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Titolo: |
Texts, tasks, and theories [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Tobias Robert Klein, Ulrike Auga & Viola Prüschenk
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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 | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Altri autori: |
KleinTobias Robert
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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.: | 9910451610503321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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