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Examines the literary challenges faced by South and Southern Africa
in the post-independence, post-apartheid years. The end of the
apartheid era in South Africa has meant the opening up of the
country's culture, languages and literatures to the outside world.
Within South Africa the literature of protest need no longer
dominate creative outputand there has been a move towards a
rediscovery of the ordinary . The realities of post-independence
Zimbabwe as expressed in song and literature are also examined.
North America: Africa World Press
Anyone with an interest in written or oral literature in Africa
would do well to consult Oral & Written Poetry in African
Literature Today. The contemporary poet in Africa is continuing a
long tradition of poetry which in many places pre-dated the advent
of writing. North America: Africa World Press
The re-issue of archival volumes ALT 1 to ALT 14 makes the complete
series available and provides the historical perspective of these
early contributions to the literature and its criticism. First
published in 1975, this volume of the series continues in more
depth the debate on the role of critics and the purpose of
criticism. As Eldred Jones reminds the reader in his Editorial:
"African Literature Today has always aimed to be a forum for
discussion ... Not surprisingly some opinions have provoked strong
reactions. Indeed where there is time reactions are deliberately
sought so that differing opinions can appear close to each
other....African Literature Today is happy to serve as the
threshing floor." The lively exchanges on who is best placed to
judge African literature and how best to teach it continue both in
responding articles and in the Comments section of the volume.
Eldred Jones again embraces this debate and is reminded of the Igbo
proverb: "The world is like a mask dancing; if you want to see it
well you must not stand in one place."
The re-issue of archival volumes ALT 1 to ALT 14 makes the complete
series available and provides the historical perspective of these
early contributions to the literature and its criticism. This
volume, first published in 1980, provides an overview of the way
myth and history have influenced both the literature of Africa and
individual writers. Isidore Okpewho, Solomon O. Iyasere and Mazisi
Kunene contribute here onmyth, oral tradition and African
cosmological systems. Armah's vision of history is examined both in
the way that it appears in his novels and in comparison with
Ouologuem and Soyinka; also examined are Elechi Amadi's view of
thegods, Achebe's use of myth in Arrow of God and the inward
journey of Tutuola's Palm-Wine Drinkard. There are views across the
Atlantic of the way the Middle Passage resonates in the work of
Edouard Glissant and in the work of a number of writers from West
Africa.
The re-issue of archival volumes ALT 1 to ALT 14 makes the complete
series available and provides the historical perspective of these
early contributions to the literature and its criticism. Originally
published in 1971, this was the first volume in the series to focus
on a specific theme, in this case the novel, but continues the
format of including contributions from both writers and critics.
There are articles on:Equiano, Onuora Nzekwu, T.M. Aluko, Ngugi,
Sarif Easmon, Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka. The volume also
includes a contribution from Ernest Emenyonu asking of African
Literature "What does it take to be its critic" plus reviews of
Sembene Ousmane's newly published God's Bits of Wood, Mbella Sonne
Dipoko's Because of Women</, T.M. Aluko's Chief, The Honourable
Minister and Flora Nwapa's Idu.
The re-issue of archival volumes ALT 1 to ALT 14 makes the complete
series available and provides the historical perspective of these
early contributions to the literature and its criticism. In his
Editorial to African Literature Today 12, first published in 1982,
Eldred Jones laments the death of Camara Laye and gives tribute to
him as one of the pioneers of African literature. The volume
celebrates new writers whose works "have not received much critical
attention either because they are relatively new, or because not
being what might be described as mainstream they may
unintentionally, perhaps, have been damned with faint praise or
neglect." There are contributions on the works of Gabriel Okara,
Robert Serumaga, Hamidou Kane and John Munonye, and emerging as
significant new voices are playwrights Femi Osofisan and Ola
Rotimi, and feminist writer Mariama Ba.
The re-issue of archival volumes ALT 1 to ALT 14 makes the complete
series available and provides the historical perspective of these
early contributions to the literature and its criticism. This
volume, first published in 1978, looks at the fascinating literary
links of the African diaspora in Harlem, Cuba and Haiti. Eldred
Jones outlines in his Editorial the impact of the pride in
connections with an African past as"one of the great
transformations of modern times". The impact on writing moved in
all directions and comparisons in this volume are made between Wole
Soyinka and Leroi Jones, and between African and Irish Nationalist
writing. Among the contributions are articles on the American
background to Ayi Kwei Armah's Why Are We So Blest?, the African
elements of Cuban literature, and an analysis of the early works
and later crime fiction of Chester Himes.The Reviews include
Kadiatu Sesay on Ekwensi and Okpwewho, Maryse Conde on Sembene
Ousmane's Xala and Eustace Palmer on Meja Mwangi's Going Down River
Road and Nuruddin Farah's Naked Needle.
The re-issue of archival volumes ALT 1 to ALT 14 makes the complete
series available and provides the historical perspective of these
early contributions to the literature and its criticism. First
published in 1976, this volume has a focus on African drama and
carries an introductory article by Ghanaian poet and playwright
J.C. de Graft. There are three articles on Wole Soyinka's work as a
playwright and an article onthe dramatic works of Ama Ata Aidoo, as
well as an article on four dramatists from East Africa. The
dilemmas of the popular playwright are discussed in an article on
two Zambian writers and Eldred Jones's Editorial gives examplesfrom
Sierra Leone of the challenges faced by more "popular" playwrights
and those with the more "literary" concerns of publication.
The re-issue of archival volumes ALT 1 to ALT 14 makes the complete
series available and provides the historical perspective of these
early contributions to the literature and its criticism. First
published in 1983, this volume looks at new developments in the
African novel and also at those aspects of more established works
that received less critical attention, such as writing from
southern Africa, to which censorship and war restricted access.
Eldred Jones in his Editorial also cites the "searing impact of the
Nigerian Civil War, on the consciousness, not just on Nigerians,
but on Africans as a whole". There are also contributions on
Nigerian populist Kole Omotoso and Dambudzo Marechera's
prize-winning House of Hunger. One of the most significant trends
is the emergence of the powerful feminist talents of Buchi
Emecheta, Flora Nwapa, Bessie Head, Ama Ata Aidoo and Rebeka Njau.
Articles by Eustace Palmer and Femi Ojo-Ade examine the depth and
intensity with which some new novelists present the female point of
view.
The re-issue of archival volumes ALT 1 to ALT 14 makes the complete
series available and provides the historical perspective of these
early contributions to the literature and its criticism. In this
10th anniversary volume, first published in 1979, Eldred Jones
outlines the trend over the years since independence of "a greater
degree of alienation or dissidence of the principal writers from
established regimes and a movement towards a closer identification
with what they see as the needs of the ordinary people. Writers
increasingly found themselves in difficulties with their respective
governments, with ensuing consequences of loss of favour,of exile -
enforced or voluntary - or worse still of detention or imprisonment
in their own countries." This issue makes a reassessment of African
writing with special articles on novels, drama and poetry and
particular studies ofthe work of Kofi Awoonor, Ngugi, Ezekiel
Mphalele, Richard Rive, Cyprian Ekwensi, Ayi Kwei Armah, Yambo
Ouologuem and Arthur Nortje.
The re-issue of archival volumes ALT 1 to ALT 14 makes the complete
series available and provides the historical perspective of these
early contributions to the literature and its criticism. This
volume, first published in 1984, studies the attraction of Africa
for non-African writers and the widespread and differing outside
influences on African writers. This relationship raises complex
problems such as which language to write in, and the representation
or misrepresentation of the continent. Kole Omotoso gives a
trans-Saharan view of Africa, Funso Aiyejina a West Indian
perspective highlighting the work of George Lamming and Denis
Williams, and Katherine Frank examines the relevance of feminist
criticism to the African novel. Other contributors compare and
contrast the works of European, American, Caribbean and African
writers: Graham Greene and Dadie; Soyinka and Beckett; Laye,
Lamming and Wright; Camus and Cesaire; Yeats and J.P. Clark;
Equiano and Defoe; Ernest Gaines and Oyono.
The re-issue of archival volumes ALT 1 to ALT 14 makes the complete
series available and provides the historical perspective of these
early contributions to the literature and its criticism. First
published in 1973, this volume of the series includes a tribute
from the Editor to the poet Christopher Okigbo who died fighting in
the Biafran War in 1967, and two articles on his poetry. Also
discussed are Leopold Senghor,Dennis Brutus, Wole Soyinka, Lenrie
Peters and Ferdinand Oyono. The contributions analyse East African
poetry, French Algerian poetry, Zulu poetry, and "Rara" chants in
Yoruba oral poetry. Donatus I. Nwoga writes a general article on
modern African poetry. The new books reviewed include Mazisi
Kunene's Zulu Poems and Okot p'Bitek's Two Songs: "Song of
Prisoner" and "Song of Malaya" and Taban lo Liyong's Another Nigger
Dead.
The re-issue of archival volumes ALT 1 to ALT 14 makes the complete
series available and provides the historical perspective of these
early contributions to the literature and its criticism. The
intention of the African Literature Today series [ALT] was, and
still is, to encourage African writing in any language, whether of
fiction, poetry or plays, and also to encourage its criticism. The
critic's role, according toEldred Durosimi Jones in his 1968
Introduction to ALT 1, is to make the work accessible to a wider
readership and to help establish literary standards for African
literature: "The more permissive the publisher's policy is,the more
necessary becomes the function of the critic." This book combines
the first 4 volumes in the series, which had been published as
single volumes between 1968 and 1970, then combined into one volume
in 1972. It includes Bernth Lindfors' essay "The palm wine with
which Achebe's words are eaten", plus early reviews of Elechi
Amadi's The Concubine, Aime Cesaire's Une Saison au Congo, Flora
Nwapa's Efuru and Ngugi's A Grainof Wheat.
Is the woman writer free to follow her own creative impulse and
write about what she pleases? Reflects the emergence of
accomplished works by African women writers. North America: Africa
World Press
This work features articles which examine the works of new African
writers who have appeared (or who have developed significantly) in
the last two decades in all of the genres.<
This work features articles which examine the works of new African
writers who have appeared (or who have developed significantly) in
the last two decades in all of the genres. North America: Africa
World Press
North America: Africa World Press
The experience of childhood as examined in the works of African
writers. This volume examines linguistic, literary, gender and
generation issues in both autobiographies and fictional treatments
of childhood in the works of Camara Laye, Wole Soyinka, Mongo Beti,
Chinua Achebe, Ben Okri, Zaynab Alkali, Buchi Emecheta, Tsitsi
Dangarembga, Athol Fugard and Issac Mogotsi. North America: Africa
World Press
North America: Africa World Press
North America: Africa World Press
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