ehret, Toyin Falola, David Henige, Joseph E. Holloway, John Hunwick, S. O. Y. Keita, William G. Martin, Daniel McCall, Susan Keech McIntosh, Donatien Dibwe Dia Mwembu, Kathleen Sheldon, John Thornton, and Masao Yoshida. John Edwards Philips is professor of international society, Hirosaki University, and author of Spurious Arabic: Hausa and Colonial Nigeria [Madison, University of Wisconsin African Studies Center, 2000].
African Literature in French
Author | : Dorothy S. Blair |
Publsiher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 1976-11-18 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0521211956 |
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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.
The Writing of East and Central Africa
Author | : G. D. Killam |
Publsiher | : East African Publishers |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0435916718 |
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