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Record Nr.

UNINA9910794060403321

Titolo

Routledge handbook of minority discourses in African literature  / / edited by Tanure Ojaide and Joyce Ashuntantang

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Routledge, 2020

ISBN

1-000-05305-9

0-429-35422-3

1-000-05303-2

9780429354229 (electronic book)

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi, 415 pages)

Disciplina

809.896

Soggetti

African literature

African literature - History and criticism

Minorities in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Pat I: Background -- Part II: Political and racial forms of marginalization -- Part III Culture and language -- Part IV Patriarchal domination, gender, sexuality, and other sociocultural "minorities" -- Part V: Intranational, national, and international marginalization/conflict -- Part VI: Literature and disability -- Part VII Recent rends of marginalities: timely and timeless

Sommario/riassunto

"This handbook provides a critical overview of literature dealing with groups of people or regions that suffer marginalization within Africa. The contributors examine a multiplicity of minority discourses expressed in African literature, including those who are culturally, socially, politically, religiously, economically, and sexually marginalized in literary and artistic creations. Chapters and sections of the book are structured to identify major areas of minority articulation of their condition and strategies deployed against the repression, persecution, oppression, suppression, domination, and tyranny of the majority or dominant group. Bringing together diverse perspectives to give a holistic representation of the African reality, this handbook is an important read for scholars and students of comparative and



postcolonial literature and African studies."--