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ALT 32 Politics & Social Justice: African Literature Today (Paperback) Loot Price: R942
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ALT 32 Politics & Social Justice: African Literature Today (Paperback): Ernest N. Emenyonu

ALT 32 Politics & Social Justice: African Literature Today (Paperback)

Ernest N. Emenyonu; Contributions by Deborah L Klein, Edward Sackey, Emilia V. Ilieva, Eric Nsuh Zuhmboshi, Ernest N. Emenyonu, Ghirmai Negash, H. Obiageli Okolocha, Ikenna Kamalu, James Gibbs

Series: African Literature Today

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Examines some of the varied African literary responses to politics and social justice and injustice under colonialism/neocolonialism. In 1965, Chinua Achebe, in his classic essay "The Novelist as Teacher", declared that the "African past - with all its imperfections - was not one long night of savagery from which the early Europeans acting on God's behalf, delivered them." That assertion included a still reverberating sentiment shared by many of the first generation of African writers that it is possible to reclaim that distorted past creatively in order to show and understand "where andwhen the rain started beating Africa". Many genres and forms of literary and cultural production have recalled and recorded and reconfigured that past - many projecting a new confident African future defined by self-determination. The spectrum of that complex engagement, which encompasses critical issues in politics and social justice, provides the basis of this volume, which concludes with tributes to the life and works of Kofi Awoonor. Articles on: Binyavanga Wainaina + Ben Okri & Nationhood + J.M. Coetzee & the Philosophy of Justice + Isidore Okpewho & "Manhood" + Ngugi's Matigari & the Postcolonial Nation + Politics & Women in Irene Salami's MoreThan Dancing + Ayi Kwei Armah's The Resolutionaries Ernest Emenyonu is Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Michigan-Flint, USA; the editorial board is composed of scholars from US, UK and African universities Nigeria: HEBN

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Imprint: James Currey
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: African Literature Today
Release date: November 2014
First published: 2014
Editors: Ernest N. Emenyonu (Author)
Contributors: Deborah L Klein (Contributor) • Edward Sackey • Emilia V. Ilieva • Eric Nsuh Zuhmboshi • Ernest N. Emenyonu (Author) • Ghirmai Negash (Contributor) • H. Obiageli Okolocha • Ikenna Kamalu • James Gibbs
Dimensions: 216 x 140 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 211
ISBN-13: 978-1-84701-097-1
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
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LSN: 1-84701-097-0
Barcode: 9781847010971

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