Emenyonu ALT 27 New Novels in African Literature Today

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-84615-689-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 27, 185 Seiten

Reihe: African Literature Today

This issue of African Literature Today focuses on new novels by emerging as well as established African novelists.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Emenyonu, Ernest N.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Azodo, Ada U.

Cooper, Brenda

Nnolim, Charles

Okonkwo, Christopher

Okafor, Clement

Emenyonu, Ernest N.

Orabueze, Florence

Gibbs, James

McLaren, Joseph

Oike, Machiko

Sougou, Omar

Bailly, Sery

Akhuemokhan, Sophie

Dhar, Tej N.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Sammlungen, Anthologien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Editorial article: The African novel in the 21st century: sustaining the gains of the 20th century - Ernest N. Emenyonu
Resurgent spirits, Catholic echoes of Igbo & petals of purple: the syncretised world of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus - Brenda Cooper
Ambivalent inscriptions: women, youth & diasporic identity in Buchi Emecheta's later fiction - Omar Sougou
The interrupted dance: racial memory in Isidore Okpewho's Call Me By My Rightful Name - Clement Okafor
The Ivorian crisis & Ahmadou Kourouma's posthumous political novel Quand on refuse, on dit non - Sery Bailly
Women as the 'voice of the people'& the western audience: Ngugi's Wizard of the Crow - Joseph McLaren
The ankh & maat: symbols of successful revolution in Ayi Kwei Armah's Osiris Rising - Sophie Akhuemokhan
A new African youth novel in the era of HIV/AIDS: an analysis of Unity Dow's Far & beyon' - Machiko Oike
The prison of Nigerian woman: female complicity in Sefi Atta's Everything Good Will Come - Florence Orabueze
Manufacturing skin for Somalia's history: Nuruddin Farah's deep hurt in Links - Tej N. Dhar
A Zimbabwean ethic of humanity: Tsitsi Dangarembga's The Book of Not & the unhu philosophy of personhood: - Ada U. Azodo
Coming to America: Ike Oguine's A Squatter's Tale & the Nigerian/African immigrant's narrative - Christopher Okonkwo
War discourse as fictional narrative: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun - Charles Nnolim
Reviews - James Gibbs

Über Autor(innen)

Emenyonu Ernest N.:
Ernest N. Emenyonu is Professor Emeritus of Africana Studies at the University of Michigan-Flint, USA. He is Series Editor of African Literature Today. His publications include A Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2017), Emerging Perspectives on Nawal El Saadawi (2010), and the children's book Uzoechi: A Story of African Childhood (2012).Emenyonu Ernest N.:
Ernest N. Emenyonu is Professor Emeritus of Africana Studies at the University of Michigan-Flint, USA. He is Series Editor of African Literature Today. His publications include A Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2017), Emerging Perspectives on Nawal El Saadawi (2010), and the children's book Uzoechi: A Story of African Childhood (2012).