03656nam 2200637 450 991046036080332120200520144314.02-86978-672-7(CKB)3710000000570398(EBL)4335202(SSID)ssj0001598699(PQKBManifestationID)16299726(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001598699(PQKBWorkID)14803087(PQKB)10535589(MiAaPQ)EBC4335202(OCoLC)936409660(MdBmJHUP)muse52200(PPN)193663902(Au-PeEL)EBL4335202(CaPaEBR)ebr11150061(CaONFJC)MIL888208(OCoLC)935642664(EXLCZ)99371000000057039820150831h20152015 uy| 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrAfrican literature and the future /edited by Gbemisola AdeotiDakar :CODESRIA, Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa,[2015]©20151 online resource (114 p.)Africa and the challenges of the twenty-first centuryCodesria book series"This book is a product of the CODESRIA 13th General Assembly, 2011"--Page opposite title page.2-86978-633-6 Includes bibliographical references.Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; About the Contributors; Introduction. Present Tension in Future Tenses: Re-writing Africa into the Twenty-first Century; 1. Orality, Modernity and African Development: Myth as Dialogue of Civilisations; Introduction; Myth-Orality Nexus and the 'Other' Modernity; Myth, Modernity and the Development Question in Africa; Africa, Myth and the Dialogue of Civilisations Narrative; Re-Reading Myth as Text; Conclusion; References; 2. Requiem for Absolutism: Soyinka and the Re-visioning of Governance in Twenty-first Century Africa; IntroductionSoyinka and the Absolute State The Beatification of Area Boy; King Baabu; Concluding Remarks; Notes; References; 3. A Critical Discourse Evaluation of Decolonisation and Democratisation: Issues in Africa as Exemplified in Soyinka's Non-fictional Texts; Introduction; Theory and Methods of Post-colonialism; The Non-fictional Writings of Soyinka; Lexical Indexicalisation of Political Actors; Conclusion; References; 4. Power, Artistic Agency and Poetic Discourse: Poetry as Cultural Critique in Africa; Introduction; Literary Trajectory; Nation, Power and DissidenceExile and Dispersal: Post-Nation Anxiety Conclusion; Notes; References; 5. African Literature and the Anxiety of Being in the Twenty-first Century; Introduction; Conceptualising African Literature; African Literature in the Twenty-first Century; Towards the Future; Conclusion; References; 6. A Critical Analysis of Prophetic Myths in the Selected Fiction of Ben Okri; Introduction; Journey as Archetypal Motif; In Search of the Future: Mythical Paradigms as Prophecy in In Arcadia; Unorthodox Archetypes as Predictive Myth; Unorthodox Archetypal Statements; Unorthodox Archetypal Sights; ConclusionReferencesBack coverCodesria book series.African literatureElectronic books.African literature.Adeoti GbemisolaCodesria,MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910460360803321African literature and the future2467038UNINA