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Cultural dynamics of globalization and African literature / edited by Sandra Dixon and Janice Spleth.
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Language
English
French
Published/Created
Trenton, New Jersey : Africa World Press, [2016]
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x, 294 pages ; 22 cm.
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PN56.G55 C85 2016
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Subject(s)
African literature
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Literature and globalization
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Africa
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African Literature Association. Annual Conference (33rd : 2007 : Morgantown, W. Va.)
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Dixon, Sandra, 1954-
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Spleth, Janice
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Dixon, Sandra, 1954-
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Spleth, Janice
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Series
Annual selected papers of the ALA ; no. 18.
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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.
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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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