African Literature An Anthology of Criticism and Theory
by Olaniyan, Tejumola; Quayson, AtoEdition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2007-07-10
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary
This is the first anthology to bring together the key texts of African literary theory and criticism. Brings together key texts that are otherwise hard to locate Covers all genres and critical schools Provides the intellectual context for understanding African literature Facilitates the future development of African literary criticism
Author Biography
Tejumola Olaniyan is Professor in English at the University of Wisconsin. His publications include: Scars of Conquest/Masks of Resistance: The Invention of Cultural Identities in African, African American and Caribbean Drama (1995), Arrest the Music: Fela and His Rebel Art and Politics (2004), and he is coeditor of African Drama and Performance (2004).
Ato Quayson is Professor in English and Director of the Centre for Diaspora and Transnationalism Studies, University of Toronto. His previous publications include Strategic Transformation in Nigerian Writing (1997), Postcolonialism: Theory, Practice or Process? (2000), Relocating Postcolonialism (Blackwell, 2002) and Calibrations: Reading for the Social (2003).
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction | |
| Backgrounds | |
| Africa and Writing | |
| Sub-Saharan Africa's Literary History in a Nutshell | |
| Politics, Culture, and Literary Form | |
| African Literature in Portuguese | |
| North African Writing | |
| A Continent and its Literatures in French | |
| African Literature and the Colonial Factor | |
| African Literature: Myth or Reality? | |
| Orality, Literacy, and the Interface | |
| Africa and Orality | |
| Orality, Literacy, and African Literature | |
| Oral Literature and Modern African Literature | |
| Women's Oral Genres | |
| The Oral Artist's Script | |
| Writer, Writing, and Function | |
| The Novelist as Teacher | |
| The Truth of Fiction | |
| Three in a Bed: Fiction, Morals, and Politics | |
| Nobel Lecture | |
| Redefining Relevance | |
| Preparing Ourselves for Freedom | |
| Creativity in/and Adversarial Contexts | |
| A Voice That Would Not Be Silenced | |
| Exile and Creativity: A Prolonged Writer's Block | |
| Containing Cockroaches (Memories of Incarceration Reconstructed in Exile) | |
| Writing Against Neo-Colonialism | |
| The Writer and Responsibility | |
| Dissidence and Creativity | |
| Culture Beyond Color? A South African Dilemma | |
| In Praise of Exile | |
| The African Writer's Experience of European Literature | |
| On Nativism and the Quest for Indigenous Aesthetics: Negritude and Traditionalism | |
| Negritude: A Humanism of the Twentieth Century | |
| What is N_gritude? | |
| Negritude and a New Africa: An Update | |
| Prodigals, Come Home! | |
| Neo-Tarzanism: The Poetics of Pseudo-Tradition | |
| My Signifier is More Native than Yours: Issues in Making a Literature African: Ad_l_k+ Ad_+ko | |
| Out of Africa: Topologies of Nativism | |
| On National Culture | |
| True and False Pluralism | |
| "An Open Letter to Africans" c/o The Punic One-Party State | |
| Resistance Theory/Theorizing Resistance or Two Cheers for Nativism | |
| The Language of African Literature | |
| The Dead End of African Literature | |
| The Language of African Literature | |
| Anamnesis in the Language of Writing | |
| African-Language Literature: Tragedy and Hope | |
| On Genres | |
| Background to the West African Novel | |
| Languages of the Novel: A Lover's Reflections | |
| Realism and Naturalism in African Fiction | |
| "Who Am I?": Fact and Fiction in African First-Person Narrative | |
| Festivals, Ritual, and Drama in Africa | |
| The Fourth Stage: Through the Mysteries of Ogun to the Origin of Yoruba Tragedy | |
| Introduction to King Oedipus | |
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