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Title: |
Re-Imagining Africa |
| Sub-title: |
New Critical Perspectives |
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| Edited by: |
Sue Kossew |
| ISBN10-13: |
1590331001 : 9781590331002 |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| Size: |
155x230mm |
| Pages: |
228 |
| Weight: |
.526 Kg. |
| Published: |
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US) - February 2002 |
| List Price: |
78.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
Temporarily Out of Stock, more expected soon
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| Subjects: |
Cultural studies : Africa |
| This book provides a plethora of insights and perspectives that take up and challenge prevailing points of view about today's Africa. The chapters examine a number of different media and topics: from African theatre to poetry, from accounts of personal history to South Africa's language policy and publishing practices. Their unifying theme is a search for tomorrow's cultural trends in an ever-changing Africa. |
| Table of Contents: |
| Contents: Introduction; A Century of Conrad's Heart of Darkness; Monstering the Interior; Internal Journeys Over External Landscapes; Dictating Currents and the Questioning of Tyranny in Africa: An Intertextual Study of Femi Osofisan's Yungba-Yungba and the Dance Contest; Between Ancestries and Amarapurs: Immigrant Asianess in M.G. Vassanji's Fiction; Social Suffering and the Politics of Pain: Observations on the Concentration Camps in the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902; "Voices from the Past": The Depiction of the Khoisan in Contemporary Afrikaan's Historical Novels; " A White Fly on the Sombre Windowpane": The Construction of Africa and identity in Breyten Breytenbach's Poetry; "Something Terrible Happened": Nadine Gordimer's The House Gun and the Politics of Violence and Recovery in Post-Apartheid South Africa; Intertextuality in Cheikh Hamidou Kane's The Ambiguous Adventure: Multiple Readings of Death; Sins of the Father? Thematic Concerns in South African Homosexual Writing; Elephants and the Ethics of Ecological Criticism: A Case Study in Recent South African Fiction; South Africa's Language Policy: Controlled Status Enhancement and Reduction; African-Language Publishing and Book Promotion in South Africa, 1994-2000: Some Developments and Ironies; Index. |
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