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Titolo: Texts, tasks, and theories [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Tobias Robert Klein, Ulrike Auga & Viola Prüschenk Visualizza cluster
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
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ISBN: 94-012-0564-7
1-4356-4461-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910781810303321
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Serie: Matatu ; ; no. 35. Versions and subversions in African literatures ; ; 3. Humboldt contributions ; ; v. 3.