02644nam 2200577 450 991081598510332120200520144314.0978-36037-4-4(CKB)3710000000112088(EBL)1690594(SSID)ssj0001325587(PQKBManifestationID)11750888(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001325587(PQKBWorkID)11529321(PQKB)11376764(MiAaPQ)EBC1690594(Au-PeEL)EBL1690594(CaPaEBR)ebr10870447(CaONFJC)MIL664266(OCoLC)879948828(PPN)187343756(EXLCZ)99371000000011208820140523h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCounter discourse in African literature /Smith and Ce, editorsOxford, [England] :African Library of Critical Writing,2014.©[2014]1 online resource (156 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-322-32984-2 978-37085-6-2 Includes bibliographical references.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 coverThis 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 diaspAfrican literatureAfricaLiterary collectionsAfrican literature.808.80326SmithC. EMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910815985103321Counter discourse in African literature4104281UNINA