African Legacies, African Fictions
Author: Ann Clayton
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2018-04-24
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 1928171680
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAFRICAN LEGACIES, AFRICAN FICTIONS is a collection of interviews and essays on African fiction.
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Author: Ann Clayton
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2018-04-24
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 1928171680
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAFRICAN LEGACIES, AFRICAN FICTIONS is a collection of interviews and essays on African fiction.
Author: Ogude, James
Publisher: Africa Institute of South Africa
Published: 2015-12-01
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 0798304901
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChinua Achebe's novels and essays have always drawn our attention to issues of memory, the story, history and our own obligation to history as Africans. Achebe constantly goes back to the authority of narrative - the story; and as the subsequent generations of African writers like Chimamanda Adichie keep returning to, to celebrate Africa's many stories, its moments of failure and triumph. Achebe, more than any other writer on this continent, has inspired many, and hopefully the African story tellers of the coming centuries, irrespective of their location will continue to be inspired by him. This collection of essays is an enduring tribute to this rich legacy of Achebe.
Author: Ernest Emenyo̲nu
Publisher: James Currey Publishers
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContributors to this volume ask what are the new directions of African literature? What should be the major concerns of writers, critics and teachers in the twenty-first century? What are the accomplishments and legacies? What gaps remain to be filled, and what challenges are there to be addressed by publishers and the book industry? What are the implications for pedagogy in the new technological era? ERNEST EMENYONU is Professor of the Department of Africana Studies University of Michigan-Flint. North America: Africa World Press; Nigeria: HEBN
Author: Tim Woods
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2018-09-30
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 1526130793
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfrican pasts examines African literatures in English since the end of colonialism, investigating how they represents African history through the twin matrices of memory and trauma. Inextricably tied up with the historical conditions of Africa’s colonisation, charting the emergence of its independence, and scrutinising Africa’s contemporary neo-colonial and postcolonial states as a legacy of the colonial past, African literatures are continually preoccupied with exploring modes of representation to ‘work through’ their different traumatic colonial pasts. Among other issues, this book deals with literature in the era of apartheid, the post-apartheid aftermath, metafictional experiments in African fiction, gender representation in reaction to the trauma of colonialism and ‘imprisonment narratives’. African pasts covers a wide range of African literatures and a cross-section of genres – fiction, poetry, prison-narratives, postcolonial theory – and embraces such well-known writers as Soyinka, Coetzee, Ngugi and Achebe, and more recent writers such as Nuruddin Farah, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Achmat Dangor, Etienne van Heerden, Zakes Mda, Gillian Slovo and Calixthe Beyala.
Author: Edgar Wallace
Publisher: DigiCat
Published: 2023-12-17
Total Pages: 2374
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 'The Twelve African Novels,' Edgar Wallace expertly crafts a diverse collection of stories that delve into the vibrant and complex landscapes of Africa. Each novel showcases Wallace's unique literary style, characterized by vivid imagery, sharp dialogues, and intricate plot structures. Through these narratives, readers are taken on a journey through various African societies, offering a nuanced portrayal of culture, politics, and human relationships. Set within a rich literary context of colonial and post-colonial Africa, Wallace's work stands out for its exploration of themes such as identity, power dynamics, and the impact of historical legacies on contemporary society. As an acclaimed British writer and journalist, Edgar Wallace's career spanned a wide range of genres, including detective fiction and thrillers. His keen interest in Africa and its people likely fueled his decision to compile 'The Twelve African Novels,' showcasing his deep understanding and appreciation of the continent's complexities. Wallace's careful research and attention to detail shine through in each of the carefully curated novels, making them a compelling read for anyone interested in African literature and cultural studies. I highly recommend 'The Twelve African Novels' to readers who enjoy thought-provoking narratives that provide a multi-faceted perspective on Africa. Wallace's expert storytelling and compelling characters make this collection a must-read for those looking to explore the diverse literary traditions of the continent.
Author: N. Gomia
Publisher: African Books Collective
Published: 2017-12-29
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 194287619X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe papers in this volume focus on fiction and theatre in their traditional forms as well as in their encounters with novel and innovative forms and avenues of dissemination. As a cultural practice that emerged from a process of protest and contestation of hegemony, it is understandable that one main concern in African literature and literary criticism is the resistance against the emergence of marginalizing centers in formerly or currently marginalized societies with regard to discourses, aesthetics and media of creation. These new centers that sometimes undermine the strategic/tactical exploitation of the relative advantage procured by each medium run the risk of leading to new forms of stratification that mitigate the import of African and African diasporic literatures. The collection of essays therefore seeks to analyze the representation of pertinent socio-political and historical questions in a variety of postcolonial texts from Africa and the African diasporas, notably the Caribbean islands and the United States of America. However, far from re-writing of history in a way that cedes to conservative worldviews, creative writers and critics simultaneously attempt to chart ways forward for socially all-inclusive futures. In the context of colonial and neo-colonial legacies that seem to forestall any sense of individual and collective self-fulfillment, contributors to this volume examine the pertinence of African fiction and theatre in imagining new vistas of re-conceptualizing the postcolonial condition in ways that re-galvanize the belief in an enabling future.
Author: Edgar Wallace
Publisher: DigiCat
Published: 2023-12-05
Total Pages: 2374
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis carefully crafted ebook: "African Novels: Premium Collection of ALL 12 Novels" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) was an English writer. During 1907 Edgar travelled to the Congo Free State, to report on atrocities committed against the Congolese under King Leopold II of Belgium and the Belgian rubber companies, in which up to 15 million Congolese were killed. Isabel Thorne of the Weekly Tale-Teller penny magazine, invited Wallace to serialise stories inspired by his experiences. These were published as his first collection Sanders of the River (1911), a best seller, in 1935 adapted into a film with the same name, starring Paul Robeson. Wallace went on to publish 11 more similar collections (102 stories). They were tales of exotic adventure and local tribal rites, set on an African river, mostly without love interest as this held no appeal for Wallace. His first 28 books and their film rights he sold outright, with no royalties, for quick money. Table of Contents: Sanders of the River (1911) The People of the River (1911) The River of Stars (1913) Bosambo of the River (1914) Bones (1915) The Keepers of the King's Peace (1917) Lieutenant Bones (1918) Bones in London (1921) Sandi the Kingmaker (1922) Bones of the River (1923) Sanders (1926) Again Sanders (1928)
Author: Byron Caminero-Santangelo
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 2004-12-30
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9780791462614
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInterrogates the "writing back to the center" approach to intertextuality and explores alternatives to it.
Author: Alexander Fyfe
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2022-11-03
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13: 1501379968
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe enormous success of writers such as Teju Cole and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie demonstrates that African literatures are now an international phenomenon. But the apparent global legibility of a small number of (mostly Anglophone) writers in the diaspora raises the question of how literary producers from the continent, both past and present, have situated their work in relation to the world and the kinds of material networks to which this corresponds. This collection shows how literatures from across the African continent engage with conceptualizations of 'the world' in relation to local social and political issues. Focusing on a wide variety of geographic, historical and linguistic contexts, the essays in this volume seek answers to the following questions: What are the topographies of 'the world' in different literary texts and traditions? What are that world's limits, boundaries and possibilities? How do literary modes and forms such as realism, narrative poetry or the political essay affect the presentation of worldliness? What are the material networks of circulation that allow African literatures to become world literature? African literatures, it emerges, do important theoretical work that speaks to the very core of world literary studies today.
Author: Evan M. Mwangi
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2010-07-02
Total Pages: 363
ISBN-13: 1438426976
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe profound effects of colonialism and its legacies on African cultures have led postcolonial scholars of recent African literature to characterize contemporary African novels as, first and foremost, responses to colonial domination by the West. In Africa Writes Back to Self, Evan Maina Mwangi argues instead that the novels are primarily engaged in conversation with each other, particularly over emergent gender issues such as the representation of homosexuality and the disenfranchisement of women by male-dominated governments. He covers the work of canonical novelists Nadine Gordimer, Chinua Achebe, NguÅgiÅ wa Thiong'o, and J. M. Coetzee, as well as popular writers such as Grace Ogot, David Maillu, Promise Okekwe, and Rebeka Njau. Mwangi examines the novels' self-reflexive fictional strategies and their potential to refigure the dynamics of gender and sexuality in Africa and demote the West as the reference point for cultures of the Global South.