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Record Nr.

UNISA996571851903316

Autore

Emenyo̲nu Ernest <1939->

Titolo

Alt 40 : African Literature Comes of Age

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Woodbridge : , : Boydell & Brewer, Limited, , 2022

©2023

ISBN

1-80010-567-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 pages)

Collana

African Literature Today Series

Altri autori (Persone)

RoyParamita Routh

AhumibeNonye Chinyere

IsiguzoChikwurah Destiny

Adebiyi-AdelabuKazeem

NegriAlexandra

DioufChristophe Sékène

EhanireBenedicta Adeola

GamboSani

MushakavanhuTinashe

Disciplina

809.8896

Soggetti

African literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Front cover -- Table of Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Editorial Article -- African Literature Comes of Age -- Articles -- Of Literature &amp -- Medicine -- Post-humanism &amp -- Speciesism in African Literature -- Manifestations of Masculinities in Adichie's Novels -- Female Narratives &amp -- New Visions in African Women's Writing -- Religion, Capitalism &amp -- Politics -- Gang Violence on the Cape Flats in Rossouw's What Will People Say? -- Denunciation of Religious Collusion in Devil on the Cross/Matigari -- The Weapons of Subjugation in Mbue's How Beautiful We Were -- Abrogating Aesthetic Boundaries in Contemporary Nigerian Poetry -- The End of Robert Mugabe -- The Text &amp -- Textual Fields of African Popular Literature -- Literary Supplement -- Kasimma: Ezuga (Short Story) -- Eugen M. Bacon: Four Poems -- Tributes -- Remembering Professor Charles R. Larson -- The End of an Era -- Reviews -- Kasimma. All



Shades of Iberibe -- Egbuta &amp -- Chukwu (eds). World on the Brinks -- Evelyn N. Urama (ed). The Writer in the Mirror -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. 'Zikora: A Short Story' -- Isidore Diala (ed). Obumselu on African Literature -- Imbolo Mbue. Behold the Dreamers -- Tijan M. Sallah. Saani Baat.

Sommario/riassunto

Explores and interrogates the many and diverse perspectives of the new frontiers of African literary studies.