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