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Intertextuality in contemporary African literature : looking inward / / Ode Ogede



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Autore: Ogede Ode Visualizza persona
Titolo: Intertextuality in contemporary African literature : looking inward / / Ode Ogede Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Lanham, Md., : Lexington Books, 2011
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (249 p.)
Disciplina: 809.896
Soggetto topico: African literature - 20th century - History and criticism
Intertextuality
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: When an elephant rustles the bush- -- Is a picture still worth a thousand words? from documentary to investigative realism : Cyprian Ekwensi's Jagua Nana and Flora Nwapa's One is enough -- Lampoon, or the power of savage satire, and the visual object of distaste : Chinua Achebe's A man of the people and Ayi Kwei Armah's The beautyful ones are not yet born -- On the politics of love : Chinua Achebe's No longer at ease and Bessie Head's Maru -- Masking the infrastuctural frame : Christopher Okigbo and his acolytes (Labyrinths' aural and thematic echoes in Okinba Launko's Minted coins and Chimalum Nwankwo's The heart in the womb) -- Conclusion: coming out of shadow : eye on the tradition, looking for consequence.
Sommario/riassunto: Intellectual exchange among African creative writers is the subject of this highly innovative and wide-ranging look at several forms of intertextuality on the continent. Focusing on the issue of the availability of old canonical texts of African literature as a creative resource, this study throws light on how African authors adapt, reinterpret, and redeploy existing texts in the formulation of new ones. Contemporary African writers are taking advantage of and extending the resources available in the existing native literary tradition. But the field of inter-ethnic/trans-national African liter
Titolo autorizzato: Intertextuality in contemporary African literature  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-22453-4
9786613224538
0-7391-6448-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910812010303321
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