Emenyonu / Nwankwo ALT 30 Reflections & Retrospectives: African Literature Today

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-78204-048-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 30, 208 Seiten

Reihe: African Literature Today

A focus on some of the pioneers of African literary creation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Emenyonu, Ernest N.

Nwankwo, Chimalum

Weitere Mitwirkende

Diala-Ogamba, Blessing

Nwankwo, Chimalum

Emenyonu, Ernest N.

Shigali, Hellen Roselyne L.

Gibbs, James

Ashuntantang, Joyce

Tekpetey, Kwawisi

Egbunike, Louisa Uchum

Eke, Maureen N.

Nadaswaran, Shalini

Ogwude, Sophia O.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Afrikanische Literaturen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Editorial Article - Chimalum Nwankwo
Gender Politics, Home & Nation in Zulu Sofola's King Emene: Tragedy of a Rebellion - Maureen N. Eke
The Militant Writer in the Early Fiction of Ousmane Sembène: From Le docker noir to L'Harmattan - Kwawisi Tekpetey
Psychological Violence in Bessie Head's Maru & A Question of Power - Blessing Diala-Ogamba
Constructing the Destructive City: Representations of Lagos in Cyprian Ekwensi's People of the City - Louisa Uchum Egbunike
History, Progress & Prospects in the Development of African Literature: A Tribute to Dennis Brutus - Sophia O. Ogwude
Dispelling the Myth of the 'Silent Woman': The Nigerian Igbo Woman in Flora Nwapa'sEfuru - Shalini Nadaswaran
Interrogating Dichotomies, Reconstructing Emancipation: Bessie Head's Vision on Gender Issues - Hellen Roselyne L. Shigali
Eskia Mphahlele's Enduring Truth in Down Second Avenue - Joyce Ashuntantang
A Tribute to Cyprian O.D. Ekwensi (26 Sept 1921 - 4 Nov 2007): The Writer, the Man & his Era - Ernest N. Emenyonu
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).Nwankwo Chimalum:
CHIMALUM NWANKWO is Writer-in-Residence, Department of English and Literary Studies, Veritas University, Abuja, Nigeria. He has previously taught at the Universities of Nigeria, East Carolina-Greenville, North Carolina A & T State University-Greensboro, where he was Professor of English and World Literatures and Former Chair of the Department of English, Nigeria Turkish Nile University in Abuja. He was Guest Editor of ALT 30 Reflections & Retrospectives. His other critical studies include Of the Deepest Shadows and The Prisons of Fire (2010) and Toward the kingdom of Woman and Man: The Works of Ngugi wa Thiongo (1992). He is also an acclaimed poet, who has published five volumes of poetry, including The Womb in the Heart and Other Poems and Lovesong for Julian Assange & Poems from Love Mountain.Nwankwo Chimalum:
CHIMALUM NWANKWO is Writer-in-Residence, Department of English and Literary Studies, Veritas University, Abuja, Nigeria. He has previously taught at the Universities of Nigeria, East Carolina-Greenville, North Carolina A & T State University-Greensboro, where he was Professor of English and World Literatures and Former Chair of the Department of English, Nigeria Turkish Nile University in Abuja. He was Guest Editor of ALT 30 Reflections & Retrospectives. His other critical studies include Of the Deepest Shadows and The Prisons of Fire (2010) and Toward the kingdom of Woman and Man: The Works of Ngugi wa Thiongo (1992). He is also an acclaimed poet, who has published five volumes of poetry, including The Womb in the Heart and Other Poems and Lovesong for Julian Assange & Poems from Love Mountain.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).Egbunike Louisa Uchum:
LOUISA UCHUM EGBUNIKE is Associate Professor in African and Caribbean Literature, Durham University). She has been guest lecturer to institutions including Wellesley College, The University of the West Indies and The University of Bremen. She has published in journals including African Literature Today and Matatu and has chapters published in edited books including A Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.