Emenyonu ALT 32 Politics & Social Justice: African Literature Today

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-78204-387-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 32, 211 Seiten

Reihe: African Literature Today

Examines some of the varied African literary responses to politics and social justice and injustice under colonialism/neocolonialism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Emenyonu, Ernest N.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Klein, Deborah L.

Sackey, Edward

Ilieva, Emilia V.

Zuhmboshi, Eric Nsuh

Emenyonu, Ernest N.

Negash, Ghirmai

Okolocha, H. Obiageli

Kamalu, Ikenna

Gibbs, James

Anyidoho, Kofi

Wright, Laura

Adjei, Mawuli

Kamau-Goro, Nicholas

Adika, Prince K.

Knighton, Rachel A.

Priebe, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Afrikanische Literaturen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Editorial article: Fiction and Socio-Political Realities in Africa: What Else Can Literature Do? - Ernest N. Emenyonu
The Novel as an Oral Narrative Performance: The Delegitimization of the Postcolonial Nation in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Matigari Ma Njiruungi - Nicholas Kamau-Goro
The Novel as an Oral Narrative Performance: The Delegitimization of the Postcolonial Nation in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Matigari Ma Njiruungi - Emilia V. Ilieva
Abiku in Ben Okri's Imagination of Nationhood: A Metaphorical Interpretation of Colonial-Postcolonial Politics - Ikenna Kamalu
Refracting the Political: Binyavanga Wainaina's One Day I Will Write About This Place - Rachel A. Knighton
Ayi Kwei Armah's The Resolutionaries: Exoteric Fiction, the Common People & Social Change in Post-Colonial Africa - A Critical Review - Edward Sackey
In Quest of Social Justice: Politics & Women's Participation in Irene Isoken Salami's More Than Dancing - H. Oby Okolocha
Breaking the Laws in J. M. Coetzee's The Childhood of Jesus: Philosophy & the Notion of Justice - Laura Wright
The Rhetoric & Caricature of Social Justice in Post-1960 Africa: A Logical Positivist Reading of Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Matigari - Eric Nsuh Zuhmboshi
'Manhood' in Isidore Okpewho's The Last Duty: Authority or Accountability? - Deborah L. Klein
REMEMBERING KOFI AWOONOR (13 March 1935 - 21 September 2013) I: Kofi Awoonor: In Retrospect - Kofi Anyidoho
II: Kofi Awoonor: Poem for a Mentor & Friend - Ghirmai Negash
III: Looking Death in the Eye: The Human Condition, Morbidity & Mortality in Kofi Awoonor's Poetry - Mawuli Adjei
IV: Eulogy for an Artist, a Statesman, a Teacher & Friend: Kofi Awoonor - Richard Priebe
V: Postcolonial Trauma & the Poetics of Remembering the Novels of Kofi Awoonor - Prince K. Adika
VI: Song for Nyidevu - Kofi Anyidoho
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).Okolocha H. Obiageli:
H. Obiageli Okolocha is a Professor of African Literature, Theory and Gender Studies in the Department of English and Literature, University of Benin, Nigeria.Wright Laura:
Laura Wright is a Reader in English Language at the University of Cambridge, where she works on the history of English.