Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-11-12 - Publisher: Routledge
This reference book surveys the richness of postcolonial African literature. The volume begins with an introductory essay on postcolonial criticism and African writing, then presents alphabetically arranged profiles of some 60 writers, including Chinua Achebe, Nadine Gordimer, Bessie Head, Doris Lessing, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Tahbar Ben Jelloun, among others. Each entry
Authors: Isidore Okpewho, Carole Boyce Davies, Ali AlʼAmin Mazrui
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001 - Publisher: Indiana University Press
The African Diaspora contributes to the debate between those who believe that the African origin of blacks in Western society is central to their identity and outlook and those who deny that proposition. Contributors include Niyi Afolabi, Adetayo Alabi, Celia M. Azevedo, Antonio Benítez-Rojo, Eliana Guerreiro Ramos Bennett, LeGrace Benson,
Authors: Isidore Okpewho, Carole Boyce Davies, Ali AlʼAmin Mazrui
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-05-16 - Publisher: BRILL
This third volume of ASNEL Papers covers a wide range of theoretical and thematic approaches to the subject of intertextuality. Intertextual relations between oral and written versions of literature, text and performance, as well as problems emerging from media transitions, regionally instructed forms of intertextuality, and the works of individual