Reading contemporary African literature : critical perspectives / / ed. by Reuben Makayiko Chirambo and J.K.S. Makokha.
Reading Contemporary African Literature brings together scholarship on, critical debates about, and examples of reading African literature in all genres – poetry, fiction, and drama including popular culture. The anthology offers studies of African literature from interdisciplinary perspectives that...
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| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft,
163 Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft 163. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (427 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Foreword / Moradewun Adejunmobi
- Introduction / Reuben Makayiko Chirambo and J. K. S. Makokha
- ‘English Does Not Kill’: Writing Lives in the Language of the ‘Other’ / Stella Borg Barthet
- A Stylistic Analysis of the Story Element in Ngugi’s A Grain of Wheat / Sarala Krishnamurthy
- Mahilet: A Laboratory of Stylistic Experimentation / Tewodros Gebre
- Through the Male Eyes: Gendered Styles in Contemporary Zambian Fiction / Cheela Chilala
- Politics and Stylistics of Female (Re)Presentation in James Ng’ombe’s Sugarcane with Salt / Nick Mdika Tembo
- Telling Lives: Myth, Metaphor and Metafiction in Zakes Mda’s Cion / Marita Wenzel
- Politics and Poetics of Characterization in M. G. Vassanji’s The Book of Secrets / J. K. S. Makokha
- The Invisible Twin: Visibility and Identity in Marie-Thérèse Humbert’s À l’autre bout de moi / Stephanie Cox
- Thematic Design and Stylistic Patterns in Cameron Duodu’s The Gab Boys / Kofi Owusu
- ‘We Can Redream this World and Make the Dream Real’: The Utopian Quest in Ben Okri’s Primary Myths / Abiodun Adeniji
- Orality and the Emergence of Disrupted Narrative Voices in Charles Samupindi’s Pawns / Maurice Taonezvi Vambe
- ‘Zimbolicious’: Shona-English Stylistics in Lyrics and Literature / Flora Veit-Wild
- Repression and Beyond: Ideological Commitment and Style in Jack Mapanje’s and Steve Chimombo’s Poetry / Reuben Makayiko Chirambo
- Oguaa Aban and Cape Coast Castle: Same Edifice, Different Metaphors in the Poetry of Gaddiel Acquaah and Kwadwo Opuku-Agyemang / Leonard Acquah
- Self and Nature: The Cean Dialogues / Gloria M. T. Emezue
- Transitions in South African Urban Poetry: The City of Johannesburg in Three Poems of the Apartheid Period / Sonja Altnöder
- Verbal Fluidities and Masculine Anxieties of the Glocal Urban Imaginary in Kenyan Genge Rap / Chris Wasike
- Language Use and Identity Negotiation in Cameroonian Drama / Kizitus Mpoche
- Afrikaans and Afrikaner Nationalism in Deon Opperman’s Donkerland / Marisa Keuris
- ‘Neither Peace nor War’: The Role of Theatre in Re-Imagining the New Eritrea / Richard Boon
- Contributors.