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Author : Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 28,42 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 : Edmund L. Epstein
Publisher : Africa World Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 12,99 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 : Mukoma Wa Ngugi
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 47,98 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 : Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Publisher : East African Publishers
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 32,48 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9789966466846
Author : Eldred D. Jones
Publisher :
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 39,77 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Author : Gaurav Desai
Publisher : Modern Language Association of America
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,95 MB
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781603290371
What is the African novel, and how should it be taught? The twenty-three essays of this volume address these two questions and in the process convey a wealth of information and ideas about the diverse regions, peoples, nations, languages, and writers of the African continent. Topics include Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's favoring of indigenous languages and literary traditions over European; the special place of Marxism in African letters;the influence of Frantz Fanon; women writers and the sub-Saharan novel;the Maghrebian novel;the novel and the griot epic in the Sahel;Islam in the West African novel;novels in Spanish from Equatorial Guinea;apartheid and postapartheid fiction;African writers in the diaspora;globalization in East African fiction; teaching Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart to students in different countries;the Onitsha market romance. The volume editor, Gaurav Desai, writes, "The point of the volume is to encourage a reading of Africa that is sensitive to its history of colonization but at the same time responsive to its present multiracial and multicultural condition."
Author : Emmanuel N. Obiechina
Publisher : Washington, D.C. : Howard University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 23,66 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Author : African Literature Association. Meeting
Publisher : Africa World Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 20,92 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9780865439962
Tongue and Mother Tongue takes on two compelling challenges: the language question and the place and role of the mother tongue in African literature. This collection is the culmination of the fierce, decades-old debate on the question of African literature and its criticism. The fourteen essays range from a variety of critical and theoretical perspectives, covering the theoretical and ideological aspects of the language question, the nature of criticism, the influence of the oral tradition, critical analysis of mother tongue literature and textual analyses.
Author : Alain Ricard
Publisher :
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 27,31 MB
Release : 2004
Category : African languages
ISBN : 9780852555828
Focusing on linguistic consciousness and the place of language in the writer's consciousness, this book provides an original and comprehensive treatment of the African literary situation.
Author : Andindilile, Michael
Publisher : NISC (Pty) Ltd
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 25,22 MB
Release : 2018-11-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1920033238
Michael Andindilile in The Anglophone Literary–Linguistic Continuum: English and Indigenous Languages in African Literary Discourse interrogates Obi Wali’s (1963) prophecy that continued use of former colonial languages in the production of African literature could only lead to ‘sterility’, as African literatures can only be written in indigenous African languages. In doing so, Andindilile critically examines selected of novels of Achebe of Nigeria, Ngũgĩ of Kenya, Gordimer of South Africa and Farah of Somalia and shows that, when we pay close attention to what these authors represent about their African societies, and the way they integrate African languages, values, beliefs and cultures, we can discover what constitutes the Anglophone African literary–linguistic continuum. This continuum can be defined as variations in the literary usage of English in African literary discourse, with the language serving as the base to which writers add variations inspired by indigenous languages, beliefs, cultures and, sometimes, nation-specific experiences.