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

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Superior document:African histories and modernities
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2015.
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:African histories and modernities.
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Physical Description:1 online resource (301 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.