Afrikaans Literature: Recollection, Redefinition, Restitution

Afrikaans Literature: Recollection, Redefinition, Restitution PDF Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004659056
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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Afrikaans Literature: Recollection, Redefinition, Restitution

Afrikaans Literature: Recollection, Redefinition, Restitution PDF Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004659056
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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Afrikaans Literature

Afrikaans Literature PDF Author: Robert Kriger
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9789042000513
Category : Afrikaans literature
Languages : en
Pages : 346

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Fusion of Cultures?

Fusion of Cultures? PDF Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004489959
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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The intention of this second volume of ASNEL Papers is to counter orthodox post-colonial emphases on alterity, subversion, and counter-discourse with another set of concepts: fusion, syncretism, hybridity, creolisation, cross-fertilisation, cross-cultural identity, diaspora. Topics covered include: gender and identity; syncretic aesthetics in Nigerian and South African performing arts; hyphenated identities in diasporic fiction; reversals of colonial mimicry in Ugandan fiction; cultural reflexivity in the Victorian juvenile novel; the persistence of colonial traits in Zimbabwean war fiction; syncretic strategies of resistance in African prison memoirs; indigene life-histories and intercultural authorship; neo-essentialism in post-colonial critiques of the Rushdie Affair; US multiculturalism and political praxis; creolisation in Surinam; cultural complexities in the Caribbean epic; literary representations of the Haitian Revolution. Authors treated within broader frameworks include Margaret Atwood, R.M. Ballantyne, Marie-Claire Blais. Alejo Carpentier, Roch Carrier, Aimé Césaire, Michelle Cliff, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Edouard Glissant, Andrew Hacker, Eddy L. Harris, Wilson Harris, Bessie Head, C.L.R. James, Maxine Hong Kingston, Jayanta Mahapatra, Paule Marshall, A.K. Mehrotra, Timothy Mo, Bharati Mukherjee, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Akiki Nyabongo, Eugene O'Neill, Molefe Pheto, Salman Rushdie, Wole Soyinka, Ted Trindell, and Derek Walcott. There are also poems by David Woods and Afua Cooper.

Preserving the Landscape of Imagination

Preserving the Landscape of Imagination PDF Author: Raoul Granqvist
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9789042001602
Category : African literature (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 406

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Gender, I-deology

Gender, I-deology PDF Author: Chantal Cornut-Gentille D'Arcy
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9789051839692
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 502

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ISBN 9051839588 (paperback) NLG 55.00 From the contents: The female body: a resonant voice in the multicultural scene (Angeles de la Concha).- Fear, desire, and masculinity (Joanne Neff van Aertselaer).- Feminist utopian visions in the early 20th century U.S. (Lois Rudnick).- Women and science fiction (Pamela Sargent).- Female spectatorship in The purple rose of Cairo (Barbara Arizti Martin).

With Open Eyes

With Open Eyes PDF Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004656162
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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Encyclopedia of African Literature

Encyclopedia of African Literature PDF Author: Simon Gikandi
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134582234
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 886

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The most comprehensive reference work on African literature to date, this book covers all the key historical and cultural issues in the field. The Encyclopedia contains over 600 entries covering criticism and theory, African literature's development as a field of scholarship, and studies of established and lesser-known writers and their texts. While the greatest proportion of literary work in Africa has been a product of the twentieth century, the Encyclopedia also covers the literature back to the earliest eras of story-telling and oral transmission, making this a unique and valuable resource for those studying social sciences as well as humanities. This work includes cross-references, suggestions for further reading, and a comprehensive index.

A Comparative Analysis of the South African and German Reception of Nadine Gordimer's, Andre Brink's and J.M. Coetzee's Works

A Comparative Analysis of the South African and German Reception of Nadine Gordimer's, Andre Brink's and J.M. Coetzee's Works PDF Author: Eva-Marie Herlitzius
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 9783825883492
Category : Literature and society
Languages : en
Pages : 388

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Magical Realism and Deleuze

Magical Realism and Deleuze PDF Author: Eva Aldea
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1441102965
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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Since the success of Gabriel García Márquez's 1967 novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, and the following Latin American literary 'boom' of the late sixties and seventies, magical realism has had a steady following, an international influence and become established as a literary genre. Yet its definition has remained vague. Through the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, this study rethinks magical realism, making an argument for using Deleuzian readings of literature in general while dealing with the implications of a new approach for prevalent postcolonial studies in particular. With One Hundred Years of Solitude used as a model, Eva Aldea takes a Deleuzian approach to major anglophone works by Rushdie, Okri, Morrison, and Ghosh. She shows how the power of magical realism lies not, as is commonly held, in its subversion of the real and the magical, but in allowing the two to remain radically different and yet indiscernible at the same time, challenging existing readings of the genre.

Unsettling Nature

Unsettling Nature PDF Author: Taylor Eggan
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813946859
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 436

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The German poet and mystic Novalis once identified philosophy as a form of homesickness. More than two centuries later, as modernity’s displacements continue to intensify, we feel Novalis’s homesickness more than ever. Yet nowhere has a longing for home flourished more than in contemporary environmental thinking, and particularly in eco-phenomenology. If only we can reestablish our sense of material enmeshment in nature, so the logic goes, we might reverse the degradation we humans have wrought—and in saving the earth we can once again dwell in the nearness of our own being. Unsettling Nature opens with a meditation on the trouble with such ecological homecoming narratives, which bear a close resemblance to narratives of settler colonial homemaking. Taylor Eggan demonstrates that the Heideggerian strain of eco-phenomenology—along with its well-trod categories of home, dwelling, and world—produces uncanny effects in settler colonial contexts. He reads instances of nature’s defamiliarization not merely as psychological phenomena but also as symptoms of the repressed consciousness of coloniality. The book at once critiques Heidegger’s phenomenology and brings it forward through chapters on Willa Cather, D. H. Lawrence, Olive Schreiner, Doris Lessing, and J. M. Coetzee. Suggesting that alienation may in fact be "natural" to the human condition and hence something worth embracing instead of repressing, Unsettling Nature concludes with a speculative proposal to transform eco-phenomenology into "exo-phenomenology"—an experiential mode that engages deeply with the alterity of others and with the self as its own Other.