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Reading contemporary African literature : critical perspectives
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| Format : | Livre |
| Langue : | anglais |
| Titre complet : | Reading contemporary African literature : critical perspectives / edited by Reuben Makayiko Chirambo snd J.K.S. Makokha |
| Publié : |
Amsterdam, New York :
Rodopi
, 2013, cop. 2013 |
| Description matérielle : | 1 vol. (443 p.) |
| Collection : | Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft (Print) ; 163 |
| Sujets : |
- Foreword / Moradewun Adejunmobi
- Introduction / Reuben Makayiko Chirambo & J. K. S. Makokha
- Section I : general perspectives
- 1. English does not kill : writing lives in the language of the "other" / Stella Borg Barthet
- Section II : Fiction
- 2. A stylistic analysis of the story element in Ngugi's A grain of wheat / Sarala Krishnamurthy
- 3. Mahilet : a laboratory of stylistic experimentation / Tewodros Gebre
- 4. Through the male eyes : gendered styles in contemporary zambian fiction / Cheela Chilala
- 5. Politics and stylistics of female (re)presentation in James Ng'ombe's Sugarcane with salt / Nick Mdika Tembo
- 6. Telling lives : myth, metaphor and metafiction in Zakes Mda's Cion / Marita Wenzel
- 7. Politics and poetics of characterization in M. G. Vassanji's The Book of secrets / J. K. S. Makokha8. The invisible twin : visibility and identity in Marie-Thérèse Humbert's A l'autre bout de moi / Stéphanie Cox
- 9. Thematic design and stylistic patterns in Cameron Duodu's The gab boys / Kofi Owusu
- 10. "We can redream this world and make the dream real" : the utopian quest in Ben Okri's primary myths / Abiodun Adeniji
- 11. Orality and the emergence of disrupted narrative voices in Charles Samupindi's pawns / Maurice Taonezvi Vambe
- 12. "Zimbolicious" : shona-english stylistics in lyrics and literature / Flora Veit-Wild
- Section III : Poetry and orature
- 13. Repression and beyond : ideological commiment and style in Jack Mapanje's and Steve Chimombo's poetry / Reuben Makayiko Chirambo
- 14. Oguaa Aban and Cape Coast Castle : same edifice, different metaphors in the poetry of Gaddiel Acquaah and Kwadwo Opuku-Agyemang / Leonard Acquah
- 14. Self and nature : the cean dialogues / Gloria M. T. Emezue
- 16. Transitions in South African urban poetry : the city of Johannesburg in three poems of the Apartheid period / Sonja Altnöder
- 17. Verbal fluidities and masculine anxieties of the global urban imaginary in Kenyan genge rap / Chris Wasike
- Section IV : Drama and theatre
- 18. Language use and identity negotiation in Cameroonian drama / Kizitus mpoche
- 19. Afrikaans and Afrikaner nationalism in Deon Opperman's Donkerland / Marisa Keuris
- 20. "Neither peace nor war" : the role of theatre in re-imagining the New eritrea / Richard Boon