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19 produkter
Habari ya English? What about Kiswahili?
East Africa as a Literary and Linguistic Contact Zone
Av Lutz Diegner
Inbunden, 2015
1567 kr
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This wide-ranging collection deals with the dynamics of current developments in literature, language, and culture in Kenya and Tanzania. It testifies to a spirited exchange of ideas between writers and academics and promotes transdisciplinary dialogue among several academic fields – anglophone and …
Landlines in African Literary Studies
Inbunden, 2016
2815 kr
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The notion of ‘landlines’ intimates communication, and is a fairly safe bet as far as most of the writing offered here, critical and creative, is concerned. In a way, of course, the metaphor is a rearguard action, and blows up in one’s face, as it were, suggesting as it does a system of telephonic …
Pepper-Pot of Cultures
Aspects of Creolization in the Caribbean
Häftad, 2003
1475 kr
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The terms ‘creole’ and ‘creolization’ have witnessed a number of significant semantic changes in the course of their history. Originating in the vocabulary associated with colonial expansion in the Americas it had been successively narrowed down to the field of black American culture or of …
African Cultures, Visual Arts, and the Museum
Sights/Sites of Creativity and Conflict
Häftad, 2002
729 kr
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No Condition is Permanent
Nigerian Writing and the Struggle for Democracy
Häftad, 2001
887 kr
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Body, Sexuality, and Gender
Versions and Subversions in African Literatures 1
Inbunden, 2005
1744 kr
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Literary representations of the body from Africa as well as narrative strategies of writing the body have only recently begun to receive wider critical attention. The reflections on body, sexuality, and gender in African literary texts brought together in this volume do not consider these three …
Texts, Tasks, and Theories
Versions and Subversions in African Literatures 3
Inbunden, 2007
1415 kr
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African literary theory has recently gained immensely from an emerging multitude of perspectives and scholarly approaches. This volume offers a welcome opportunity to assess trends in the twenty-first century’s discourse on African literature: Twelve different articles treat such lively issues as …
Zimbabwean Transitions
Essays on Zimbabwean Literature in English, Ndebele and Shona
Inbunden, 2007
1501 kr
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This collection of essays on Zimbabwean literature brings together studies of both Rhodesian and Zimbabwean literature, spanning different languages and genres. It charts the at times painful process of the evolution of Rhodesian/ Zimbabwean identities that was shaped by pre-colonial, colonial and …
Transcultural Modernities
Narrating Africa in Europe
Inbunden, 2009
2673 kr
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The swelling flows of migration from Africa towards Europe have aroused interest not only in the socio-political consequences of the migrants’ insistent appeals to ‘fortress Europe’ but also in the artistic integration of African migrants into the cultural world of Europe. While in recent years the …
Fearful Symmetries
Essays and Testimonies Around Excision and Circumcision
Inbunden, 2008
1866 kr
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Often labelled ‘rituals’ or ‘customs’, male circumcision and female excision are also irreversible amputations of human genitalia, with disastrous and at times life-long consequences for both males and females. However, scholars and activists alike have been diffident about making a case for …
Trauma, Memory, and Narrative in South Africa
Interviews
Av Ewald Mengel
Inbunden, 2010
1581 kr
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Twenty years after the fall of apartheid, South Africa is still struggling with its traumatic past. In this interdisciplinary collection of interviews, prominent South African novelists, psychologists, and academics reflect on the issues of trauma, memory, and narrative.The authors André Brink, …
Spheres Public and Private
Western Genres in African Literature
Inbunden, 2011
4271 kr
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The coverage displayed here is predominantly on sub-Saharan literary production, and with a – perhaps systemic – focus on important aspects of political history and socio-political structures (including marxian analyses of the ‘public sphere’) and such crucial arenas as religious discipline, the …
Focus on Nigeria
Literature and Culture
Inbunden, 2012
3100 kr
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This issue of Matatu offers cutting-edge studies of contemporary Nigerian literature, a selection of short fiction and poetry, and a range of essays on various themes of political, artistic, socio-linguistic, and sociological interest. Contributions on theatre focus on the fool as dramatic …
African Cultures and Literatures
A Miscellany
Inbunden, 2013
3400 kr
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Besides searching book reviews, an interview with the writer Tijan M. Sallah, a full report on the 6th Ethiopian International Film Festival, and a stimulating selection of creative writing (including a showcase of recent South African poetry), this issue of Matatu offers general essays on African …
Applied Drama and Theatre as an Interdisciplinary Field in the Context of HIV/AIDS in Africa
Av Hazel Barnes
Inbunden, 2013
1815 kr
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Drama for Life, University of the Witwatersrand, aims “to enhance the capacity of young people, theatre practitioners and their communities to take responsibility for the quality of their lives in the context of HIV and AIDS in Africa. We achieve this through participatory and experiential drama …
Arts Activism, Education, and Therapies
Transforming Communities Across Africa
Av Hazel Barnes
Inbunden, 2013
1922 kr
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This second volume of research emanating from Drama for Life, University of the Witwatersrand, explores the transformative and healing qualities of the arts in South Africa, Botswana, Cameroon, Kenya, Rwanda, and Zimbabwe. Essays on arts for social change illuminate the difficulties of …
Performing Wisdom
Proverbial Lore in Modern Ugandan Society
Inbunden, 2013
2419 kr
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This is the third collection produced by members of a six-year research project, funded by the NUFU (Norwegian Programme for Development, Research, and Education), whose concern was to find, preserve, and analyse ‘orature’ – spoken forms of all kinds, both their unique qualities and their …
Caribbean Writers / Les auteurs Caribéens
Between Orality & Writing / Entre l’oralité et l’écriture
Häftad, 1994
2144 kr
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