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African literatures and beyond : a florilegium / / edited by Bernth Lindfors and Geoffrey V. Davis ; cover image, Brenda Lindfors, Gordon Collier
| African literatures and beyond : a florilegium / / edited by Bernth Lindfors and Geoffrey V. Davis ; cover image, Brenda Lindfors, Gordon Collier |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam, Netherlands ; ; New York : , : Rodopi, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (427 p.) |
| Disciplina | 809.896 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
LindforsBrenda
DavisGeoffrey V. <1943-2018.> LindforsBernth CollierGordon |
| Collana | Cross/cultures |
| Soggetto topico | African literature - History and criticism |
| ISBN | 94-012-0989-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Material -- Cultural Studies, Power, and the Idea of the Hegemonic in Wole Soyinka’s Works / Mpalive Hangson Msiska -- Interpreting the Interpreters: The Narratives of the Postcolony in Wole Soyinka’s The Interpreters / Sola Adeyemi -- The Enduring Relevance of Kobina Sekyi’s The Blinkards in Twenty-First-Century Ghana / Awo Mana Asiedu -- The Agony and the Ecstasy: Sierra Leonean Dramatists’ Confrontation with the Sierra Leonean Landscape / Eustace Palmer -- The Rev. Joseph Jackson Fuller: A ‘Native’ Evangelist and ‘Black’ Identity in the Cameroons / Gareth Griffiths -- A Modest Plant, Easily Crushed: Radio Drama in Blin, Eritrea / Jane Plastow -- Through Determination to Happiness?: Eastern African Slavery in Life and Literature / Pia Thielmann -- “Shine your light, Zimbabwe” / Geoffrey V. Davis -- From Mqhayi to Sole: Four Poems on the Sinking of the Troopship Mendi / Chris Dunton -- Fieldwork as Translation: Linnaeus’ Apostle Anders Sparrman and the Hottentot Perspective / Raoul J. Granqvist -- Orality and Performance: A Source of Pan-African Social Self / Kofi Anyidoho -- Africans and Ireland History, Society, and the Black Nexus / Innes C.L. and Collier Gordon -- Ira Aldridge in Stockholm / Bernth Lindfors -- “Who’ll get my library after I’m gone?”: An Interview with the Septuagenarian Afro-German Africanist Theodor Wonja Michael / Anne Adams -- Into the Heart of Whiteness: Performing African Moon in Krefeld: Gabriel Gbadamosi in Conversation / Christine Matzke -- Von Jenseits des Meeres: Romantic and Revolutionary Visions of Caribbean History / Eckhard Breitinger -- “But it will have to be a new English”: A Comparative Discussion of the ‘Nativization’ of English among Afro- and Indo-English authors / Leif Lorentzon -- African Literature Today and African Theatre The James Gibbs Connection / Currey James and Lynn Taylor -- He Spoke Truth – Quietly / Kofi Anyidoho -- The Carwash, Clifton Moor, York: (For James and Patience) / Jack Mapanje -- Crosscut / Charles R. Larson -- Kariba’s Last Stand / Robert Fraser -- Odùduwà, Don’t Go!: A One-Act Play For Col. Adékúnlé Fajuyi, who gave his life / Femi Osofisan -- Mosquito!: Or, Addition, Vernacular, or Rat? A Railway for Freetown / Martin Banham -- James Gibbs’s Pinteresque Diversion / C.L. Innes -- Notes on Contributors. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790992003321 |
| Amsterdam, Netherlands ; ; New York : , : Rodopi, , 2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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African literatures and beyond : a florilegium / / edited by Bernth Lindfors and Geoffrey V. Davis ; cover image, Brenda Lindfors, Gordon Collier
| African literatures and beyond : a florilegium / / edited by Bernth Lindfors and Geoffrey V. Davis ; cover image, Brenda Lindfors, Gordon Collier |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam, Netherlands ; ; New York : , : Rodopi, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (427 p.) |
| Disciplina | 809.896 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
LindforsBrenda
DavisGeoffrey V. <1943-2018.> LindforsBernth CollierGordon |
| Collana | Cross/cultures |
| Soggetto topico | African literature - History and criticism |
| ISBN | 94-012-0989-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Material -- Cultural Studies, Power, and the Idea of the Hegemonic in Wole Soyinka’s Works / Mpalive Hangson Msiska -- Interpreting the Interpreters: The Narratives of the Postcolony in Wole Soyinka’s The Interpreters / Sola Adeyemi -- The Enduring Relevance of Kobina Sekyi’s The Blinkards in Twenty-First-Century Ghana / Awo Mana Asiedu -- The Agony and the Ecstasy: Sierra Leonean Dramatists’ Confrontation with the Sierra Leonean Landscape / Eustace Palmer -- The Rev. Joseph Jackson Fuller: A ‘Native’ Evangelist and ‘Black’ Identity in the Cameroons / Gareth Griffiths -- A Modest Plant, Easily Crushed: Radio Drama in Blin, Eritrea / Jane Plastow -- Through Determination to Happiness?: Eastern African Slavery in Life and Literature / Pia Thielmann -- “Shine your light, Zimbabwe” / Geoffrey V. Davis -- From Mqhayi to Sole: Four Poems on the Sinking of the Troopship Mendi / Chris Dunton -- Fieldwork as Translation: Linnaeus’ Apostle Anders Sparrman and the Hottentot Perspective / Raoul J. Granqvist -- Orality and Performance: A Source of Pan-African Social Self / Kofi Anyidoho -- Africans and Ireland History, Society, and the Black Nexus / Innes C.L. and Collier Gordon -- Ira Aldridge in Stockholm / Bernth Lindfors -- “Who’ll get my library after I’m gone?”: An Interview with the Septuagenarian Afro-German Africanist Theodor Wonja Michael / Anne Adams -- Into the Heart of Whiteness: Performing African Moon in Krefeld: Gabriel Gbadamosi in Conversation / Christine Matzke -- Von Jenseits des Meeres: Romantic and Revolutionary Visions of Caribbean History / Eckhard Breitinger -- “But it will have to be a new English”: A Comparative Discussion of the ‘Nativization’ of English among Afro- and Indo-English authors / Leif Lorentzon -- African Literature Today and African Theatre The James Gibbs Connection / Currey James and Lynn Taylor -- He Spoke Truth – Quietly / Kofi Anyidoho -- The Carwash, Clifton Moor, York: (For James and Patience) / Jack Mapanje -- Crosscut / Charles R. Larson -- Kariba’s Last Stand / Robert Fraser -- Odùduwà, Don’t Go!: A One-Act Play For Col. Adékúnlé Fajuyi, who gave his life / Femi Osofisan -- Mosquito!: Or, Addition, Vernacular, or Rat? A Railway for Freetown / Martin Banham -- James Gibbs’s Pinteresque Diversion / C.L. Innes -- Notes on Contributors. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910816699903321 |
| Amsterdam, Netherlands ; ; New York : , : Rodopi, , 2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Of minstrelsy and masks [[electronic resource] ] : the legacy of Ezenwa-Ohaeto in Nigerian writing / / edited by Christine Matzke, Aderemi Raji-Oyelade, Geoffrey V. Davis
| Of minstrelsy and masks [[electronic resource] ] : the legacy of Ezenwa-Ohaeto in Nigerian writing / / edited by Christine Matzke, Aderemi Raji-Oyelade, Geoffrey V. Davis |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (383 p.) |
| Disciplina | 820.809669 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
DavisGeoffrey V. <1943-2018.>
Ezenwa-Ohaeto <1958-2005.> MatzkeChristine RajiRemi <1961-> |
| Collana | Matatu |
| Soggetto topico |
Critics - Nigeria
Nigerian literature (English) - 20th century - History and criticism Poets, Nigerian - 20th century |
| ISBN |
94-012-0410-1
1-4294-8140-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | TABLE OF CONTENTS; Illustrations; Frontispiece; Preface; Raising a Chant; SECTION 1: IN MEMORIAM; SECTION 2: POETRY & FICTION; SECTION 3: THE MAN, THE MINSTREL, THE MOMENT; SECTION 4: INTERVIEWS; SECTION 5: EZENWA-OHAETO: CRITICAL EVALUATIONS; SECTION 6: CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES ON NIGERIAN LITERATURE; APPENDIX; Notes on Contributors and Editors; Notes for Contributors |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778157003321 |
| Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2006 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Zimbabwean transitions [[electronic resource] ] : essays on Zimbabwean literature in English, Ndebele and Shona / / edited by Mbongeni Z. Malaba and Geoffrey V. Davis
| Zimbabwean transitions [[electronic resource] ] : essays on Zimbabwean literature in English, Ndebele and Shona / / edited by Mbongeni Z. Malaba and Geoffrey V. Davis |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; New York, NY, : Rodopi, 2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (269 p.) |
| Disciplina | 809.8896891 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
DavisGeoffrey V. <1943-2018.>
MalabaMbongeni Z |
| Collana | Matatu |
| Soggetto topico |
African literature
Zimbabwean literature |
| ISBN |
94-012-0566-3
1-4356-4070-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Zimbabwean Transitions; TABLE OF CONTENTS; Introduction; Great Zimbabwe in Rhodesian Fiction; Knowing Native, Going Native; Representing the Past in the Present; The Attitude to Tradition in Ndebele Theoretical Writing; The Significance of Ndebele Historical Fiction; The Changing Roles of Women in siNdebele Literature; The Portrayal of Women in Stanley Nyamfukudza's Works; Coming Unstuck; The Fourth Dimension; Modern Shona Literature as a Site of Struggle, 1956-2000; From a "Puny Domesticity" to Topical Commitment; "Spirit of Place"; The Zimbabwe International Book Fair (ZIBF)
"You need to have the idea, the vision, and the passion"Words of Praise for Yvonne Vera; BOOK REVIEWS; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS AND EDITORS |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781836403321 |
| Amsterdam ; ; New York, NY, : Rodopi, 2007 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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