The dark edge of African literature /
"The Dark Edge of African literature proposes arguments and theories for interpretation or exposition of Africa's modern fictions irrespective of the language of narrative. It attempts to discern how such interpretation of contemporary history may be received from an African perspective an...
| Other Authors: | , |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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[Place of publication not identified] :
African Library of Critical Writing,
[2014]
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| Summary: | "The Dark Edge of African literature proposes arguments and theories for interpretation or exposition of Africa's modern fictions irrespective of the language of narrative. It attempts to discern how such interpretation of contemporary history may be received from an African perspective and what the implications are for African cultures and literatures abound by such experience. Starting with a writers profile of twentieth century African dictatorships and the African writer critical approaches on Somali, Nigerian, Kenyan, Angolan, Sudanese literatures present many different, if often not recognised, materials on uprising and resistance to readers of African literature. The physical and psychological dislocation by war, the controversy about the relational quality and dependent nature of text on context, and the exigency that informs the deliberate distortions of certain figures and images by contemporary African writers are some of the issues covered in this volume."-- Page 4 of cover |
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| Physical Description: | 170 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9783708554 9789783708556 |