Buch, Englisch, Band 148, 380 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 771 g
Reihe: Cross/Cultures
Africa in the World
Buch, Englisch, Band 148, 380 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 771 g
Reihe: Cross/Cultures
ISBN: 978-90-420-3508-9
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi
Fachgebiete
Weitere Infos & Material
Acknowledgements
Introduction: A Memory Trip. Partly in Tandem, Partly Quadrilogical
Africa, My Africa
Holger Ehling: Publishing in Africa: An Overview
Brian Crow: Charisma and Leadership in African Drama
Jürgen Martini: The Little White Ship
Elmar Lehmann: “The Fateful 13”: Sol Plaatje and the Natives’ Land Act
Andrew Martin: Come Back, Dennis Brutus! Geoffrey Davis and the Rediscovery of Apartheid-Era South African Literature
Jamie S. Scott: Space, Time, Solitude: The Liberating Contradictions of Ruth First’s 117 Days
Anne Fuchs: Njabulo Ndebele: From Rediscovering the ‘Ordinary’ to Redefining South African ‘Renaissance’
Brian Worsfold: To Every Miracle Its Gods: Mongane Wally Serote’s Gods of Our Time as a Post-Apartheid Perception of Black Experience
Christine Matzke: Girls with Guts: Writing a South African Thriller: Angela Makholwa in Conversation
Marcia Blumberg: The Politics of Hope: Engaging Lara Foot Newton’s Tshepang: The Third Testament
John A Stotesbury: Rayda Jacobs’s Confessions of a Gambler as Post-Apartheid Cinema
Mbongeni Malaba: Exile and Return in Kavevangua Kahengua’s Dreams
M. J. Daymond: Making a ‘Home’ Elsewhere: The Letters of Bessie Head, 1963–1974
James Gibbs: The Portrait of the Artist as a Younger Traveller: A Reader’s Response to Wole Soyinka’s You Must Set Forth at Dawn
Shirley Chew: Putting Freedom to the Test: Wole Soyinka’s You Must Set Forth at Dawn
Bernth Lindfors: The Lion and the Jewel on BBC Radio: An Audience Survey
Stella Borg Barthet: The Politics of Myth in Ayi Kwei Armah’s Fragments
Christiane Schlote: Oil, Masquerades, and Memory: Sokari Douglas Camp’s Memorial of Ken Saro–Wiwa
Monika Reif–Hülser: Ways of Transition: Truth and Reconciliation Commissions: Controversial Strategies for Dealing with Past Violence in Societies in Transition
Frank Schulze–Engler: Freedom vs. Anticolonialism in Zimbabwe: Subversions of the ‘Third Chimurenga’ Myth in African Literature
Gareth Griffiths: Narrative, Identity and Social Practice in Tanzania: Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Ironic Paradise
Jane Plastow: Finding Children’s Voices: Using Theatre to Critique the Education System in England and Eritrea
What It’s All About
Richard Martin: Three poems for Geoff from around the world
Jacques Alvarez-Péreyre: Les revenants/They are back!
Stephen Gray: Interview with the Last Speaker
Karen King–Aribisala: The Nature of Tragedy
Jürgen Jansen: he made it – very much his story
Peter Stummer: Stock-Taking in the Guise of Some Semantic Gymnastics: A raw poem for Geoff, in honour of Hena and Anna
Coda
Hamish Walker and Michael Senior: A Personal Dedication to Dr. Geoffrey Vernon Davis, or, a socialite gentleman scholar, cosmopolitan workaholic, connoisseur of fine books, films, wines, beers, and spirits
Notes on Contributors