[PDF] The Cambridge History Of African And Caribbean Literature eBook

Author : Abiola Irele
Publisher :
Page : 906 pages
File Size : 11,12 MB
Release : 2004
Category : African literature
ISBN : 9780521594349

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Featuring new perspectives on African and Caribbean literature, this History explores the scope of the literature (variety of languages, regions and genres); nature of composition; and complex relationship with African social and geo-political history. It comprehensively covers the field of African literature, defined by creative expression in Africa as well as the black diaspora. This major history of African literature will be an essential resource for specialists and students.

Author : Maryemma Graham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 861 pages
File Size : 20,28 MB
Release : 2011-02-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521872170

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A major new history of the literary traditions, oral and print, of African-descended peoples in the United States.

Author : F. Abiola Irele
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 15,85 MB
Release : 2008-03-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139054638

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This magisterial history of African literature is an essential resource for specialists and students.

Author : Christopher Heywood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 11,73 MB
Release : 2004-11-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139455329

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This book is a critical study of South African literature, from colonial and pre-colonial times onwards. Christopher Heywood discusses selected poems, plays and prose works in five literary traditions: Khoisan, Nguni-Sotho, Afrikaans, English, and Indian. The discussion includes over 100 authors and selected works, including poets from Mqhayi, Marais and Campbell to Butler, Serote and Krog, theatre writers from Boniface and Black to Fugard and Mda, and fiction writers from Schreiner and Plaatje to Bessie Head and the Nobel prizewinners Gordimer and Coetzee. The literature is explored in the setting of crises leading to the formation of modern South Africa, notably the rise and fall of the Emperor Shaka's Zulu kingdom, the Colenso crisis, industrialisation, the colonial and post-colonial wars of 1899, 1914, and 1939, and the dissolution of apartheid society. In Heywood's study, South African literature emerges as among the great literatures of the modern world.

Author : Catherine Lynette Innes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 39,2 MB
Release : 1992-03-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521428972

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"Things fall Apart", is compared with Joyce Cary's "Mister Johnson". Achebe's novel is seen as a more realistic portrayal of the society and culture of indigenous people of Nigeria.

Author : David Attwell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1451 pages
File Size : 31,40 MB
Release : 2012-01-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1316175138

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South Africa's unique history has produced literatures in many languages, in both oral and written forms, reflecting the diversity in the cultural histories and experiences of its people. The Cambridge History offers a comprehensive, multi-authored history of South African literature in all eleven official languages (and more minor ones) of the country, produced by a team of over forty international experts, including contributors from all of the major regions and language groups of South Africa. It will provide a complete portrait of South Africa's literary production, organised as a chronological history from the oral traditions existing before colonial settlement, to the post-apartheid revision of the past. In a field marked by controversy, this volume is more fully representative than any existing account of South Africa's literary history. It will make a unique contribution to Commonwealth, international and postcolonial studies and serve as a definitive reference work for decades to come.

Author : Susheila Nasta
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 862 pages
File Size : 19,31 MB
Release : 2020-01-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108169007

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The Cambridge History of Black and Asian British Writing provides a comprehensive historical overview of the diverse literary traditions impacting on this field's evolution, from the eighteenth century to the present. Drawing on the expertise of over forty international experts, this book gathers innovative scholarship to look forward to new readings and perspectives, while also focusing on undervalued writers, texts, and research areas. Creating new pathways to engage with the naming of a field that has often been contested, readings of literary texts are interwoven throughout with key political, social, and material contexts. In making visible the diverse influences constituting past and contemporary British literary culture, this Cambridge History makes a unique contribution to British, Commonwealth, postcolonial, transnational, diasporic, and global literary studies, serving both as one of the first major reference works to cover four centuries of black and Asian British literary history and as a compass for future scholarship.

Author : Deirdre Osborne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 16,54 MB
Release : 2016-10-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1107139244

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"Post-World War II mass migration to Great Britain altered its demographic composition more markedly than in any other period in its history, resulting in a modern multicultural nation state shaped by the ethnic diversity of its citizenry. Populations from African, Caribbean, and South Asian locations arriving in Britain post-war brought diasporic sensibilities and literary heritages that have profoundly transformed British national culture, leading to a more complex and inclusive sense of its past. The Companion to British Black and Asian Literature (1945-2010) examines the creative impact of this rich infusion upon English literature against the backdrop of the seismic social and economic changes triggered by colonialism and migration, multiculturalism, and contemporary globalization"--