West African Literatures: Ways of ReadingOUP Oxford, 08.06.2006 - 259 Seiten The Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures series (general editor: Elleke Boehmer) offers stimulating and accessible introductions to definitive topics and key genres and regions within the rapidly diversifying field of postcolonial literary studies in English.This study of West African literatures interweaves the analysis of fiction, drama, and poetry with an exploration of the broader political, cultural, and intellectual contexts within which West African writers work. Anglophone literatures form the central focus of the book, with comparative comments on vernacular literature, francophone writing and oral literatures, and detailed discussion of selected francophone texts in translation (e.g., Senghor, Tadjo, Beyala, Bâ, Sembene). Movingfrom a discussion of nationalist and anti-colonial writing in the period before independence, towards the more experimental writings of contemporary authors such as Véronique Tadjo (Ivory Coast), Syl Cheney-Coker (Sierra Leone), and Kojo Laing (Ghana), the book constantly relates texts to the social andpolitical history of West Africa. Canonical, internationally well-known writers such as Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka are positioned in relation to the literary cultures and debates which surrounded them when they first produced their seminal texts; the discussions and disagreements which have grown up around their work in subsequent decades are also considered. The work of new and lesser-known writers is also considered, including Niyi Osundare (Nigeria) and Kofi Anyidoho (Ghana). In order toconvey a sense of the rich and complex societies that are clustered beneath the umbrella-term 'postcolonial', emphasis is placed on West Africa's diverse oral and popular cultures, and the ways in which local intellectuals and readers have responded to the most prominent authors through theaesthetic frameworks generated by these forms. |
Inhalt
Where is West Africa? | 1 |
2 Négritude | 24 |
Islam and Identity in West African Literature | 45 |
4 Oral Literatures | 59 |
5 Lost and Found in Translation | 74 |
Presence and Palimpsest in the Colonialscape | 85 |
7 Popular Literature | 101 |
Literary Experiments with Oral Genres 1960s1990s | 124 |
10 Marxism and West African Literature | 159 |
Postmodernism Poststructuralism Postcolonialism | 172 |
12 Experimental Writing by the Third Generation | 182 |
Calixthe Beyala Werewere Liking and Véronique Tadjo | 192 |
West Africa in Postcolonial Theory | 201 |
Notes | 214 |
Bibliography | 225 |
251 | |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
1st pub Achebe Achebe's aesthetic African cultural African literary African women anglophone anti-colonial Anyidoho Arabic Beyala Black British century Chapter Chinua Chinua Achebe Christian contemporary creative critics cultural nationalist Deandrea debates discussed emphasis retained English European Fagunwa female feminism feminist Fiction francophone French gender Ghana Ghanaian Gikandi global griots Hausa Heinemann Educational Books human identity ideological Igbo imperial intellectuals Irele Islamic James Currey Jeyifo language Léopold Sédar Senghor London male Mariama Mariama Bâ marriage Marxist Muslim narrative négritude négritude poets neocolonial Ngugi Nigeria Niyi Osundare novel numbers Nwapa Okri Onitsha market literature oral genres Osofisan Osundare Oxford Palm-Wine Drinkard pamphlets poems poetry political postcolonial postcolonial theory pre-colonial readers region role scapes Senegal Senghor sexual social Soyinka stories Studies Tadjo texts themes theory Things Fall tradition trans translation Tutuola University Press vernacular West African authors West African literature western Wole Soyinka woman women writers writing Yoruba
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