TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chirambo,Reuben Makayiko
AU  - Makokha,J.K.S.
TI  - Reading contemporary African literature.: Critical perspectives
T2  - Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft
SN  - 9042036753
AV  - PL 8010 .R433 2013
U1  - 809.896 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Amsterdam, New York
PB  - Rodopi
KW  - African literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - fast
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Section I; General perspectives --; "English does not kill": writing lives in the language of the "other"; Stella Borg Barthet --; Section II; Fiction --; A stylistic analysis of the story element in Ngugi's A grain of wheat; Sarala Krishnamurthy --; Mahilet : a laboratory of stylistic experimentation; Tewodros Gebre --; Through the male eyes : gendered styles in contemporary Zambian fiction; Cheela Chilala --; Politics and stylistics of female (re)presentation in James Ng'ombe's Sugarcane with salt; Nick Mdika Tembo --; Telling lives : myth, metaphor and metafiction in Zakes Mda's Cion; Marita Wenzel --; Politics and poetics of characterization in M. G. Vassanji's The book of secrets; J. K. S. Makokha --; The invisible twin : visibility and identity in Marie-Thérèse Humbert's À l'autre bout de moi; Stephanie Cox --; Thematic design and stylistic patterns in Cameron Duodu's The gab boys; Kofi Owusu --; "We can redeem this world and make the dream real" : the utopian quest in Ben Okri's primary myths; Abiodun Adeniji --; Orality and the emergence of disrupted narrative voices in Charles Samupindi's Pawns; Maurice Taonezvi Vambe --; "Zimbolicious" : Shona-English stylistics in lyrics and literature; Flora Veit-Wild --; Section III; Poetry and orature --; Repression and beyond : ideological commitment and style in Jack Mapanje's and Steve Chimombo's poetry; Reuben Makayiko Chirambo --; Oguaa aban and Cape Coast Castle : same edifice, different metaphors in the poetry of Gaddiel Acquaah and Kwadwo Opuku-Agyemang; Leonard Acquah --; Self and nature : tthe Cean dialogues; Gloria M. T. Emezue --; Transitions in South African urban poetry : the city of Johannesburg in three poems of the apartheid period; Sonja Altnöder --; Verbal fluidities and masculine anxieties of the glocal urban imaginary in Kenyan genge rap; Chris Wasike --; Section IV; Drama and theatre --; Language use and identity negotiation in Cameroonian drama; Kizitus Mpoche --; Afrikaans and Afrikaner nationalism in Deon Opperman's Donkerland; Marisa Keuris --; "Neither peace nor war" : the role of theatre in re-imagining the new Eritrea; Richard Boon
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