African Cultures and Literatures

A Miscellany
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-90-420-3647-5
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 41, 550 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 1052 g

Reihe: Matatu

Besides searching book reviews, an interview with the writer Tijan M. Sallah, a full report on the 6th Ethiopian International Film Festival, and a stimulating selection of creative writing (including a showcase of recent South African poetry), this issue of Matatu offers general essays on African women’s poetry, anglophone Cameroonian literature, and Zimbabwean fiction of the Gukurahundi period, along with studies of J.M. Coetzee, Kalpana Lalji, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Aminata Sow Fall, Wole Soyinka, and Yvonne Vera.
The bulk of this issue, however, is given over to coverage of cultural and sociological topics from North Africa to the Cape, ranging from cultural identity in contemporary North Africa, two contributions on Kenyan naming ceremonies and initiation songs, and three studies of the function of Shona and Ndebele proverbs, to national history in Zimbabwean autobiography, traditional mourning dress of the Akans of Ghana, and the precolonial origins of traditional leadership in South Africa.

Contributors: Jude Aigbe Agho, Nasima Ali, Uchenna Bethrand Anih, Aboneh Ashagrie, Francis T. Cheo, Gordon Collier, Abdel Karim Daragmeh, Geoffrey V. Davis, Nozizwe Dhlamini, Kola Eke, Phyllis Forster, Frances Hardie, James Hlongwana, Pede Hollist, John M. Kobia, Samuelson Freddie Khunou, Mea Lashbrooke, María J. López, Brian Macaskill, Evans Mandova, Richard Sgadreck Maposa, Michael Mazuru, Corwin L. Mhlahlo. Zanoxolo Mnqobi Mkhize, Kobus Moolman, Thamsanqa Moyo, Felix M. Muchomba, Collins Kenga Mumbo, Tabitha Wanja Mwangi, Bhekezakhe Ncube, Christopher Joseph Odhiambo, Ode S. Ogede, H. Oby Okolocha, Wumi Raji, Dosia Reichhardt, Rashi Rohatgi, Kamal Salhi, Ekremah Shehab, Faith Sibanda, John A Stotesbury, Nick Mdika Tembo, Kenneth Usongo, Wellington Wasosa.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Collier, Gordon

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kunstethnologie, Musikethnologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Afrikanische Literaturen
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunststile Afrikanische Kunst

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Literature: General
Kola Eke: Responses to Patriarchy in African Women’s Poetry
Francis T. Cheo: A Mirror of Convergence: Association and Racism in Anglophone Cameroonian Literature
Thamsanqa Moyo, Faith Sibanda, and Michael Mazuru: Angles of Telling and Angles on Reality: Representations of the Gukurahundi Period in Selected Zimbabwean Fiction in Shona, Ndebele, and English
Literature: Individual Authors
Jude Aigbe Agho: Class Conflict and the Rise of the ‘Proletarian’ Novel in Africa
Nick Mdika Tembo: History, Religion, and the Dramaturgy of Victimization and Betrayal: Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman and Ngugi wa Thiong’o and Ngugi wa Mirii’s I Will Marry When I Want
Kenneth Usongo: Resisting Oppression: I Will Marry When I Want and the (Re)Writing of History
Corwin L. Mhlahlo: Advocating a Nameable Desire: Yvonne Vera’s Without a Name
Uchenna Bethrand Anih: A Womanist Reading of Douceurs du bercail by Aminata Sow Fall
Rashi Rohatgi: Postcolonial Hindi Translation in Mauritius: The Case of Kalpana Lalji’s Amargeet
Brian Macaskill: Entr’acte: Cannibalism, Semiophagy, and the Plunk-Plink-Plonk of Banjo Strings in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace
Abdel Karim Daragmeh and Ekremah Shehab: Signs Tell Their Own Stories: Rethinking the Status of Writing and Speech in J.M. Coetzee’s Foe
Creative Writing
Pede Hollist: Resettlement
Showcase South Africa
Dosia Reichardt: Introduction
Kobus Moolman: What He Did/One Version of the Road
Mea Lashbrooke: letter to sacred ibis
Zanoxolo Mnqobi Mkhize: The long walk home
Frances Hardie: To Whom It May Concern/Pipe Dream
Nasima Ali: Uprooted
H. Oby Okolocha: BlackBerry
Tabitha Wanja Mwangi: Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall
Felix M. Muchomba: On the Road to Change
African Societies and Cultural Expression
Phyllis Forster: Traditional Mourning Dress of the Akans of Ghana
Samuelson Freddie Khunou: The Origin and Nature of Traditional Leadership in South Africa: A Precolonial Perspective
James Hlongwana, R.S. Maposa, and Thamsanqa Moyo: Sithole, Nkomo, Muzorewa, and the Birth of Zimbabwe: A Reconsideration of Autobiography as a Literary Mode of National History
Thamsanqa Moyo, Bhekezakhe Ncube, and Nozizwe Dhlamini: Peace, Conflict Management, and the Ndebele Proverb
Evans Mandova: The Shona Proverb as an Expression of Unhu/Ubuntu
Wellington Wasosa and Evans Mandova: The Role of Proverbs in the Shona Judicial System with Special Reference to Nhango Dzokusuma Nyaya Padare
Collins Kenga Mumbo: Artistic Techniques of Expression in the Performance of the Mijikenda Naming Ceremony Vyalusa of Kenya
John M. Kobia: Gender Roles in African Oral Literature: A Case Study of Initiation Songs Among the Igembe People of Meru of Kenya
Kamal Salhi: Recontextualizing and Reconfiguring Cultural Identity in Contemporary North Africa
Aboneh Ashagrie: African Cinema: The 6th Ethiopian International Film Festival, 7–14 November 2011
Wumi Raji: The Amphibian’s Dilemma: An Interview with TIJAN M. SALLAH
Reviews
Gordon Collier: Reference Galore
Ode Ogede: Crossing Cultures
Ode Ogede: Teaching the African Novel
Geoffrey V. Davis: Swimming Against the Tide
Christopher Joseph Odhiambo: East Africa Reclaimed
Geoffrey V. Davis: “Urging Readers to Know the Books Written Earlier”
John A Stotesbury: A Remarkably Rich History
María J. López: A Different Southern Africa
Books Received
Notes on Contributors
Notes for Contributors