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This handbook provides a critical overview of literature dealing
with groups of people or regions that suffer marginalization within
Africa. The contributors examine a multiplicity of minority
discourses expressed in African literature, including those who are
culturally, socially, politically, religiously, economically, and
sexually marginalized in literary and artistic creations. Chapters
and sections of the book are structured to identify major areas of
minority articulation of their condition and strategies deployed
against the repression, persecution, oppression, suppression,
domination, and tyranny of the majority or dominant group. Bringing
together diverse perspectives to give a holistic representation of
the African reality, this handbook is an important read for
scholars and students of comparative and postcolonial literature
and African studies.
This handbook provides a critical overview of literature dealing
with groups of people or regions that suffer marginalization within
Africa. The contributors examine a multiplicity of minority
discourses expressed in African literature, including those who are
culturally, socially, politically, religiously, economically, and
sexually marginalized in literary and artistic creations. Chapters
and sections of the book are structured to identify major areas of
minority articulation of their condition and strategies deployed
against the repression, persecution, oppression, suppression,
domination, and tyranny of the majority or dominant group. Bringing
together diverse perspectives to give a holistic representation of
the African reality, this handbook is an important read for
scholars and students of comparative and postcolonial literature
and African studies.
From Hollywood to Nollywood: this issue of African Literature Today
examines the relationship between film and video and the
literatures of Africa. A recent literary phenomenon in contemporary
Africa is the developing relationship between film and African
literature. ALT 28 focuses on the interface between film and
literature in contemporary African writing and imagination.
Contributors have examined the issue from a variety of
perspectives: critiques of adaptations of African creative works
into film, analyses of filmic structures in African dramatic
literature, African writers as film makers, and the impact of the
video film industry on literature and the reading culture in
Africa. Ernest N. Emenyonu is Professor of the Department of
Africana Studies, University of Michigan-Flint Nigeria: HEBN
A focus on some of the pioneers of African literary creation. This
special issue of African Literature Today is devoted to some of the
pioneer voices of African fiction in the twentieth century: Bessie
Head, Cyprian Ekwensi, Dennis Brutus, Ezekiel Mphahlele, Flora
Nwapa, Ousmane Sembene and Zulu Sofola. The contributors explore
the development of these influential writers and their impact on
the continent and beyond, through a study of their writing, sources
and influences. Some focus on case studies of specific works which
are particularly important in the creative development of the
author. The contributions of these writers to the growth and
development of modern African Literature are highlighted. These are
also writers whose works, in the words of Chimalum Nwankwo in his
Introduction 'have defined for their time a deep engagement and
commitment with the pulse of the people...' 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 Chimalum Nwankwo [Guest Editor] Former Chair
of the Department of English, North Carolina A & T State
University, Greensboro, USA, and Professor of English and World
Literatures, is currently on sabbatical at Nnamdi Azikiwe
University, Awka, Nigeria. Nigeria: HEBN
Bate Besong was Cameroon's most vocal and controversial poet,
playwright and scholar, who died in March 2007. The poems in this
collection are a tribute to the man and his work, and provide a
snapshot of the mood that prevailed after his death. Bate Besong
ushered in a new kind of nationalist "fighting" literature in
Cameroon, unapologetic in its defense of Cameroon's Anglophone
minority and scathing in its denunciation of postcolonial African
dictators and their foreign collaborators. These poems defy Bate
Besong's death by affirming that his impact as a writer lives on.
34 poems are included from 30 poets. "Moving and tellingly
generous, these tributes attest to the value of Bate Besong as
humanist, artist, and patriot; the 'Inextinguishable Flame' of his
inspiration; the triumph of his life over the pain of his
departure. Here is a resonant celebration not only of the brief but
boisterously bright fire of one of our bravest writers, but also of
the unbreakable chord of our common humanity. The refrains in these
elegies are anthems of hope. The ink in their lines will for ever
stay aglow." Niyi Osundare, Nigerian writer & former teacher of
Bate Besong "These poems put into perspective the essence of that
Anglophone Cameroon literary icon, the fearless "Obasinjom Warrior"
with the bemused smile, who once upon a time, was called Bate
Besong." Ba'bila Mutia, Professor of Literature, ENS, University of
Yaounde 1, Cameroon. Author of Coils of Mortal Flesh
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