Indigeneity, globalization, and African literature : : personally speaking / / Tanure Ojaide.

• Superior document: African histories and modernities
• VerfasserIn: Ojaide, Tanure, 1948-
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2015.
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: African histories and modernities.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (301 pages)
• Other title: Contemporary Africa and the politics in literature --; Homecoming : African literature and human development --; Defining Niger Delta literature : preliminary perspective on an emerging literature --; After the Nobel : Wole Xoyinka's poetic output --; Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart in world literature --; An unusual growth : the development of Tijan M. Sallah's poetry --; An insider testimony : Odia Ofeimun and his generation of Nigerian poets --; Reviving modern African poetry : an argument --; The perils of a culture-less African literature in the age of globalization --; The imperative of experience in poetry : an African perspective --; Indigenous knowledge and its expression in the folklore of Africa and the African diaspora --; Policy studies, activist literature, and pitching for the masses in Nigeria --; Traditional Izon court and modern poetry : Christian Otobotekere's contribution --; Personally speaking : on the beauty I have seen --; Revisiting an African oral poetic performance : Udje today --; Performance, the new African poetry, and my poetry : a commentary --; Two tributes : Chinua Achebe and Kofi Awoonor --; The politics of African literature : production, publishing, and reception.
• ISBN: 9781137542205 (hardback : alk. paper); 9781137560032 (ebook)
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Tanure Ojaide.