LEADER 03622nam 2200625 450 001 9910797929303321 005 20220204174701.0 010 $a2-86978-672-7 035 $a(CKB)3710000000570398 035 $a(EBL)4335202 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001598699 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16299726 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001598699 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14803087 035 $a(PQKB)10535589 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4335202 035 $a(OCoLC)936409660 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse52200 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4335202 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11150061 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL888208 035 $a(OCoLC)935642664 035 $a(PPN)193663902 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000570398 100 $a20150831h20152015 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aAfrican literature and the future /$fedited by Gbemisola Adeoti 210 1$aDakar :$cCODESRIA, Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa,$d[2015] 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (114 p.) 225 0 $aAfrica and the challenges of the twenty-first century 225 1 $aCodesria book series 300 $a"This book is a product of the CODESRIA 13th General Assembly, 2011"--Page opposite title page. 311 $a2-86978-633-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aCover; 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; Introduction 327 $aSoyinka 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 Dissidence 327 $aExile 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; Conclusion 327 $aReferencesBack cover 410 0$aCodesria book series. 606 $aAfrican literature 615 0$aAfrican literature. 702 $aAdeoti$b Gbemisola 712 02$aCodesria, 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910797929303321 996 $aAfrican literature and the future$93791992 997 $aUNINA