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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815985103321

Titolo

Counter discourse in African literature / / Smith and Ce, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, [England] : , : African Library of Critical Writing, , 2014

©[2014]

ISBN

978-36037-4-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (156 p.)

Disciplina

808.80326

Soggetti

African literature

Africa Literary collections

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.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Introduction; Vocal Rejoinders; Chapter One - Utter(ing) Silences; Chapter Two - Reworking the Canon; Chapter Three - An African Antigone; Contemporary Modernity; Chapter 4 - Cultural Translation; Chapter Four - Poetics of Diaspora; Chapter Five - The Rhetoric of Despair; Chapter Six - Memory and Trauma; Chapter Seven - Ethno-lingual issues; Notes and Bibliography; Back cover

Sommario/riassunto

This volume charts the widening frontiers of black literary aesthetics using the prose and dramatic fictions of writers from Africa and the African diaspora. The chapters come in two interactive phases of current critical discourses involving rejoinders from past-present concerns and issues of cultural and contemporary modernity. These studies stress the argument that African literature is hardly discussed outside contemporary history and that the reason for the apparent disconnection among groups in Africa and the diaspora can be traced to the disparate elements within the continent and diasp