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Author : Lewis Nkosi
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)
Download or read book Home and Exile and Other Selections written by Lewis Nkosi and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1983 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chinua Achebe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190285559
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)
Download or read book Home and Exile written by Chinua Achebe and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000-07-27 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinua Achebe is Africa's most prominent writer, the author of Things Fall Apart, the best known--and best selling--novel ever to come out of Africa. His fiction and poetry burn with a passionate commitment to political justice, bringing to life not only Africa's troubled encounters with Europe but also the dark side of contemporary African political life. Now, in Home and Exile, Achebe reveals the man behind his powerful work. Here is an extended exploration of the European impact on African culture, viewed through the most vivid experience available to the author--his own life. It is an extended snapshot of a major writer's childhood, illuminating his roots as an artist. Achebe discusses his English education and the relationship between colonial writers and the European literary tradition. He argues that if colonial writers try to imitate and, indeed, go one better than the Empire, they run the danger of undervaluing their homeland and their own people. Achebe contends that to redress the inequities of global oppression, writers must focus on where they come from, insisting that their value systems are as legitimate as any other. Stories are a real source of power in the world, he concludes, and to imitate the literature of another culture is to give that power away. Home and Exile is a moving account of an exceptional life. Achebe reveals the inner workings of the human conscience through the predicament of Africa and his own intellectual life. It is a story of the triumph of mind, told in the words of one of this century's most gifted writers.
Author : Lindy Stiebel
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042018070
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)
Download or read book Still Beating the Drum written by Lindy Stiebel and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2005 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers English literature and post/colonial literature in English, in 20th century South Africa.
Author : Mark Israel
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349149233
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)
Download or read book South African Political Exile in the United Kingdom written by Mark Israel and published by Springer. This book was released on 1999-05-19 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After 1948 many opponents of apartheid were forced out of South Africa. This accessible and readable account draws upon interviews with many of those involved to examine how those activists who came to the United Kingdom developed political organisations, social networks, ideologies and identities that supported their time in exile. It examines the Anti-Apartheid Movement and the African National Congress in exile and documents the violent attempts by the South African government to control exile activity. Finally, it investigates how exiles came to terms with the possibility that they might return.
Author : Simon Gikandi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190610018
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Novel in Africa and the Caribbean since 1950 written by Simon Gikandi and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-05 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did the novel take such a long time to emerge in the colonial world? And, what cultural work did it come to perform in societies where subjects were not free and modes of social organization diverged from the European cultural centers where the novel gained its form and audience? Answering these questions and more, Volume 11, The Novel in Africa and the Caribbean since 1950 explores the institutions of cultural production that exerted influence in late colonialism, from missionary schools and metropolitan publishers to universities and small presses. How these structures provoke and respond to the literary trends and social peculiarities of Africa and the Caribbean impacts not only the writing and reading of novels in those regions, but also has a transformative effect on the novel as a global phenomenon. Together, the volume's 32 contributing experts tell a story about the close relationship between the novel and the project of decolonization, and explore the multiple ways in which novels enable readers to imagine communities beyond their own and thus made this form of literature a compelling catalyst for cultural transformation. The authors show that, even as the novel grows in Africa and the Caribbean as a mark of the elites' mastery of European form, it becomes the essential instrument for critiquing colonialism and for articulating the new horizons of cultural nationalism. Within this historical context, the volume examines works by authors such as Chinua Achebe, Nadine Gordimer, George Lamming, Jamaica Kincaid, V.S. Naipaul, Zoe Wicomb, J. M. Coetzee, and many others.
Author : Jane Watts
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349202444
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)
Download or read book Black Writers From South Africa written by Jane Watts and published by Springer. This book was released on 1989-10-02 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Horst Zander
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783823346593
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)
Download or read book Fact - Fiction - "faction" written by Horst Zander and published by Gunter Narr Verlag. This book was released on 1999 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Chapman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000431797
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)
Download or read book On Literary Attachment in South Africa written by Michael Chapman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reflects on the "literary" in literature. Less ideologically construed, more affirmative of literary attachment, the study adopts a style of intimacy – its "tough love" – in a correlation between the creative work and the critical act. Instead of configuring literary works to "state-of-the-nation" issues – the usual approach to literature from South Africa – the chapters keep alive a space for conversation, whether accented inwards to locality or outwards to the Anglophone world: the world to which literature in South Africa continues to belong, albeit as a "problem child". A postcolony that is not quite a postcolony, South Africa is richly but frustratingly textured between Africa and the West, or the South and the North. Its literature – hovering on the cusp of its locality and its global reach – raises peculiar questions of reader reception, epistemological and aesthetic frame, and archival use. Are the Nobel laureates Nadine Gordimer and J.M. Coetzee local writers or global writers? Is the novel or the short story the more appropriate form at the edges of metropolitan cultures? Given language, race, and culture contestation, how do we recover Bushman expression for contemporary use? How to consider the aesthetic appeal of two contemporaneous works, one in English the other in isiXhosa, the one indebted to Bloomsbury modernism the other to African custom? How does Douglas Livingstone attach the Third World to the First World in both science and poetry? What has a "born free" novelist, Kopano Matlwa, got to do with the Bard of Avon? In a time of theorisation, is it permissible for Lewis Nkosi to embody literary criticism in an autobiographical journey? How to read the rupturing event – the statue of Rhodes must fall – through a literary sensibility? Alert to the influence of critique, the study is equally alert to the "limits of critique". Reflecting on several writers, works, and events that do not feature in current publications, On Literary Attachment in South Africa releases literature to speak to us today, within the contours of its originating energy.
Author : Derek Jones
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136798633
Total Pages : 10599 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)
Download or read book Censorship written by Derek Jones and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2001-12-01 with total page 10599 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Astrid Starck-Adler
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 3905758954
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)
Download or read book Lewis Nkosi: The Black Psychiatrist written by Astrid Starck-Adler and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2021-05-17 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This rich volume is dedicated to the astounding South African writer and literary critic Lewis Nkosi (19362010). In this book, Nkosis celebrated one-act play The Black Psychiatrist is published together with its unpublished sequel Flying Home, a play on the satirically fictionalized inauguration of Mandela as South African president. Critical appraisals, tributes and recollections by scholars and friends reflect on the beat of his writing and life. An ideal volume for those encountering Lewis Nkosi for the first time as well as for those already devoted to his work.
