Reuben Makayiko Chirambo et J. K. S. Makokha (eds), Reading Contemporary African Literature. Critical PerspectivesAmsterdam / New York : Rodopi, coll. "Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft", 2013.443 p.EAN 978904203675893,00 EURPrésentation de l'éditeur :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 employ sociological, historical, and ethnographic besides literary analysis of the literatures. It has assembled critical and researched essays on a range of topics, theoretical and empirical, by renowned critics and theorists of African literature that evaluate and provide examples of reading African literature that should be of interest to academics, researchers, and students of African literature, culture, and history amongst other subjects. Some of the essays examine authors that have received little or no attention to date in books on recent African literature. These essays provide new insights and scholarship that should broaden and deepen our understanding and appreciation of African literature.Sommaire :ContentsMoradewun Adejunmobi: ForewordReuben Makayiko Chirambo & J. K. S. Makokha: IntroductionSection I: General PerspectivesStella Borg Barthet: ‘English Does Not Kill’: Writing Lives in the Language of the ‘Other’Section II: FictionSarala Krishnamurthy: A Stylistic Analysis of the Story Element in Ngugi’s A Grain of WheatTewodros Gebre: Mahilet : A Laboratory of Stylistic ExperimentationCheela Chilala: Through the Male Eyes: Gendered Styles in Contemporary Zambian FictionNick Mdika Tembo: Politics and Stylistics of Female (Re)Presentation in James Ng’ombe’s Sugarcane with SaltMarita Wenzel: Telling Lives: Myth, Metaphor and Metafiction in Zakes Mda’s CionJ. K. S. Makokha: Politics and Poetics of Characterization in M. G. Vassanji’s The Book of SecretsStephanie Cox: The Invisible Twin: Visibility and Identity in Marie-Thérèse Humbert’s À l’autre bout de moiKofi Owusu: Thematic Design and Stylistic Patterns in Cameron Duodu’s The Gab BoysAbiodun Adeniji: ‘We Can Redream this World and Make the Dream Real’: The Utopian Quest in Ben Okri’s Primary MythsMaurice Taonezvi Vambe: Orality and the Emergence of Disrupted Narrative Voices in Charles Samupindi’s PawnsFlora Veit-Wild: ‘Zimbolicious’: Shona-English Stylistics in Lyrics and LiteratureSection III: Poetry and OratureReuben Makayiko Chirambo: Repression and Beyond: Ideological Commitment and Style in Jack Mapanje’s and Steve Chimombo’s PoetryLeonard Acquah: Oguaa Aban and Cape Coast Castle: Same Edifice, Different Metaphors in the Poetry of Gaddiel Acquaah and Kwadwo Opuku-AgyemangGloria M. T. Emezue: Self and Nature: The Cean DialoguesSonja Altnöder: Transitions in South African Urban Poetry: The City of Johannesburg in Three Poems of the Apartheid PeriodChris Wasike: Verbal Fluidities and Masculine Anxieties of the Glocal Urban Imaginary in Kenyan Genge RapSection IV: Drama and TheatreKizitus Mpoche: Language Use and Identity Negotiation in Cameroonian DramaMarisa Keuris: Afrikaans and Afrikaner Nationalism in Deon Opperman’s DonkerlandRichard Boon: ‘Neither Peace nor War’: The Role of Theatre in Re-Imagining the New EritreaContributors
Reuben Makayiko Chirambo et J. K. S. Makokha (eds), Reading Contemporary African Literature. Critical PerspectivesAmsterdam / New York : Rodopi, coll. "Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft", 2013.443 p.EAN 978904203675893,00 EURPrésentation de l'éditeur :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 employ sociological, historical, and ethnographic besides literary analysis of the literatures. It has assembled critical and researched essays on a range of topics, theoretical and empirical, by renowned critics and theorists of African literature that evaluate and provide examples of reading African literature that should be of interest to academics, researchers, and students of African literature, culture, and history amongst other subjects. Some of the essays examine authors that have received little or no attention to date in books on recent African literature. These essays provide new insights and scholarship that should broaden and deepen our understanding and appreciation of African literature.Sommaire :ContentsMoradewun Adejunmobi: ForewordReuben Makayiko Chirambo & J. K. S. Makokha: IntroductionSection I: General PerspectivesStella Borg Barthet: ‘English Does Not Kill’: Writing Lives in the Language of the ‘Other’Section II: FictionSarala Krishnamurthy: A Stylistic Analysis of the Story Element in Ngugi’s A Grain of WheatTewodros Gebre: Mahilet : A Laboratory of Stylistic ExperimentationCheela Chilala: Through the Male Eyes: Gendered Styles in Contemporary Zambian FictionNick Mdika Tembo: Politics and Stylistics of Female (Re)Presentation in James Ng’ombe’s Sugarcane with SaltMarita Wenzel: Telling Lives: Myth, Metaphor and Metafiction in Zakes Mda’s CionJ. K. S. Makokha: Politics and Poetics of Characterization in M. G. Vassanji’s The Book of SecretsStephanie Cox: The Invisible Twin: Visibility and Identity in Marie-Thérèse Humbert’s À l’autre bout de moiKofi Owusu: Thematic Design and Stylistic Patterns in Cameron Duodu’s The Gab BoysAbiodun Adeniji: ‘We Can Redream this World and Make the Dream Real’: The Utopian Quest in Ben Okri’s Primary MythsMaurice Taonezvi Vambe: Orality and the Emergence of Disrupted Narrative Voices in Charles Samupindi’s PawnsFlora Veit-Wild: ‘Zimbolicious’: Shona-English Stylistics in Lyrics and LiteratureSection III: Poetry and OratureReuben Makayiko Chirambo: Repression and Beyond: Ideological Commitment and Style in Jack Mapanje’s and Steve Chimombo’s PoetryLeonard Acquah: Oguaa Aban and Cape Coast Castle: Same Edifice, Different Metaphors in the Poetry of Gaddiel Acquaah and Kwadwo Opuku-AgyemangGloria M. T. Emezue: Self and Nature: The Cean DialoguesSonja Altnöder: Transitions in South African Urban Poetry: The City of Johannesburg in Three Poems of the Apartheid PeriodChris Wasike: Verbal Fluidities and Masculine Anxieties of the Glocal Urban Imaginary in Kenyan Genge RapSection IV: Drama and TheatreKizitus Mpoche: Language Use and Identity Negotiation in Cameroonian DramaMarisa Keuris: Afrikaans and Afrikaner Nationalism in Deon Opperman’s DonkerlandRichard Boon: ‘Neither Peace nor War’: The Role of Theatre in Re-Imagining the New EritreaContributors