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African literature and the future / / edited by Gbemisola Adeoti
| African literature and the future / / edited by Gbemisola Adeoti |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Dakar : , : CODESRIA, Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, , [2015] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (114 p.) |
| Collana |
Africa and the challenges of the twenty-first century
Codesria book series |
| Soggetto topico | African literature |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 2-86978-672-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; About the Contributors; Introduction. Present Tension in Future Tenses: Re-writing Africa into the Twenty-first Century; 1. Orality, Modernity and African Development: Myth as Dialogue of Civilisations; Introduction; Myth-Orality Nexus and the 'Other' Modernity; Myth, Modernity and the Development Question in Africa; Africa, Myth and the Dialogue of Civilisations Narrative; Re-Reading Myth as Text; Conclusion; References; 2. Requiem for Absolutism: Soyinka and the Re-visioning of Governance in Twenty-first Century Africa; Introduction
Soyinka and the Absolute State The Beatification of Area Boy; King Baabu; Concluding Remarks; Notes; References; 3. A Critical Discourse Evaluation of Decolonisation and Democratisation: Issues in Africa as Exemplified in Soyinka's Non-fictional Texts; Introduction; Theory and Methods of Post-colonialism; The Non-fictional Writings of Soyinka; Lexical Indexicalisation of Political Actors; Conclusion; References; 4. Power, Artistic Agency and Poetic Discourse: Poetry as Cultural Critique in Africa; Introduction; Literary Trajectory; Nation, Power and Dissidence Exile and Dispersal: Post-Nation Anxiety Conclusion; Notes; References; 5. African Literature and the Anxiety of Being in the Twenty-first Century; Introduction; Conceptualising African Literature; African Literature in the Twenty-first Century; Towards the Future; Conclusion; References; 6. A Critical Analysis of Prophetic Myths in the Selected Fiction of Ben Okri; Introduction; Journey as Archetypal Motif; In Search of the Future: Mythical Paradigms as Prophecy in In Arcadia; Unorthodox Archetypes as Predictive Myth; Unorthodox Archetypal Statements; Unorthodox Archetypal Sights; Conclusion ReferencesBack cover |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910460360803321 |
| Dakar : , : CODESRIA, Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, , [2015] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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African literature and the future / / edited by Gbemisola Adeoti
| African literature and the future / / edited by Gbemisola Adeoti |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Dakar : , : CODESRIA, Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, , [2015] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (114 p.) |
| Collana |
Africa and the challenges of the twenty-first century
Codesria book series |
| Soggetto topico | African literature |
| ISBN | 2-86978-672-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; About the Contributors; Introduction. Present Tension in Future Tenses: Re-writing Africa into the Twenty-first Century; 1. Orality, Modernity and African Development: Myth as Dialogue of Civilisations; Introduction; Myth-Orality Nexus and the 'Other' Modernity; Myth, Modernity and the Development Question in Africa; Africa, Myth and the Dialogue of Civilisations Narrative; Re-Reading Myth as Text; Conclusion; References; 2. Requiem for Absolutism: Soyinka and the Re-visioning of Governance in Twenty-first Century Africa; Introduction
Soyinka and the Absolute State The Beatification of Area Boy; King Baabu; Concluding Remarks; Notes; References; 3. A Critical Discourse Evaluation of Decolonisation and Democratisation: Issues in Africa as Exemplified in Soyinka's Non-fictional Texts; Introduction; Theory and Methods of Post-colonialism; The Non-fictional Writings of Soyinka; Lexical Indexicalisation of Political Actors; Conclusion; References; 4. Power, Artistic Agency and Poetic Discourse: Poetry as Cultural Critique in Africa; Introduction; Literary Trajectory; Nation, Power and Dissidence Exile and Dispersal: Post-Nation Anxiety Conclusion; Notes; References; 5. African Literature and the Anxiety of Being in the Twenty-first Century; Introduction; Conceptualising African Literature; African Literature in the Twenty-first Century; Towards the Future; Conclusion; References; 6. A Critical Analysis of Prophetic Myths in the Selected Fiction of Ben Okri; Introduction; Journey as Archetypal Motif; In Search of the Future: Mythical Paradigms as Prophecy in In Arcadia; Unorthodox Archetypes as Predictive Myth; Unorthodox Archetypal Statements; Unorthodox Archetypal Sights; Conclusion ReferencesBack cover |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910797929303321 |
| Dakar : , : CODESRIA, Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, , [2015] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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African literature and the future / / edited by Gbemisola Adeoti
| African literature and the future / / edited by Gbemisola Adeoti |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Dakar : , : CODESRIA, Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, , [2015] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (114 p.) |
| Collana |
Africa and the challenges of the twenty-first century
Codesria book series |
| Soggetto topico | African literature |
| ISBN | 2-86978-672-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; About the Contributors; Introduction. Present Tension in Future Tenses: Re-writing Africa into the Twenty-first Century; 1. Orality, Modernity and African Development: Myth as Dialogue of Civilisations; Introduction; Myth-Orality Nexus and the 'Other' Modernity; Myth, Modernity and the Development Question in Africa; Africa, Myth and the Dialogue of Civilisations Narrative; Re-Reading Myth as Text; Conclusion; References; 2. Requiem for Absolutism: Soyinka and the Re-visioning of Governance in Twenty-first Century Africa; Introduction
Soyinka and the Absolute State The Beatification of Area Boy; King Baabu; Concluding Remarks; Notes; References; 3. A Critical Discourse Evaluation of Decolonisation and Democratisation: Issues in Africa as Exemplified in Soyinka's Non-fictional Texts; Introduction; Theory and Methods of Post-colonialism; The Non-fictional Writings of Soyinka; Lexical Indexicalisation of Political Actors; Conclusion; References; 4. Power, Artistic Agency and Poetic Discourse: Poetry as Cultural Critique in Africa; Introduction; Literary Trajectory; Nation, Power and Dissidence Exile and Dispersal: Post-Nation Anxiety Conclusion; Notes; References; 5. African Literature and the Anxiety of Being in the Twenty-first Century; Introduction; Conceptualising African Literature; African Literature in the Twenty-first Century; Towards the Future; Conclusion; References; 6. A Critical Analysis of Prophetic Myths in the Selected Fiction of Ben Okri; Introduction; Journey as Archetypal Motif; In Search of the Future: Mythical Paradigms as Prophecy in In Arcadia; Unorthodox Archetypes as Predictive Myth; Unorthodox Archetypal Statements; Unorthodox Archetypal Sights; Conclusion ReferencesBack cover |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910824096603321 |
| Dakar : , : CODESRIA, Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, , [2015] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Intellectuals and African development : pretension and resistance in African politics / / edited by Bjorn Beckman and Gbemisola Remi Adeoti, editors
| Intellectuals and African development : pretension and resistance in African politics / / edited by Bjorn Beckman and Gbemisola Remi Adeoti, editors |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Dakar ; ; London ; ; New York, : Codesria Books in association with Zed Books, 2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (185 p.) |
| Disciplina | 320.96 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
BeckmanBjorn <1938->
AdeotiGbemisola |
| Collana | Africa in the new millennium |
| Soggetto topico |
Political culture - Africa
International agencies - Africa |
| ISBN |
1-350-22078-7
1-84813-148-8 1-281-21604-6 9786611216047 |
| Classificazione | 15.80 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Predicament and response: an introduction / BjöRn Beckman and Gbemisola Adeoti -- Part 1. Intellectuals, writers and soldiers -- Chapter 1. Psychopaths in power: the collapse of the African dream in A Play of Giants / Olusegun, Adekoya -- Chapter 2. Re-establishing the basis of social order in Africa: a reflection on Achebe's reformist agenda and Ngugi's Marxist aesthetics / M. S. C. Okolo -- Chapter 3. Narrating the green gods: the (auto) biographies of Nigerian military rulers / Gbemisola Adeoti -- Part 2. Students, youths and people -- Chapter 4. Ambiguous transitions: mediating citizenship among youth in Cameroon / Jude Fokwang -- Chapter 5. Student radicalism and the national project: the Nigerian student movement / Björn Beckman -- Chapter 6. Transnational governance and the pacification of youth: civic education and disempowerment in Malawi / Harri Englund -- Chapter 7. Identity and knowledge production in the fourth generation / Nana Akua Anyidoho -- Contributors -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910345140103321 |
| Dakar ; ; London ; ; New York, : Codesria Books in association with Zed Books, 2006 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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