African Literatures in the Eighties / / Dieter Riemenschneider.

• Superior document: Matatu Series ; v.10
• VerfasserIn: Riemenschneider, Dieter,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Brill Academic Publishers,, 1993.
• Year of Publication: 1993
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Matatu Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (214 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Articles -- Discourses of Arrested Modernization: African Literary Theory in the 1980s -- Desert Gold. Irrigation Schemes for Ending the Book Drought -- L'Afrique "francophone" se raconte: une décennie d'expression africaine -- West African Literature in the 1980s -- The Eighties and the Return to Oral Cadences in Nigerian Poetry -- The Elusive Truth. Literary Development in Zimbabwe since 1980 -- East African Literature in the 1980s -- South African Literature of the Eighties -- Claiming Her Authority from Life: Twenty Years of African Women's Literary Criticism -- Poems -- Dearly Beloved -- There is no Sun in Africa but Drought -- The Vengeance of the Poor Man -- To the Memory of my Beloved Brother, Dambudzo Marechera. An Extract -- Short Stories -- In Search of Counsel -- Death of Murderess -- Complaints, Complaints -- Photographs -- The Fifties in South Africa -- Conference Report -- Conference on "Language Ecology in Africa". University of Namibia, Windhoek, 9-13 September 1991. -- Book Reviews -- Faces of Islam in African Literature, ed. Kenneth Harrow. -- Ann Biersteker et.al.: Masomo ya Kisasa. Contemporary Readings in Swahili. -- Chantal Zabus: The African Palimpsest: Indigenization of Language in the West African Novel. -- Self-Assertion and Brokerage: Early Cultural Nationalism in West Africa, eds. P.F. de Moraes Farias/Karin Barber. -- Neil Lazarus: Resistance in Post-Colonial African Fiction. -- Anne Fuchs: Playing the Market: The Market Theatre, 1976-1986. -- Culture in Another South Africa, eds. Willem Campschreur/Jost Divendal -- Sue Williamson: Resistance Art in South Africa -- Rendering Things Visible. Essays on South African Literary Culture, ed. Martin Trump -- Klaus Kreimeier: Nadine Gordimer.

Conversations with Nadine Gordimer, eds. Nancy Topping Bazin/Marilyn Dallman Seymour. -- Critical Essays on Nadine Gordimer, ed. Rowland Smith. -- Bernth Lindfors: Black African Literature in English, 1982-1986. -- Carol Sicherman: Ngugi wa Thiong'o. A Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources 1957-1987 -- Carol Sicherman: Ngugi wa Thiong'o. The Making of a Rebel. A Source Book in Kenyan Literature and Resistance -- Herta Meyer: "Justice for the Oppressed ..." The Political Dimension in the Language Use of Ngugi wa Thiong'o. -- Declarations of Cultural Independence in the English Speaking World, ed. Luigi Sampietro. -- Schwarzafrikanische Literatur im Französischunterricht der Oberstufe, eds. Joachim Schultz/Herbert Schnädter. -- Index to Matatu 1-10 -- Author's Addresses.