Emerging Perspectives on Ama Ata Aidoo
Emerging Perspectives on Ama Ata Aidoo

Author: Ada Uzoamaka Azodo

Publisher: Africa Research and Publications

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 544

ISBN-13:

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This ambitious and comprehensive volume of essays, edited by two committed scholars, mirrors a collection of insights, analyses and approaches to the works by Ghana's foremost woman writer, who has prevailed for over thirty years on the African literature scene by her sheer tenacity of purpose and the freshness of her writing. Ama Ata Aidoo comes across as a sturdy, well-rounded, dignified and reputable writer of world class, not only in the originality, complexity and sophistication of her thoughts, but also in the diversity of the possibilities in her writing. Students of cultural politics, international relations, womens' studies, history and African studies will find this anthology a compelling resource.

Emerging Perspectives on Ama Ata Aidoo
Emerging Perspectives on Ama Ata Aidoo

Author: Ada Uzoamaka Azodo

Publisher: Africa Research and Publications

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 538

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Includes interviews, essays and three sections of critical writings on her work. Contributions cover virtually all literary genres and critical forms in which the author has worked, establishing conclusively her versatility as a serious writer of world renown.

Emerging Perspectives on Chinua Achebe
Emerging Perspectives on Chinua Achebe

Author: Ernest Emenyo̲nu

Publisher: Africa World Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 488

ISBN-13: 9780865438781

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Chinua Achebe's influence on contemporary African literature is as much in evidence in his art of the novel as his theory of African literature and literary criticism. ISINKA (Igbo term for artistic purpose') establishes Achebe's legacy as a literary theorist and critic. In these essays scholars from around the globe assess and establish how much Achebe's extra-fictional ideas about African literature and literature in general are justified in his own creative works.'

Emerging Perspectives on Dambudzo Marechera
Emerging Perspectives on Dambudzo Marechera

Author: A. J. Chennells

Publisher: Africa World Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9780865436459

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Regarded by some as mad and by others as a genius, Zimbabwean writer Dambudzo Marechera is today, ten years after his death, considered to be one of the most innovative writers that Africa has produced. This new book is a collection of critical essays devoted entirely to Marechera's work and includes contributions from academics in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Italy, Nigeria, Germany and the United Kingdom who show the complexity and variety of responses that Marechera's writing evokes.

Emerging Perspectives on Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo
Emerging Perspectives on Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo

Author: Rose A. Sackeyfio

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2017-11-08

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 1498559336

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Emerging Perspectives on Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo is a collection of 15 critical essays that highlights the literary contributions of Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo as one of Nigeria’s leading female writers. The book includes a literary biography, professional profile, and an interview with professor Adimora-Ezeigbo that offers valuable insight into her life and works. Contributing scholars provide critical and theoretical perspectives on Adimora-Ezeigbo’s ouvre that represents a postcolonial lens to interpret the African world. Emerging Perspectives contextualizes Adimora-Ezeigbo’s works of fiction, poetry, and drama within African, Nigerian, and Women’s literary tradition. This collection builds upon critical and theoretical scholarship on leading African writers whose works comprise a dynamic and compelling genre of African writing that spans the post-independence era into the 21st century. The essays examine themes from Adimora-Ezeigbo’s writing such as patriarchy, feminism, war, cultural traditions, and contemporary issues in Nigerian society such as trafficking, and many of the social, economic, and political challenges to Nigeria’s development as a modern nation state.

New Perspectives in Diasporic Experience
New Perspectives in Diasporic Experience

Author: Connie Rapoo

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2019-01-04

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 1848882912

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This edited volume discusses the discourse, experience and representation of Diaspora from a variety of cultural and disciplinary perspectives and offers new and original insight into contemporary notions of Diaspora.

Postcolonial Plays
Postcolonial Plays

Author: Helen Gilbert

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-09-13

Total Pages: 488

ISBN-13: 1136218246

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This collection of contemporary postcolonial plays demonstrates the extraordinary vitality of a body of work that is currently influencing the shape of contemporary world theatre. This anthology encompasses both internationally admired 'classics' and previously unpublished texts, all dealing with imperialism and its aftermath. It includes work from Canada, the Carribean, South and West Africa, Southeast Asia, India, New Zealand and Australia. A general introduction outlines major themes in postcolonial plays. Introductions to individual plays include information on authors as well as overviews of cultural contexts, major ideas and performance history. Dramaturgical techniques in the plays draw on Western theatre as well as local performance traditions and include agit-prop dialogue, musical routines, storytelling, ritual incantation, epic narration, dance, multimedia presentation and puppetry. The plays dramatize diverse issues, such as: *globalization * political corruption * race and class relations *slavery *gender and sexuality *media representation *nationalism