UID:
almahu_9949703788102882
Umfang:
1 online resource (384 pages) :
,
illustrations.
ISBN:
9789004659056
Serie:
Literature and Cultural Studies - Book Archive pre-2000 15-16
Inhalt:
Matatu is a journal on African literatures and societies dedicated to interdisciplinary dialogue between literary and cultural studies, historiography, the social sciences and cultural anthropology. Matatu is animated by a lively interest in African culture and literature (including the Afro-Caribbean) that moves beyond worn-out clichés of "cultural authenticity" and "national liberation" towards critical exploration of African modernities. The East African public transport vehicle from which Matatu takes its name is both a component and a symbol of these modernities: based on "Western" (these days usually Japanese) technology, it is a vigorously African institution; it is usually regarded with some anxiety by those travelling in it, but is often enough the only means of transport available; it creates temporary communicative communities and provides a transient site for the exchange of news, storytelling, and political debate. Matatu is firmly committed to supporting democratic change in Africa, to providing a forum for interchanges between African and European critical debates, to overcoming notions of absolute cultural, ethnic, or religious alterity, and to promoting transnational discussion on the future of African societies in a wider world. Matatu will be published as journal as of 2016. All back volumes are still available in print.
Anmerkung:
Preliminary Material /
,
English
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version: Afrikaans Literature: Recollection, Redefinition, Restitution : Papers held at the 7th Conference on South African Literature at the Protestant Academy, Bad Boll. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 1996. ISBN 9789042000537
Sprache:
Englisch
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