Cultural dynamics of globalization and African literature / edited by Sandra Dixon and Janice Spleth.

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Book
Language
  • English
  • French
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Trenton, New Jersey : Africa World Press, [2016]
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x, 294 pages ; 22 cm.

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    Series
    • Annual selected papers of the ALA ; no. 18. [More in this series]
    • African Literature Association annual series ; number 18
    Notes
    "The papers for this volume were all delivered at the 33rd Annual Conference of the African Literature Association held in Morgantown, West Virginia."--Page ix.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Language note
    English and French chapters.
    Contents
    • Introduction / Janice Spleth and Sandra Dixon
    • I. Interview with Dennis Brutus
    • Random pebbles : interview with Dennis Brutus / Chinyere Nwahunanya
    • II. Slavery and colonization in a global context
    • Facing up to horror : of passion, multiple complicity, and survival in Manu Herbstein's Ama : a story of the Atlantic slave trade / Senayon S. Olaoluwa
    • Pauline Hopkins : rewriting the imperial adventure / Sarah H. Ficke
    • Sex, power, and community in Ousmane Sembene's Vehi-Ciosane / Lifongo Vetinde
    • III. Multiple dimensions of postcolonial interactions
    • A. From culture conflict to the African Renaissance
    • Narrative voice in Chimamanda Adichie's Purple hibiscus / Angela Fubara
    • Ritual and humanism in Zakes Mda's She plays with the darkness / Thomas Spreelin Macdonald
    • B. The politics of language
    • Debating the language of African literature : Ethiopian contributions / J. Roger Kurtz
    • Between Algeria and France : Assia Djebar's appropriations of cultural and racial thresholds in Fantasia : an Algerian cavalcade and So vast the prison / Irene Ivantcheva-Merjanska
    • C. Globalization, gender, and feminisms
    • Crossing borders : Black women and interracial love in Fatou Keita's Rebelle and Ken Bugul's Cendres et braises / Diahara Traore
    • La litterature sentimentale en Cote d'Ivoire : une aventure / Regina Yaou
    • New forms in Mariama Ba's Une si longue lettre : a postmodern feminist reading / Ada Uzoamaka Azodo
    • D. Cultural hybridity and immigrant identities
    • Place and non-place : spatial paradigms in contemporary francophone theater / Christophe Konkobo
    • Autochthony, cultural purity, and cosmopolitan solidarity : Doreen Baingana and the virtues of uprootedness / Chielozona Eze
    • Crossing frontiers with a glass of wine / Syl Cheney-Coker
    • Mondialisation, culture metisse, imaginaire hybride / Tierno Monenembo
    • Literature-literacy : glocally / Josefina Baez.
    Other title(s)
    Cultural dynamics of globalization & African literature
    ISBN
    • 1569024812 ((hb ; : alk. paper))
    • 9781569024812 ((hb ; : alk. paper))
    • 1569024820 ((pb ; : alk. paper))
    • 9781569024829 ((pb ; : alk. paper))
    LCCN
    2016011827
    OCLC
    945072606
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