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| Title: | Re-Imagining Africa
: New Critical Perspectives |
| Series: | (Horizons in Post-Colonial Studies Series) |
| Author: | Sue Kossew et al (eds) |
| ISBN: | 1590331001 : 9781590331002 |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Size: | 155x230mm |
| Pages: | 228 |
| Weight: | .526 Kg. |
| Published: | Nova Science Publishers - February 2002 |
| List Price: | 59.5 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Cultural studies: AFRICA |
This book provides a plethora of insights and perspectives that take up and challenge prevailing points of view about today's Africa. The chapters examine a number of different media and topics: from African theatre to poetry, from accounts of personal history to South Africa's language policy and publishing practices. Their unifying theme is a search for tomorrow's cultural trends in an ever-changing Africa.
Contents: Introduction; A Century of Conrad's Heart of Darkness; Monstering the Interior; Internal Journeys Over External Landscapes; Dictating Currents and the Questioning of Tyranny in Africa: An Intertextual Study of Femi Osofisan's Yungba-Yungba and the Dance Contest; Between Ancestries and Amarapurs: Immigrant Asianess in M.G. Vassanji's Fiction; Social Suffering and the Politics of Pain: Observations on the Concentration Camps in the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902; "Voices from the Past": The Depiction of the Khoisan in Contemporary Afrikaan's Historical Novels; " A White Fly on the Sombre Windowpane": The Construction of Africa and identity in Breyten Breytenbach's Poetry; "Something Terrible Happened": Nadine Gordimer's The House Gun and the Politics of Violence and Recovery in Post-Apartheid South Africa; Intertextuality in Cheikh Hamidou Kane's The Ambiguous Adventure: Multiple Readings of Death; Sins of the Father? Thematic Concerns in South African Homosexual Writing; Elephants and the Ethics of Ecological Criticism: A Case Study in Recent South African Fiction; South Africa's Language Policy: Controlled Status Enhancement and Reduction; African-Language Publishing and Book Promotion in South Africa, 1994-2000: Some Developments and Ironies; Index.
