| Titre de série : |
African literature today, 27 |
| Titre : |
New novels in African literature today : a review |
| Type de document : |
texte imprimé |
| Auteurs : |
Ernest Nneji Emenyonu (1939-....), Editeur scientifique |
| Editeur : |
Woodbridge - Suffolk [Royaume-Uni] : James Currey |
| Année de publication : |
2010 |
| Autre Editeur : |
Rochester - New York [États-Unis] : Boydell & Brewer |
| Collection : |
African literature today num. 27 |
| Importance : |
1 vol. (XII-173 p.) |
| Format : |
22 cm |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : |
978-0-85255-572-9 |
| Note générale : |
Index |
| Langues : |
Anglais (eng) |
| Catégories : |
Litérature africaine en anglais -- Histoire et critique -- 21e siècle ; Littérature africaine en anglais ; Littérature africaine en anglais -- Histoire et critique -- 20e siècle ; Roman africain en anglais -- Histoire -- 1945-....
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| Index. décimale : |
820.99609045 |
| Résumé : |
This is a seminal work that discusses the validity of the perception that the new generation of African novelists is remarkably different in vision, style, and worldview from the older generation. The contention is that the older generation novelists who were too close to the colonial period in Africa had invariably made culture-conflict and little else their dominant thematic concern while the younger generation novelists are more versatile in their thematic preoccupations, and are more global in their vision and style. Do the facts in the novels justify and validate these claims? The 13 papers in this volume have been carefully selected to consider these issues |
| Note de contenu : |
Editorial article: The African novel in the 21st century: sustaining the gains of the 20th century / Ernest N. Emenyonu -- Resurgent spirits, Catholic echoes of Igbo & petals of purple: the syncretised world of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus / Brenda Cooper -- Ambivalent inscriptions: women, youth & diasporic identity in Buchi Emecheta's later fiction / Omar Sougou -- The interrupted dance: racial memory in Isidore Okpewho's Call Me By My Rightful Name / Clement Okafor -- The Ivorian crisis & Ahmadou Kourouma's posthumous political novel Quand on refuse, on dit non / Sery Bailly -- Women as the 'voice of the people' & the western audience: Ngugi's Wizard of the Crow / Joseph McLaren -- The ankh & maat: symbols of successful revolution in Ayi Kwei Armah's Osiris Rising / Sophie Akhuemokhan -- A new African youth novel in the era of HIV/AIDS: an analysis of Unity Dow's Far & beyon' / Machiko Oike -- The prison of Nigerian woman: female complicity in Sefi Atta's Everything Good Will Come / Florence Orabueze -- Manufacturing skin for Somalia's history: Nuruddin Farah's deep hurt in Links / Tej N. Dhar -- A Zimbabwean ethic of humanity: Tsitsi Dangarembga's The Book of Not & the unhu philosophy of personhood / Ada U. Azodo -- Coming to America: Ike Oguine's A Squatter's Tale & the Nigerian/African immigrant's narrative - Christopher Okonkwo -- War discourse as fictional narrative: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun / Charles Nnolim -- Reviews / James Gibbs |
African literature today, 27. New novels in African literature today : a review [texte imprimé] / Ernest Nneji Emenyonu (1939-....), Editeur scientifique . - Woodbridge - Suffolk (Royaume-Uni) : James Currey : Rochester - New York (États-Unis) : Boydell & Brewer, 2010 . - 1 vol. (XII-173 p.) ; 22 cm. - ( African literature today; 27) . ISBN : 978-0-85255-572-9 Index Langues : Anglais ( eng)
| Catégories : |
Litérature africaine en anglais -- Histoire et critique -- 21e siècle ; Littérature africaine en anglais ; Littérature africaine en anglais -- Histoire et critique -- 20e siècle ; Roman africain en anglais -- Histoire -- 1945-....
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| Index. décimale : |
820.99609045 |
| Résumé : |
This is a seminal work that discusses the validity of the perception that the new generation of African novelists is remarkably different in vision, style, and worldview from the older generation. The contention is that the older generation novelists who were too close to the colonial period in Africa had invariably made culture-conflict and little else their dominant thematic concern while the younger generation novelists are more versatile in their thematic preoccupations, and are more global in their vision and style. Do the facts in the novels justify and validate these claims? The 13 papers in this volume have been carefully selected to consider these issues |
| Note de contenu : |
Editorial article: The African novel in the 21st century: sustaining the gains of the 20th century / Ernest N. Emenyonu -- Resurgent spirits, Catholic echoes of Igbo & petals of purple: the syncretised world of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus / Brenda Cooper -- Ambivalent inscriptions: women, youth & diasporic identity in Buchi Emecheta's later fiction / Omar Sougou -- The interrupted dance: racial memory in Isidore Okpewho's Call Me By My Rightful Name / Clement Okafor -- The Ivorian crisis & Ahmadou Kourouma's posthumous political novel Quand on refuse, on dit non / Sery Bailly -- Women as the 'voice of the people' & the western audience: Ngugi's Wizard of the Crow / Joseph McLaren -- The ankh & maat: symbols of successful revolution in Ayi Kwei Armah's Osiris Rising / Sophie Akhuemokhan -- A new African youth novel in the era of HIV/AIDS: an analysis of Unity Dow's Far & beyon' / Machiko Oike -- The prison of Nigerian woman: female complicity in Sefi Atta's Everything Good Will Come / Florence Orabueze -- Manufacturing skin for Somalia's history: Nuruddin Farah's deep hurt in Links / Tej N. Dhar -- A Zimbabwean ethic of humanity: Tsitsi Dangarembga's The Book of Not & the unhu philosophy of personhood / Ada U. Azodo -- Coming to America: Ike Oguine's A Squatter's Tale & the Nigerian/African immigrant's narrative - Christopher Okonkwo -- War discourse as fictional narrative: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun / Charles Nnolim -- Reviews / James Gibbs |
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