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This book chronicles the rise and the development of postcolonial
agency since Africa's encounter with Western modernity through
African and African diaspora literature and film. Using African and
African diasporic imaginaries (creative writings, autobiographies,
polemical writings, and filmic media), the author shows how African
subjects have resisted enslavement and colonial domination over the
past centuries, and how they have sought to reshape "global
modernity". Authors and film makers whose works are examined in
detail include Olaudah Equiano, Haile Gerima, Amma Asante, George
Washington Williams, William Sheppard, Wole Soyinka, Dani Kouyate,
Chris Abani, Chimamanda Adichie, and Leila Aboulela. Providing a
critical study of nativism, hybridity and post-hybrid conjunctive
consciousness, this book will be of interest to students and
scholars of African and African diasporic literature, history, and
cultural studies.
This book chronicles the rise and the development of postcolonial
agency since Africa’s encounter with Western modernity through
African and African diaspora literature and film. Using African and
African diasporic imaginaries (creative writings, autobiographies,
polemical writings, and filmic media), the author shows how African
subjects have resisted enslavement and colonial domination over the
past centuries, and how they have sought to reshape "global
modernity". Authors and film makers whose works are examined in
detail include Olaudah Equiano, Haile Gerima, Amma Asante, George
Washington Williams, William Sheppard, Wole Soyinka, Dani Kouyaté,
Chris Abani, Chimamanda Adichie, and Leila Aboulela. Providing a
critical study of nativism, hybridity and post-hybrid conjunctive
consciousness, this book will be of interest to students and
scholars of African and African diasporic literature, history, and
cultural studies.
In this collection of essays written from different critical
perspectives, African playwrights demonstrate through their art
that they are not only witnesses, but also consciences, of their
societies. Their works bear witness to the strivings of African
people as they challenge the vices that continue to plague the
continent, including neo-colonialism, dictatorship, corruption,
nepotism, inter-ethnic conflicts, poverty, gender inequality and
HIV/AIDS.;This anthology, which also emphasises the existence of a
link or a sense of organic continuity within African literary
tradition between the pre-colonial and post-colonial forms of drama
and theatre, is designed to be a guide to students and scholars of
African literature and society.
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