Postcolonial imaginations and moral representations in African literature and culture [[electronic resource] /] / Chielozona Eze

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910778939803321
• Autore: Eze Chielozona
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Lanham, Md., : Lexington Books, 2011
• ISBN: 1-280-66634-X; 9786613643278; 0-7391-4508-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (157 p.)
• Disciplina: 809.896
• Soggetti: African literature - 20th century - History and criticism; African literature - 21st century - History and criticism; Postcolonialism - Africa; Postcolonialism in literature; Ethics in literature; Africa Intellectual life 20th century; Africa Intellectual life 21st century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Postcolonial states of injury and moral imaginations -- The moral reinvention of Africa -- Things fall apart and the invention of the African culture -- The pitfalls of African feminism -- Robert Mugabe and the symbolic power of history -- Frantz Fanon and the search for new discourse paradigms -- Wole Soyinka and the moral foundations of community -- Literature and the task of increasing the sum total of humanity.
• Sommario/riassunto: Following in the footsteps of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, the tenor of the postcolonial African culture has been justifiably anti-imperialist. In the 21st century, however, there has been a gradual but certain shift away from the "write-back" discourse paradigm, towards more integrative, globally inflected cultural interpretive models in Africa. This book celebrates the emergence of new interpretive paradigms such as in African philosophy, gender studies and literature.