LEADER 04261nam 2200673 a 450 001 9910807927203321 005 20240410155312.0 010 $a94-012-0755-0 024 7 $a10.1163/9789401207553 035 $a(CKB)2550000001046748 035 $a(EBL)3008321 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000836182 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12357647 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000836182 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10997287 035 $a(PQKB)10171758 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3008321 035 $a(OCoLC)834602632$z(OCoLC)975208483$z(OCoLC)975241972$z(OCoLC)988557357 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789401207553 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3008321 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10660132 035 $a(OCoLC)923622484 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001046748 100 $a20120627d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aStyle in African literature$b[electronic resource] $eessays on literary stylistics and narrative styles /$fedited by J.K.S. Makokha, Ogone John Obiero and Russell West-Pavlov 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAmsterdam ;$aNew York $cEditions Rodopi$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (444 p.) 225 0$aInternationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ;$v154 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a90-420-3476-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $apt. I. General perspectives -- pt. II. Perspectives on fiction -- pt. III. Perspectives on orature and poetry -- pt. IV. Perspectives on drama and theatre. 330 $aPostcolonial and contemporary African literatures have always been marked by an acute sensitivity to the politics of language, an attentiveness inscribed in the linguistic fabric of their own modes of expression. It is curious however, that despite the prevalence of a much-touted ?linguistic turn? in twentieth century theory and cultural production, language has frequently been neglected by literary studies in general. Even more curiously, postcolonial literary studies, an erstwhile emergent and now established discipline which has from the outset contained important elements of linguistic critique, has eschewed any sustained engagement with this topic. This absence is salient in the study of African literatures, despite, for instance, the prominence of orature in the African literary tradition right up to the present day, and sporadic meditations on the part of such luminaries as Achebe and Ng?g?. Beyond this, however, there has been little scholarly work attuned to the multifarious aspects of language and linguistic politics in the study of African literature. The present volume aims to rectify such lacunae by making a substantial interdisciplinary and transcultural contribution to the gradual reinstatement of the ?linguistic turn? in African literary studies. The volume focuses variously on postcolonial and transcultural African literatures, areas of literary production where the confluence of several languages, whether indigenous and (post)colonial in the first case, and local and global in the second case, appears to be a central and decisive factor in the formation and transformation of the continent and its peoples? cultural identities. 410 0$aInternationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft$v154. 606 $aAfrican literature (English)$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAfrican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAfrican literature$y21st century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aStyle, Literary 615 0$aAfrican literature (English)$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAfrican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAfrican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aStyle, Literary. 676 $a820.996 701 $aMakokha$b J. K. S$01596442 701 $aObiero$b Ogone John$01656988 701 $aWest-Pavlov$b Russell$f1964-$0606939 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807927203321 996 $aStyle in African literature$94010142 997 $aUNINA