Africa's Narrative Geographies [[electronic resource] ] : Charting the Intersections of Geocriticism and Postcolonial Studies / / by D. Crowley |
Autore | Crowley D |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2015.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (X, 192 p.) |
Disciplina | 809/.8996 |
Collana | Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies |
Soggetto topico |
Literature, Modern—20th century
Literature African literature Fiction Literature—History and criticism Literature—Philosophy Twentieth-Century Literature Postcolonial/World Literature African Literature Literary History Literary Theory |
ISBN | 1-137-51899-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction. Charting a path for geocriticism -- My Black land : Senghor's construction of Africa -- Place and scale in Ngugi's universal garden -- Imagining the global village : Bessie Head's narratives of migration and boundaries -- Cosmopolitan Somalia : place and identity in Farah's Maps and Links -- Half slum, half paradise : Abani's global cities -- Conclusion. The landscape of geocritical inquiry : finding common ground for geocriticism and ecocriticism. |
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An African Philosophy of Personhood, Morality, and Politics / / by Motsamai Molefe |
Autore | Molefe Motsamai |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2019.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (185 pages) |
Disciplina |
128
199.6 |
Soggetto topico |
Philosophy, Asian
Ethnology—Africa African literature Non-Western Philosophy African Culture African Literature |
ISBN | 3-030-15561-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1: Introduction -- 2: A Conceptual Mapping of Personhood -- 3: An Exposition of Personhood as Moral Theory -- 4: Personhood: Partiality or Impartiality -- 5: Personhood and Options in African Moral Thought -- 6: Personhood and Dignity in African Philosophy -- 7: Personhood as a Political Theory of Duties. |
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Molefe Motsamai
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Animals and Desire in South African Fiction : Biopolitics and the Resistance to Colonization / / by Jason D. Price |
Autore | Price Jason D |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2017.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
Disciplina | 809.6 |
Collana | Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature |
Soggetto topico |
African literature
Literature, Modern - 20th century Literature, Modern - 21st century Literature Critical theory African Literature Contemporary Literature World Literature Critical Theory |
ISBN | 3-319-56726-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Sameness and Difference in the “New” South Africa: Desire and Nonhuman Resistance -- Space and Desire on the (non)Farm: the Return of the Same in Disgrace and The Devil’s Chimney -- Ways of Desiring: Postcolonial Animals and Affect in The Whale Caller -- Consuming the Other and the Ethics of “Eating:” Dominant Desire in Tanuki Ichiban and The Mother of All Eating -- Desire and the Law: Creative Resistance in The Reluctant Passenger and The Heart of Redness -- Transformative Encounters: Desiring Aliens & Hospitality in District 9. |
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Price Jason D
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Art, Creativity, and Politics in Africa and the Diaspora / / edited by Abimbola Adelakun, Toyin Falola |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2018.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
Disciplina | 960 |
Collana | African Histories and Modernities |
Soggetto topico |
Africa—History
World history Ethnology—Africa Africa—Politics and government African literature African History World History, Global and Transnational History African Culture African Politics African Literature |
ISBN | 3-319-91310-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction -- 2. Rewriting Algeria: Transcultural Kinship and Anticolonial Revolution in Kateb Yacine's L'Homme aux sandales de caoutchou -- 3. Revolution and Revolt: Identitarian Space, Magic, and the Land in Decolonial Latin American and African Writing -- 4. Family Politics: Negotiating the Family Unit as a Creative Force in Chigozie Obioma's The Fishermen and Ben Okri's The Famished Road -- 5. Auteuring Nollywood: Rethinking the Movie Director and the Idea of Creativity in the Nigerian Film Industry -- 6. Nollywood in Rio: An Exploration of Brazilian Audience Perception of Nigerian Cinema -- 7. Re-Producing Self, Community, and "Naija" in Nigerian Diaspora Films: Soul Sisters in the United States and Man on the Ground in South Africa -- 8. A Single Story: African Women as Staged in US Theatre -- 9. Silêncio: Black Bodies, Black Characters, and the Black Political Persona in the Work of the Teatro Negro Group Cia dos Comuns -- 10. New Orleans: America's Creative Crescent -- 11. The Hashtag as Archive: Internet Memes in Nigeria's Social Media Election -- 12. Black Creativity in Jamaica and Its Global Influences: 1930–1987 -- 13. Ethics and Aesthetic Creativity: A Critical Reflection on the Moral Purpose of African Art -- 14. From Saartjie to Queen Bey: Black Female Artists and the Global Cultural Industry. |
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Becoming an African Diaspora in Australia [[electronic resource] ] : Language, Culture, Identity / / by F. Ndhlovu |
Autore | Ndhlovu F |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2014.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (241 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.896/094 |
Soggetto topico |
African literature
African languages Sociolinguistics Applied linguistics Ethnology—Africa Ethnicity African Literature African Languages Applied Linguistics African Culture Ethnicity Studies |
ISBN | 1-137-41432-4 |
Classificazione | LAN009050SOC007000SOC056000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyrihgt; Dedication; Contets; List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations and Acronyms; 1 Introduction and Conceptual Issues; 2 Language and Identity in Australian Immigration Policy; 3 Language(s) and Nationality: Prime Markers of Diaspora Identities?; 4 Belonging and Attitudes Towards Migrant Heritage Languages; 5 Too Tall, Too Dark to Be Australian; 6 Being and Becoming Australian; 7 Language Practices in Regional Settings - The Language Nesting Model; 8 Conclusion: Alternative Imaginings of Diasporas - Insights from Decoloniality
AppendicesNotes; References; Index |
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Beyond the Postcolonial [[electronic resource] ] : World Englishes Literature / / by E. Dawson Varughese |
Autore | Varughese E. Dawson |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (252 p.) |
Disciplina |
427
820.9 |
Soggetto topico |
Literature
African literature Oriental literature Linguistics English language Literature, Modern-20th century Postcolonial/World Literature African Literature Asian Literature Historical Linguistics English Twentieth-Century Literature |
ISBN |
1-283-58851-X
9786613900968 1-137-26523-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Methodology and overview of findings: stories as data? -- Cameroon: (Fr)Anglophone? -- Nigeria: Generation Y -- Uganda: the power of the pen -- Kenya: rifts apart -- Malaysia: Bahasa Manglish(es) -- Singapore: mad about Singlish -- India: emerging economy, emerging literature. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910785789903321 |
Varughese E. Dawson
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Black Consciousness and South Africa’s National Literature / / by Tom Penfold |
Autore | Penfold Tom |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2017.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XI, 149 p.) |
Disciplina | 809.6 |
Collana | Palgrave pivot |
Soggetto topico |
African literature
Literature, Modern—20th century Literature Poetry Performing arts African Literature Twentieth-Century Literature Postcolonial/World Literature Poetry and Poetics Performing Arts |
ISBN | 3-319-57940-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The History of Black Consciousness -- Chapter 3. Literary Journals and the Direction of the Nation -- Chapter 4. Black Consciousness and the Soweto Poets -- Chapter 5. Theatrical Performance in the 1980s -- Chapter 6. The Poets of No Sure Place -- Chapter 7. Continuing Imaginings -- Bibliography -- Index.-. |
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British Colonial Realism in Africa [[electronic resource] ] : Inalienable Objects, Contested Domains / / by Deborah Shapple Spillman |
Autore | Spillman Deborah Shapple |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (258 p.) |
Disciplina |
820.9/12
820.9008 820.912 |
Collana | Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture |
Soggetto topico |
Literature, Modern-19th century
Literature-Philosophy British literature African literature Ethnology Culture-Study and teaching Nineteenth-Century Literature Literary Theory British and Irish Literature African Literature Cultural Anthropology Cultural Theory |
ISBN |
1-280-68023-7
9786613657169 0-230-37801-3 |
Classificazione | SOC002010LIT004120LIT004010 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction: Reading Colonial Realism; 1 Taking Objects for Origins: Victorian Ethnography and Conrad's Heart of Darkness; 1 Ethnographic Doubling; 2 Of Trifles and Trade: Conrad's Ethnography of Colonialism; 3 Authenticity on the Market, an Afterword; 2 The Uncanny Object Lessons of Mary Kingsley and Edward Blyden; 1 If Objects Could Speak, ""many a wild story the handles of your table knives could tell""; 2 Out of England: Objects and Others; 3 Not ""an object in the midst of other objects""
3 Realism and Realia in Colonial Southern Africa1 Collecting Cape Colony Life; 2 Specimens and Curiosities in Carey-Hobson's The Farm in the Karoo; 3 Outside the Realist Collection: Reckless Generosity and Other Notions of Expenditure; 4 Curses and Gifts in Anna Howarth's Karoo Novels; 4 Artful Tales and Indigenous Arts in Olive Schreiner's The Story of an African Farm; 1 A Portrait of the Artist as a Colonial South African; 2 Schreiner's Grotesque Realism; 3 Histories and ""Bushman"" Painters; Coda; Bibliography; Index |
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Spillman Deborah Shapple
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Capitalism and Freedom in African Political Philosophy / / by Grivas Muchineripi Kayange |
Autore | Kayange Grivas Muchineripi |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2020.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (311 pages) |
Disciplina |
338.96
100 |
Soggetto topico |
Philosophy, Asian
Political science - Philosophy Ethnology - Africa Non-Western Philosophy Political Philosophy African Culture History of Sub-Saharan Africa African Politics African Literature |
ISBN |
9783030443603
3-030-44360-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | CHAPTER 1: General Introduction -- CHAPTER 2: Theoretical Conceptualization of Capitalism and Freedom -- CHAPTER 3: Capitalism and Freedom in African communitarianism -- CHAPTER 4: Capitalism and Freedom in the Colonial Period -- CHAPTER 5: Capitalism and Freedom in One Party Politics -- CHAPTER 6: Capitalist multiparty democracy reforms -- CHAPTER 7: Capitalist Economic Reforms in Africa -- CHAPTER 8: Economic Freedom Conflict -- CHAPTER 9: Sovereignty and Political Freedom Conflict between African Communitarianism and Capitalism -- CHAPTER 10: Moral Freedom Conflict -- CHAPTER 11: Primitive accumulation crisis in the modern African capitalism -- CHAPTER 12: Neo-African Renaissance as a Response to Neo-Capitalism -- CHAPTER 13: Afro-Chinese Alternative to Capitalism and Freedom Conflict -- CHAPTER 14: Embedding capitalism and freedom in a comprehensive theory of ubuntu -- CHAPTER 15: Conclusion. |
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Kayange Grivas Muchineripi
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Chinua Achebe and the Politics of Narration : Envisioning Language / / by Thomas Jay Lynn |
Autore | Lynn Thomas Jay |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2017.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (IX, 176 p.) |
Disciplina | 809.6 |
Collana | African Histories and Modernities |
Soggetto topico |
African literature
Literature Literature, Modern—20th century African Literature Postcolonial/World Literature Twentieth-Century Literature |
ISBN | 3-319-51331-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction -- 2. An Adequate Revolution: Achebe Writes Africa Anew -- 3. Of Flight, Fraud, and Freedom: Achebe’s Political Tricksters.- 4. Language and Ambivalence in Achebe’s Writing -- 5. Language and the Power of Subordination: Achebe’s Integration of Nigerian Pidgin -- 6. Beyond Black and White: British Identity in Achebe’s Fiction.- 7. Catastrophe, Aftermath, Amnesia: Chinua Achebe’s "Civil Peace" -- 8. Unfolding Dialogue: Teaching Achebe’s Fiction -- 9. Conclusion: The Ends of Narration.-. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910255068403321 |
Lynn Thomas Jay
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