The Columbia guide to East African literature in English since 1945 [[electronic resource] /] / Simon Gikandi and Evan Mwangi |
Autore | Gikandi Simon |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Columbia University Press, c2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (219 p.) |
Disciplina | 820.9/9676 |
Altri autori (Persone) | MwangiEvan |
Collana | The Columbia guides to literature since 1945 |
Soggetto topico |
East African literature (English) - History and criticism
East African literature (English) - 20th century - History and criticism |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-231-50064-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface / Gikandi, Simon -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology of Major Political Events -- Introduction: East African Literature in English from 1945 to the Present / Gikandi, Simon -- Authors and Topics A-Z -- A - L -- M - P -- R - Z -- Selected Bibliography -- Index |
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The Columbia guide to East African literature in English since 1945 [[electronic resource] /] / Simon Gikandi and Evan Mwangi |
Autore | Gikandi Simon |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Columbia University Press, c2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (219 p.) |
Disciplina | 820.9/9676 |
Altri autori (Persone) | MwangiEvan |
Collana | The Columbia guides to literature since 1945 |
Soggetto topico |
East African literature (English) - History and criticism
East African literature (English) - 20th century - History and criticism |
ISBN | 0-231-50064-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface / Gikandi, Simon -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology of Major Political Events -- Introduction: East African Literature in English from 1945 to the Present / Gikandi, Simon -- Authors and Topics A-Z -- A - L -- M - P -- R - Z -- Selected Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777929603321 |
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New York, : Columbia University Press, c2007 | ||
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The Columbia guide to East African literature in English since 1945 [[electronic resource] /] / Simon Gikandi and Evan Mwangi |
Autore | Gikandi Simon |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Columbia University Press, c2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (219 p.) |
Disciplina | 820.9/9676 |
Altri autori (Persone) | MwangiEvan |
Collana | The Columbia guides to literature since 1945 |
Soggetto topico |
East African literature (English) - History and criticism
East African literature (English) - 20th century - History and criticism |
ISBN | 0-231-50064-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface / Gikandi, Simon -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology of Major Political Events -- Introduction: East African Literature in English from 1945 to the Present / Gikandi, Simon -- Authors and Topics A-Z -- A - L -- M - P -- R - Z -- Selected Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910820883503321 |
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New York, : Columbia University Press, c2007 | ||
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Ngugi wa Thiong'o / / Simon Gikandi [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Gikandi Simon |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2000 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xii, 328 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 823 |
Collana | Cambridge studies in African and Caribbean literature |
ISBN |
1-139-08571-9
0-511-55411-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: reading texts and contexts -- Narrative and nationalist desire: early short stories and The river between -- Educating colonial subjects: the "emergency stories" and Weep not, child -- Representing decolonization: A grain of wheat -- The poetics of cultural production: the later short stories and Petals of blood -- Performance and power: the plays -- The prisonhouse of culture: Detained and Devil on the cross -- The work of art in exile: Matigari -- Writing freedom: essays and criticism -- Conclusion. |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996248126703316 |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2000 | ||
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Slavery and the culture of taste [[electronic resource] /] / Simon Gikandi |
Autore | Gikandi Simon |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2011] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
Soggetto topico |
Slavery in literature
Slavery - Moral and ethical aspects |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-283-16902-9
9786613169020 1-4008-4011-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Overture: Sensibility in the Age of Slavery -- 2. Intersections: Taste, Slavery, and the Modern Self -- 3. Unspeakable Events: Slavery and White Self-Fashioning -- 4. Close Encounters: Taste and the Taint of Slavery -- 5. "Popping Sorrow": Loss and the Transformation of Servitude -- 6. The Ontology of Play: Mimicry and the Counterculture of Taste -- Coda: Three Fragments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910456972203321 |
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Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2011] | ||
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Slavery and the culture of taste [[electronic resource] /] / Simon Gikandi |
Autore | Gikandi Simon |
Edizione | [Core Textbook] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2011] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
Disciplina | 306.3/6209033 |
Soggetto topico |
Slavery in literature
Slavery - Moral and ethical aspects |
Soggetto non controllato |
Africa
American plantocracy Barack Obama Britain Christopher Codrington James Tallmadge Jr Missouri W. E. B. Du Bois West Indies William Beckford antebellum South art beauty black difference black self black slaves blacks bondage bourgeois culture consumption culture enslavement festival freedom identity involuntary servitude modern identity race selfhood sensibility slave money slavery slaves sorrow songs statehood sugar colonies taste violence |
ISBN |
1-283-16902-9
9786613169020 1-4008-4011-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Overture: Sensibility in the Age of Slavery -- 2. Intersections: Taste, Slavery, and the Modern Self -- 3. Unspeakable Events: Slavery and White Self-Fashioning -- 4. Close Encounters: Taste and the Taint of Slavery -- 5. "Popping Sorrow": Loss and the Transformation of Servitude -- 6. The Ontology of Play: Mimicry and the Counterculture of Taste -- Coda: Three Fragments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781476503321 |
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Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2011] | ||
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Slavery and the culture of taste / / Simon Gikandi |
Autore | Gikandi Simon |
Edizione | [Core Textbook] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2011] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
Disciplina | 306.3/6209033 |
Soggetto topico |
Slavery in literature
Slavery - Moral and ethical aspects |
Soggetto non controllato |
Africa
American plantocracy Barack Obama Britain Christopher Codrington James Tallmadge Jr Missouri W. E. B. Du Bois West Indies William Beckford antebellum South art beauty black difference black self black people bondage bourgeois culture consumption culture enslaved persons enslavement festival freedom identity involuntary servitude modern identity race selfhood sensibility slavery sorrow songs statehood sugar colonies taste violence |
ISBN |
1-283-16902-9
9786613169020 1-4008-4011-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Overture: Sensibility in the Age of Slavery -- 2. Intersections: Taste, Slavery, and the Modern Self -- 3. Unspeakable Events: Slavery and White Self-Fashioning -- 4. Close Encounters: Taste and the Taint of Slavery -- 5. "Popping Sorrow": Loss and the Transformation of Servitude -- 6. The Ontology of Play: Mimicry and the Counterculture of Taste -- Coda: Three Fragments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996247974403316 |
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Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2011] | ||
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Slavery and the culture of taste / / Simon Gikandi |
Autore | Gikandi Simon |
Edizione | [Core Textbook] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2011] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
Disciplina | 306.3/6209033 |
Soggetto topico |
Slavery in literature
Slavery - Moral and ethical aspects |
Soggetto non controllato |
Africa
American plantocracy Barack Obama Britain Christopher Codrington James Tallmadge Jr Missouri W. E. B. Du Bois West Indies William Beckford antebellum South art beauty black difference black self black people bondage bourgeois culture consumption culture enslaved persons enslavement festival freedom identity involuntary servitude modern identity race selfhood sensibility slavery sorrow songs statehood sugar colonies taste violence |
ISBN |
1-283-16902-9
9786613169020 1-4008-4011-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Overture: Sensibility in the Age of Slavery -- 2. Intersections: Taste, Slavery, and the Modern Self -- 3. Unspeakable Events: Slavery and White Self-Fashioning -- 4. Close Encounters: Taste and the Taint of Slavery -- 5. "Popping Sorrow": Loss and the Transformation of Servitude -- 6. The Ontology of Play: Mimicry and the Counterculture of Taste -- Coda: Three Fragments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910822293403321 |
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Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2011] | ||
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Writing in Limbo : Modernism and Caribbean Literature / / Simon Gikandi |
Autore | Gikandi Simon |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Ithaca, NY : , : Cornell University Press, , [2018] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (260 pages) |
Disciplina | 823 |
Soggetto topico |
Caribbean fiction (English) - History and criticism
West Indian fiction (English) - History and criticism Modernism (Literature) - Caribbean Area Modernism (Literature) - West Indies |
ISBN | 1-5017-2293-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Modernism and the Origins of Caribbean Literature -- 1. Caribbean Modernist Discourse : Writing, Exile, and Tradition -- 2. From Exile to Nationalism: The Early Novels of George Lamming -- 3. Beyond the Kala-Pani: The Trinidad Novels of Samuel Selvon -- 4. The Deformation Of Modernism: The Allegory of History in Carpentier's El siglo de las luces -- 5. Modernism and the Masks of History: The Novels of Paule Marshall -- 6. Writing after Colonialism: Crick Crack, Monkey and Beka Lamb -- 7. Narration at the Postcolonial Moment: History and Representation in Abeng -- Conclusion -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910272349603321 |
Gikandi Simon
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Ithaca, NY : , : Cornell University Press, , [2018] | ||
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Writing in Limbo : modernism and Caribbean literature / / Simon Gikandi |
Autore | Gikandi Simon |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Ithaca : , : Cornell University Press, , [2018] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (273 pages) |
Disciplina | 809.9112 |
Soggetto topico | Modernism (Literature) |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910682544003321 |
Gikandi Simon
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Ithaca : , : Cornell University Press, , [2018] | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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