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Author : Mukoma Wa Ngugi
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 40,96 MB
Release : 2018-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 047205368X
Engaging questions of language, identity, and reception to restore South African and diaspora writing to the African literary tradition
Author : Albert S. Gérard
Publisher : Washington, D.C. : Three Continents
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 17,1 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :
Author : Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 48,73 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0852555016
Ngugi wrote his first novels and plays in English but was determined, even before his detention without trial in 1978, to move to writing in Gikuyu.
Author : B. W. Andrzejewski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 29,92 MB
Release : 1985-11-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521256461
Although African literatures in English and French are widely known outside Africa, those in the African languages themselves have not received comparable attention. In this book a number have been selected for survey by fourteen specialist writers, providing the reader with an introduction to this very wide field and a body of reference material which includes extensive bibliographies and biographical information on African authors. Theoretical issues such as genre divisions are discussed in the essays and the historical, social and political forces at work in the creation and reception of African literature are examined. Literature is treated as an art whose medium is language, so that both the oral and written forms are encompassed. This book will be of value not only to readers concerned with the cultures of Africa but to all those with an interest in the literary phenomena of the world in general.
Author : Ruth Finnegan
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 15,9 MB
Release : 2012-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1906924708
Ruth Finnegan's Oral Literature in Africa was first published in 1970, and since then has been widely praised as one of the most important books in its field. Based on years of fieldwork, the study traces the history of storytelling across the continent of Africa. This revised edition makes Finnegan's ground-breaking research available to the next generation of scholars. It includes a new introduction, additional images and an updated bibliography, as well as its original chapters on poetry, prose, "drum language" and drama, and an overview of the social, linguistic and historical background of oral literature in Africa. This book is the first volume in the World Oral Literature Series, an ongoing collaboration between OBP and World Oral Literature Project. A free online archive of recordings and photographs that Finnegan made during her fieldwork in the late 1960s is hosted by the World Oral Literature Project (http: //www.oralliterature.org/collections/rfinnegan001.html) and can also be accessed from publisher's website.
Author : Leonard Muaka
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 26,56 MB
Release : 2018-12-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1498572286
Language in Contemporary African Cultures and Societies examines language in contemporary Africa by positioning language at the center of interrelationships between individuals, society, and culture. Because of how language permeates every aspect of human existence within each society, this book has assembled contributions by researchers and scholars who focus on different topics within African languages and cultures. By presenting African languages as resources and subject and subject of the study, this book discusses Africa’s multilingualism, language policy, preservation, and their uses in development, security, liberation, and identity formation in the diaspora. Based on empirical research and analysis of texts, this book takes a closer look at the continent and the diaspora by situating African languages, cultures, and literatures at the center, and shows how African languages are used in the liberation, transfer of knowledge, and promotion of literacy among Africans globally. It is a book that seeks to bridge the gap between the continent and the diaspora. All contributors are experienced scholars of language, literature, education and linguistics. The chapters provide a major means for examining the interplay of language, literature, and education.
Author : Edmund L. Epstein
Publisher : Africa World Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 22,9 MB
Release : 1998
Category : African literature
ISBN : 9780865435353
In this unprecedented anthology, some of the most prolific and widely read African novelists are analysed.
Author : Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 13,91 MB
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0345802543
A Washington Post Notable Book When a young man is gunned down in the streets of Nairobi, his grief-stricken father and sister bring his body back to their crumbling home in the Kenyan drylands. But the murder has stirred up memories long since buried, precipitating a series of events no one could have foreseen. As the truth unfolds, we come to learn the secrets held by this parched landscape, hidden deep within the shared past of a family and their conflicted nation. Spanning Kenya’s turbulent 1950s and 1960s, Dust is spellbinding debut from a breathtaking new voice in literature.
Author : Esther Mukewa Lisanza
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,60 MB
Release : 2019-08-16
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783030234782
This edited book examines the crucial role still played by African languages in pedagogy and literatures in the 21st century, generating insights into how they effectively serve cultural needs across the African continent and beyond. Boldly positioning African languages as key resources in the 21st century, chapters focus on themes such as language revolt by marginalized groups at grassroots level, the experience of American students learning African languages, female empowerment through the use of African languages in music, film and literary works, and immigration issues. The contributions are written by scholars of language, literature, education and linguistics, and the book will be of interest to students and scholars in these and related areas.
Author : Eldred D. Jones
Publisher :
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 15,64 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :