African Literature and the Politics of Culture

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4438-5032-2
Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten

This book essentially negotiates African literature as a veritable site of artistic and cultural production and situates it within the dynamic of postcolonial cultural politics. It critically evaluates African literature as a contour of cultural contestation with the imperial politics of knowledge production about others and as an ideological strategy for knowing them. The book’s main contribution to the critical discourse on African literature and culture inheres in the fact that politics constitutes the enduring concern of society as it re/shapes and over-determines discourses which have continued to remain crucial to societal engineering. It, however, imagines the discursive existence as necessary for the evolving of a dynamic African literary tradition with an abiding fidelity to the verities of history. The book is useful for literary scholars, historians, critics, experts and students of postcolonial/cultural studies as well as general readership interested in African studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tsaaior, James Tar

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Afrikanische Literaturen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Postkoloniale Geschichte, Nationale Befreiung und Unabhängigkeit
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Über Autor(innen)

Tsaaior, James Tar
James Tar Tsaaior is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Mass Media and Writing in the School of Media and Communication, Pan-African University (now Pan-Atlantic University), Lagos, Nigeria where he teaches creative writing, media/cultural studies and postcolonial literature. He is also the Director of Academic Planning of the University and editor of the Journal of Cultural and Media Studies. Between 2010 and 2011, he was a visiting Leverhulme and Isaac Newton Research Fellow at the Centre of African Studies, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, and a participant in the International Faculty Programme, University of Navarre IESE Business School, Barcelona, Spain.

James Tar Tsaaior is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Mass Media and Writing in the School of Media and Communication, Pan-African University (now Pan-Atlantic University), Lagos, Nigeria where he teaches creative writing, media/cultural studies and postcolonial literature. He is also the Director of Academic Planning of the University and editor of the Journal of Cultural and Media Studies. Between 2010 and 2011, he was a visiting Leverhulme and Isaac Newton Research Fellow at the Centre of African Studies, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, and a participant in the International Faculty Programme, University of Navarre IESE Business School, Barcelona, Spain.