Africa writing Europe [[electronic resource] ] : opposition, juxtaposition, entanglement / / edited by Maria Olaussen and Christina Angelfors |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (311 p.) |
Disciplina | 809.8896 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
OlaussenMaria
AngelforsChristina |
Collana | Cross/cultures |
Soggetto topico | African literature |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-282-50513-0
9786612505133 90-420-2927-7 1-4416-2544-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Material -- “On these premises I am the government”: Njabulo Ndebele’s The Cry of Winnie Mandela and the Reconstructions of Gender and Nation / Dorothy Driver -- “A deeper silence”: Dan Jacobson’s Lithuania / Geoffrey V. Davis -- “A language to fit Africa”: ‘Africanness’ and ‘Europeanness’ in the South African Imagination / Gabeba Baderoon -- Morountodun by Femi Osofisan: Marxism, Feminism, and an African Dramatist’s Engagement with an Indigenous Heroic Narrative / Wumi Raji -- Europe Discarded: Ken Bugul and the Twenty-Eighth Wife of a Marabout / Jarmo Pikkujämsä -- “France, effaced but venerated”: Marie Cardinal’s Au pays de mes racines / Ann–Sofie Persson -- From Heterotopia to Home: The University and the Politics of Postcoloniality in Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North and Leila Aboulela’s The Translator / Alexandra W. Schultheis -- Refusing to Speak as a Victim: Agency and the arrivant in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Novel By the Sea / Maria Olaussen -- Refugee(s) Writing: Displacement in Contemporary Narratives of Forced Migration / Jopi Nyman -- Notes on Contributors and Editors -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455092603321 |
Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Africa writing Europe [[electronic resource] ] : opposition, juxtaposition, entanglement / / edited by Maria Olaussen and Christina Angelfors |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (311 p.) |
Disciplina | 809.8896 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
OlaussenMaria
AngelforsChristina |
Collana | Cross/cultures |
Soggetto topico | African literature |
ISBN |
1-282-50513-0
9786612505133 90-420-2927-7 1-4416-2544-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Material -- “On these premises I am the government”: Njabulo Ndebele’s The Cry of Winnie Mandela and the Reconstructions of Gender and Nation / Dorothy Driver -- “A deeper silence”: Dan Jacobson’s Lithuania / Geoffrey V. Davis -- “A language to fit Africa”: ‘Africanness’ and ‘Europeanness’ in the South African Imagination / Gabeba Baderoon -- Morountodun by Femi Osofisan: Marxism, Feminism, and an African Dramatist’s Engagement with an Indigenous Heroic Narrative / Wumi Raji -- Europe Discarded: Ken Bugul and the Twenty-Eighth Wife of a Marabout / Jarmo Pikkujämsä -- “France, effaced but venerated”: Marie Cardinal’s Au pays de mes racines / Ann–Sofie Persson -- From Heterotopia to Home: The University and the Politics of Postcoloniality in Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North and Leila Aboulela’s The Translator / Alexandra W. Schultheis -- Refusing to Speak as a Victim: Agency and the arrivant in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Novel By the Sea / Maria Olaussen -- Refugee(s) Writing: Displacement in Contemporary Narratives of Forced Migration / Jopi Nyman -- Notes on Contributors and Editors -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778444503321 |
Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Africa writing Europe [[electronic resource] ] : opposition, juxtaposition, entanglement / / edited by Maria Olaussen and Christina Angelfors |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (311 p.) |
Disciplina | 809.8896 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
OlaussenMaria
AngelforsChristina |
Collana | Cross/cultures |
Soggetto topico | African literature |
ISBN |
1-282-50513-0
9786612505133 90-420-2927-7 1-4416-2544-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Material -- “On these premises I am the government”: Njabulo Ndebele’s The Cry of Winnie Mandela and the Reconstructions of Gender and Nation / Dorothy Driver -- “A deeper silence”: Dan Jacobson’s Lithuania / Geoffrey V. Davis -- “A language to fit Africa”: ‘Africanness’ and ‘Europeanness’ in the South African Imagination / Gabeba Baderoon -- Morountodun by Femi Osofisan: Marxism, Feminism, and an African Dramatist’s Engagement with an Indigenous Heroic Narrative / Wumi Raji -- Europe Discarded: Ken Bugul and the Twenty-Eighth Wife of a Marabout / Jarmo Pikkujämsä -- “France, effaced but venerated”: Marie Cardinal’s Au pays de mes racines / Ann–Sofie Persson -- From Heterotopia to Home: The University and the Politics of Postcoloniality in Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North and Leila Aboulela’s The Translator / Alexandra W. Schultheis -- Refusing to Speak as a Victim: Agency and the arrivant in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Novel By the Sea / Maria Olaussen -- Refugee(s) Writing: Displacement in Contemporary Narratives of Forced Migration / Jopi Nyman -- Notes on Contributors and Editors -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910811464703321 |
Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910798123203321 |
Crowley D | ||
New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2015 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Africa's Narrative Geographies : 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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910811628003321 |
Crowley D | ||
New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2015 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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African cultures and literatures [[electronic resource] ] : a miscellany / / edited by Gordon Collier |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam, : Rodopi, 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (536 p.) |
Disciplina | 306.488 |
Altri autori (Persone) | CollierGordon |
Collana | Matatu : journal for African culture and society |
Soggetto topico | African literature |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 94-012-0915-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910462892903321 |
Amsterdam, : Rodopi, 2013 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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African cultures and literatures [[electronic resource] ] : a miscellany / / edited by Gordon Collier |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam, : Rodopi, 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (536 p.) |
Disciplina | 306.488 |
Altri autori (Persone) | CollierGordon |
Collana | Matatu : journal for African culture and society |
Soggetto topico | African literature |
ISBN | 94-012-0915-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Literature: General -- Literature: Individual authors -- Creative writing -- African societies and cultural expression -- Reviews. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786974003321 |
Amsterdam, : Rodopi, 2013 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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African cultures and literatures [[electronic resource] ] : a miscellany / / edited by Gordon Collier |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam, : Rodopi, 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (536 p.) |
Disciplina | 306.488 |
Altri autori (Persone) | CollierGordon |
Collana | Matatu : journal for African culture and society |
Soggetto topico | African literature |
ISBN | 94-012-0915-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Literature: General -- Literature: Individual authors -- Creative writing -- African societies and cultural expression -- Reviews. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910827312003321 |
Amsterdam, : Rodopi, 2013 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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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 |
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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