Texts, tasks, and theories [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Tobias Robert Klein, Ulrike Auga & Viola Prüschenk

• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (241 p.)
• Disciplina: 808; 809.896
• Soggetto topico: African literature - History and criticism; Postcolonialism in literature; Literature, Modern - 20th century - History and criticism
• Altri autori: KleinTobias Robert AugaUlrike PrüschenkViola
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 CONTRIBUTORS
• Sommario/riassunto: African 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 a
• Titolo autorizzato: Texts, tasks, and theories
• ISBN: 94-012-0564-7; 1-4356-4461-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910781810303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Matatu ; ; no. 35.; Versions and subversions in African literatures ; ; 3.; Humboldt contributions ; ; v. 3.