The African Novel in English - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The African Novel in English write by M. Keith Booker. This book was released on 1998. The African Novel in English available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In The African Novel in English Keith Booker uses eight African novels to illustrate the scopes, varieties and the general aesthetic, cultural, and political concerns that have motivated African authors.
The Rise of the African Novel
The Rise of the African Novel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Rise of the African Novel write by Mukoma Wa Ngugi. This book was released on 2018-03-27. The Rise of the African Novel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Engaging questions of language, identity, and reception to restore South African and diaspora writing to the African literary tradition
Teaching the African Novel
Teaching the African Novel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Teaching the African Novel write by Gaurav Desai. This book was released on 2009-01-01. Teaching the African Novel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What is the African novel, and how should it be taught? The twenty-three essays of this volume address these two questions and in the process convey a wealth of information and ideas about the diverse regions, peoples, nations, languages, and writers of the African continent. Topics include Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's favoring of indigenous languages and literary traditions over European; the special place of Marxism in African letters;the influence of Frantz Fanon; women writers and the sub-Saharan novel;the Maghrebian novel;the novel and the griot epic in the Sahel;Islam in the West African novel;novels in Spanish from Equatorial Guinea;apartheid and postapartheid fiction;African writers in the diaspora;globalization in East African fiction; teaching Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart to students in different countries;the Onitsha market romance. The volume editor, Gaurav Desai, writes, "The point of the volume is to encourage a reading of Africa that is sensitive to its history of colonization but at the same time responsive to its present multiracial and multicultural condition."
The African Novel of Ideas
The African Novel of Ideas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The African Novel of Ideas write by Jeanne-Marie Jackson. This book was released on 2021-01-12. The African Novel of Ideas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An ambitious look at the African novel and its connections to African philosophy in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries The African Novel of Ideas focuses on the role of the philosophical novel and the place of philosophy more broadly in the intellectual life of the African continent, from the early twentieth century to today. Examining works from the Gold Coast, South Africa, Uganda, and Zimbabwe, and tracing how such writers as J. E. Casely Hayford, Imraan Coovadia, Tendai Huchu, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, and Stanlake Samkange reconcile deep contemplation with their social situations, Jeanne-Marie Jackson offers a new way of reading and understanding African literature. Jackson begins with Fante anticolonial worldliness in prenationalist Ghana, moves through efforts to systematize Shona philosophy in 1970s Zimbabwe, looks at the Ugandan novel Kintu as a treatise on pluralistic rationality, and arrives at the treatment of “philosophical suicide” by current southern African writers. As Jackson charts philosophy's evolution from a dominant to marginal presence in African literary discourse across the past hundred years, she assesses the push and pull of subjective experience and abstract thought. The first major transnational exploration of African literature in conversation with philosophy, The African Novel of Ideas redefines the place of the African experience within literary history.
Things Fall Apart
Things Fall Apart - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Things Fall Apart write by Chinua Achebe. This book was released on 1994-09-01. Things Fall Apart available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “A true classic of world literature . . . A masterpiece that has inspired generations of writers in Nigeria, across Africa, and around the world.” —Barack Obama “African literature is incomplete and unthinkable without the works of Chinua Achebe.” —Toni Morrison Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Things Fall Apart is the first of three novels in Chinua Achebe's critically acclaimed African Trilogy. It is a classic narrative about Africa's cataclysmic encounter with Europe as it establishes a colonial presence on the continent. Told through the fictional experiences of Okonkwo, a wealthy and fearless Igbo warrior of Umuofia in the late 1800s, Things Fall Apart explores one man's futile resistance to the devaluing of his Igbo traditions by British political andreligious forces and his despair as his community capitulates to the powerful new order. With more than 20 million copies sold and translated into fifty-seven languages, Things Fall Apart provides one of the most illuminating and permanent monuments to African experience. Achebe does not only capture life in a pre-colonial African village, he conveys the tragedy of the loss of that world while broadening our understanding of our contemporary realities.
