03093nam 2200673Ia 450 991082422960332120230721032346.094-012-0564-71-4356-4461-1(CKB)1000000000488393(EBL)556509(OCoLC)714567268(SSID)ssj0000257650(PQKBManifestationID)12093501(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000257650(PQKBWorkID)10253595(PQKB)11655062(MiAaPQ)EBC556509(Au-PeEL)EBL556509(CaPaEBR)ebr10380597(EXLCZ)99100000000048839320080508d2007 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrTexts, tasks, and theories[electronic resource] /edited by Tobias Robert Klein, Ulrike Auga & Viola PrüschenkAmsterdam ;New York Rodopi20071 online resource (241 p.)Matatu ;no. 35Versions and subversions in African literatures ;3Humboldt contributions ;v. 3Description based upon print version of record.90-420-2374-0 Includes bibliographical references.Texts, Tasks, and Theories; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND NOTICE; INTRODUCTION; LANGUAGE, MODERNISM, AND MODERNITY; NEW READINGS IN AFRICAN LITERATURE AND POSTCOLONIAL THEORY; AFRICAN LITERATURE AND CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY: IDENTITY, DISSIDENCE, AND CULTURAL PRACTICE; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS AND EDITORS; NOTES FOR CONTRIBUTORSAfrican literary theory has recently gained immensely from an emerging multitude of perspectives and scholarly approaches. This volume offers a welcome opportunity to assess trends in the twenty-first century's discourse on African literature: Twelve different articles treat such lively issues as modernity, nation, civil society, postcolonial theory, and feminism, relating these both to more recent short stories, poems, and novels and to a large variety of texts that have in one way or another acquired canonical status. The first section "Language, Modernity and Modernism" explores social and aMatatu ;no. 35.Versions and subversions in African literatures ;3.Humboldt contributions ;v. 3.African literatureHistory and criticismPostcolonialism in literatureLiterature, Modern20th centuryHistory and criticismAfrican literatureHistory and criticism.Postcolonialism in literature.Literature, ModernHistory and criticism.808809.896Klein Tobias Robert1712395Auga Ulrike1712396Prüschenk Viola1712397MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910824229603321Texts, tasks, and theories4104490UNINA