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Counter discourse in African literature / / Smith and Ce, editors



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Titolo: Counter discourse in African literature / / Smith and Ce, editors Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Oxford, [England] : , : African Library of Critical Writing, , 2014
©[2014]
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (156 p.)
Disciplina: 808.80326
Soggetto topico: African literature
Soggetto geografico: Africa Literary collections
Persona (resp. second.): Smith
C. E
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Introduction; Vocal Rejoinders; Chapter One - Utter(ing) Silences; Chapter Two - Reworking the Canon; Chapter Three - An African Antigone; Contemporary Modernity; Chapter 4 - Cultural Translation; Chapter Four - Poetics of Diaspora; Chapter Five - The Rhetoric of Despair; Chapter Six - Memory and Trauma; Chapter Seven - Ethno-lingual issues; Notes and Bibliography; Back cover
Sommario/riassunto: This volume charts the widening frontiers of black literary aesthetics using the prose and dramatic fictions of writers from Africa and the African diaspora. The chapters come in two interactive phases of current critical discourses involving rejoinders from past-present concerns and issues of cultural and contemporary modernity. These studies stress the argument that African literature is hardly discussed outside contemporary history and that the reason for the apparent disconnection among groups in Africa and the diaspora can be traced to the disparate elements within the continent and diasp
Titolo autorizzato: Counter discourse in African literature  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 978-36037-4-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910786458603321
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