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28 produkter
Literary History of the Igbo Novel
African Literature in African Languages
Inbunden, 2020
2879 kr
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This book looks at the trends in the development of the Igbo novel from its antecedents in oral performance, through the emergence of the first published novel, Omenuko, in 1933 by Pita Nwana, to the contemporary Igbo novel.Defining "Igbo literature" as literature in Igbo language, and "Igbo novel" …
ALT 24 New Women's Writing in African Literature
Häftad, 2004
382 kr
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The rapid upsurge of writing by African women has been one of the most dynamic, phenomenal trends of African literature at the end of the twentieth century.African women writers have come a long way since the 1960s when they were hardly acknowledged or noticed as serious writers. In the past four …
ALT 25 New Directions in African Literature
Häftad, 2006
382 kr
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Critics take stock of where African Literature has got to and where it is likely to go with the next generation of writers.Contributors to this volume ask what are the new directions of African literature? What should be the major concerns of writers, critics and teachers in the twenty-first …
ALT 26 War in African Literature Today
Häftad, 2008
345 kr
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How have African writers addressed the issue of war and its impact across the continent?Since the second half of the twentieth century, no single phenomenon has marred the image and development of Africa more than senseless fratricidal wars which rapidly followed the political independence of …
ALT 27 New Novels in African Literature Today
Häftad, 2009
345 kr
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This issue of African Literature Today focuses on new novels by emerging as well as established African novelists.This is a seminal work that discusses the validity of the perception that the new generation of African novelists is remarkably different in vision, style, and worldview from the older …
Literary History of the Igbo Novel
African Literature in African Languages
Häftad, 2021
795 kr
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This book looks at the trends in the development of the Igbo novel from its antecedents in oral performance, through the emergence of the first published novel, Omenuko, in 1933 by Pita Nwana, to the contemporary Igbo novel.Defining "Igbo literature" as literature in Igbo language, and "Igbo novel" …
ALT 31 Writing Africa in the Short Story: African Literature Today
Häftad, 2013
345 kr
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The success of the Caine Prize for African Writing and the growth of online publishing have played key roles in putting the short story in its rightful place within the study and criticism of African literature.African writers have, much more than the critics, recognized the beauty and potency of …
ALT 32 Politics & Social Justice: African Literature Today
Häftad, 2014
345 kr
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Examines some of the varied African literary responses to politics and social justice and injustice under colonialism/neocolonialism.In 1965, Chinua Achebe, in his classic essay "The Novelist as Teacher", declared that the "African past - with all its imperfections - was not one long night of …
ALT 33 Children's Literature & Story-telling
African Literature Today
Häftad, 2015
345 kr
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Contributors analyse the theories behind children's literature, its functions and cultural significance, and suggest the new directions this literature is taking in terms of its craft, themes and intentions.Africa's encounter with the West and its implications and consequences remain far-reaching …
ALT 34 Diaspora & Returns in Fiction
African Literature Today
Inbunden, 2016
1415 kr
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Imagined or actual returns to a "homeland" in African literature are examined in relation to changing concepts of identity, belonging, migration and space.This special issue focuses on literary texts by African writers in which the protagonist returns to his/her "original" or ancestral "home" in …
ALT 34 Diaspora & Returns in Fiction
African Literature Today
Häftad, 2016
460 kr
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Imagined or actual returns to a "homeland" in African literature are examined in relation to changing concepts of identity, belonging, migration and space.This special issue focuses on literary texts by African writers in which the protagonist returns to his/her "original" or ancestral "home" in …
Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Inbunden, 2017
1415 kr
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A critical examination of the engaging voice and multiple stories of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on war, feminism, art, ideology, hair, complex human identities and the challenges of multicultural existence.Easily the leading and most engaging voice of her era and generation, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie …
ALT 35: Focus on Egypt
African Literature Today
Inbunden, 2017
1415 kr
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As well as a rare examination of Egyptian literature, this volume includes a non-themed section of Featured Articles and a Literary Supplement.Creativity has flourished in Egypt, a historically important and strategically located North African country and a leading nation in the Arab world. The …
ALT 36: Queer Theory in Film & Fiction
African Literature Today
Av Ernest N Emenyonu, John C. Hawley m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
1415 kr
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ALT 36 turns a "queer eye" on Africa, offering provocative (re-)readings of texts to position formerly erased sexualities and contemporary sexual expression among Africans on the continent, and abroad.Debates on the future of the African continent and the role of gender identities in these visions …
ALT 36: Queer Theory in Film & Fiction
African Literature Today
Av Ernest N Emenyonu, John C. Hawley m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
460 kr
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ALT 36 turns a "queer eye" on Africa, offering provocative (re-)readings of texts to position formerly erased sexualities and contemporary sexual expression among Africans on the continent, and abroad.Debates on the future of the African continent and the role of gender identities in these visions …
ALT 38 Environmental Transformations
African Literature Today
Av Ernest N Emenyonu, Ernest N. Emenyonu
Inbunden, 2020
971 kr
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Investigates what literary strategies African writers adopt to convey the impact of climate transformation and environmental change.This special issue examines the ways fiction and poetry engage with environmental consciousness, and how African literary criticism addresses the implications of …
ALT 37
African Literature Today
Inbunden, 2019
1267 kr
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AFRICAN LITERATURE TODAY was established at a time of uncertainty and reconstruction but for 50 years it has played a leading role in nurturing imaginative creativity and its criticism on the African continent and beyond.Contemporary African creative writers have confidently taken strides which …
Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Häftad, 2020
408 kr
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A critical examination of the engaging voice and multiple stories of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on war, feminism, art, ideology, hair, complex human identities and the challenges of multicultural existence.Easily the leading and most engaging voice of her era and generation, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie …
ALT 38 Environmental Transformations
African Literature Today
Av Ernest N Emenyonu, Ernest N. Emenyonu m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
388 kr
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Investigates what literary strategies African writers adopt to convey the impact of climate transformation and environmental change.This special issue examines the ways fiction and poetry engage with environmental consciousness, and how African literary criticism addresses the implications of …
ALT 39
Speculative & Science Fiction
Inbunden, 2021
1415 kr
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Explores the ways in which African writers have approached speculative fiction through in-depth articles on the use of language, terminology and the genealogy of the works.Over the past two decades, there has been a resurgence in the writing of African and African diaspora speculative and science …
ALT 40
African Literature Comes of Age
Inbunden, 2022
1267 kr
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Explores and interrogates the many and diverse perspectives of the new frontiers of African literary studies.Publication of the seminal volume African Literature Comes of Age, by C.D. Narasimhaiah (India) and Ernest N. Emenyonu (Nigeria), in 1988 generated the consciousness that African literature …
ALT 41
African Literature in African Languages
Inbunden, 2023
971 kr
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Interrogates and explores African literature in African languages today, and the continuing interfaces between works in indigenous languages and those written in European languages or languages of colonizers.Sixty years after the Conference of African Writers of English Expression at Makerere …
ALT 42: Oral and Written African Poetry and Poetics
Inbunden, 2024
1267 kr
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Examines the state of African poetry today, the enduring influence of Africa's pioneer poets, today's new generation and their work in written poetry and in spoken word, continuing oral indigenous traditions.Almost half a century after ALT 6 and thirty-three years after ALT 16, what is the state of …
ALT 42: Oral and Written African Poetry and Poetics
Häftad, 2025
378 kr
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Examines the state of African poetry today, the enduring influence of Africa's pioneer poets, today's new generation and their work in written poetry and in spoken word, continuing oral indigenous traditions.Almost half a century after ALT 6 and thirty-three years after ALT 16, what is the state of …
ALT 44: African Writing in the 21st Century
Medium and Message
Inbunden, 2026
1275 kr
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What is the state of African creative fiction, African publishing, and African literary criticism in the first decades of the twenty-first century?This volume focusses on the nature and message of contemporary African imaginative creativity, examining literary works, narrative techniques, and …
ALT 28 Film in African Literature Today
Häftad, 2010
345 kr
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From Hollywood to Nollywood: this issue of African Literature Today examines the relationship between film and video and the literatures of Africa.A recent literary phenomenon in contemporary Africa is the developing relationship between film and African literature. ALT 28 focuses on the interface …
ALT 29 Teaching African Literature Today
Häftad, 2011
345 kr
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Brings together experiences of teachers of African literature from around the world in the context of technological change.Focuses on theoretical and pedagogical approaches to the teaching of African Literature on both sides of the Atlantic and beyond. The publication of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall …
Emerging Perspectives on Nawal El Saadawi
Av Ernest N Emenyonu, Maureen Eke
Häftad, 2010
475 kr
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With contributions from a distinguished set of literary scholars, Ernest Emenyonu and Maureen N. Eke's collection is a useful guide for both scholarly and general readers of Saadawi's work, giving them an understanding of her contents, style and narrative technique as well as her feminist vision …
