Format:
1 Online-Ressource (444 pages)
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illustrations
ISBN:
9789401207553
Series Statement:
Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft 154
Content:
Preliminary Material -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword /Chin Ce -- Linguistic (Re)turn and Craft in Contemporary African Literature /Russell West-Pavlov and J. K. S. Makokha -- Towards a Stylistic Model for Analysing Anglophone African Literatures: Preliminary Epistemological Considerations and a Case Study /Daria Tunca -- Current Issues and Trends in African Verbal Stylistics: The Yoruba Example /Adesola Olateju -- Nnu Ego on the Verge of Feminist Consciousness: Feminist Stylistics and Buchi Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood /K. M. Mathews -- Narratives of a Wounded Time: Yvonne Vera’s Poetics of Trauma /Martina Kopf -- Speaking the Unspeakable in Iweala and Kourouma: The Trauma of Child Soldiers, Literary Stylistics and Story Telling /Russell West-Pavlov -- Autobiographical Memory and Identity Construction in Tayo Olafioye’s Grandma’s Sun /Adeyemi Adegoju -- Carl de Souza’s La maison qui marchait vers le large and the Multicultural Mauritian city /Shawkat M. Toorawa -- A Stylistic Study of Metaphors in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart /Adeyemi Daramola -- Stylistic Features of Igbo Riddles /Iwu Ikwubuzo -- On Stylistic Trends in Modern Swahili Poetry /Mikhail Gromov -- New Wine in Old Wineskins: Stylistic Provisions of Orature’s Call and Response for Contemporary Discourses in Gikuyu Popular Music /Michael Wainaina -- Acitivistic Undertones in the Music of Women: A Psychonalytic and Stylistic Reading of Agnes Mbuta’s Dhiang’ Othuwowa gi Chuo /James Odhiambo Ogone and Ogone John Obiero -- Chronotopes of the (Post-) Colonial Condition in Otjiherero Praise Poetry /Anette Hoffmann -- Metapoesis and ‘the Art of Chameleons’ in Steve Chimombo’s Poetry /Bright Molande -- Female Sexuality under the Male Gaze: Reading Style and Ideology in Bole Butake’s The Rape of Michelle /Naomi Nkealah -- Figuration of ‘troubled motherhood’ and Feminization of the Ugandan Nation in John Ruganda’s Plays /Chris Wasike -- Language and Meaning in Efo Mawugbe’s In the Chest of a Woman /Victor Yankah -- Incantation as Discourse: A Discourse-Stylistic Study of the Confrontational Scene of Ola Rotimi’s The Gods are Not to Blame /Ibrahim Esan Olaosun -- Contributors.
Content:
Postcolonial and contemporary African literatures have always been marked by an acute sensitivity to the politics of language, an attentiveness inscribed in the linguistic fabric of their own modes of expression. It is curious however, that despite the prevalence of a much-touted ‘linguistic turn’ in twentieth century theory and cultural production, language has frequently been neglected by literary studies in general. Even more curiously, postcolonial literary studies, an erstwhile emergent and now established discipline which has from the outset contained important elements of linguistic critique, has eschewed any sustained engagement with this topic. This absence is salient in the study of African literatures, despite, for instance, the prominence of orature in the African literary tradition right up to the present day, and sporadic meditations on the part of such luminaries as Achebe and Ngũgĩ. Beyond this, however, there has been little scholarly work attuned to the multifarious aspects of language and linguistic politics in the study of African literature. The present volume aims to rectify such lacunae by making a substantial interdisciplinary and transcultural contribution to the gradual reinstatement of the ‘linguistic turn’ in African literary studies. The volume focuses variously on postcolonial and transcultural African literatures, areas of literary production where the confluence of several languages, whether indigenous and (post)colonial in the first case, and local and global in the second case, appears to be a central and decisive factor in the formation and transformation of the continent and its peoples’ cultural identities
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
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English; one contribution in French
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789042034761
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Style in African literature Amsterdam ; New York : Editions Rodopi, 2012
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1163/9789401207553
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