UID:
almahu_9949701598202882
Format:
1 online resource (xxx, 380 pages :) :
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color illustrations.
ISBN:
9789401207843
Series Statement:
Cross/cultures ; 148
Content:
This collection ranges far and wide, as befits the personality and accomplishments of the dedicatee, Geoffrey V. Davis, German studies and exile literature scholar, postcolonialist (if there are 'specialties', then Australia, Canada, India, South Africa, Black Britain), journal and book series editor.... Themes covered include publishing in Africa, charisma in African drama, the rediscovery of apartheid-era South African literature, Truth and Reconciliation commissions, South African cinema, children's theatre in England and Eritrea, and the Third Chimurenga in literary anthologies. Surveyed are texts from Botswana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe. Writers discussed (or interviewed: Angela Makholwa) include Ayi Kwei Armah, Seydou Badian, J.M. Coetzee, Chielo Zona Eze, Ruth First, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Bessie Head, Ian Holding, Kavevangua Kahengua, Njabulo Ndebele, Lara Foot Newton, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o/Micere Githae Mugo, Sol Plaatje, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Mongane Wally Serote, Wole Soyinka, and Edgar Wallace, together with essays on the artist Sokari Douglas Camp and the filmmaker Rayda Jacobs. Because Geoff's commitment to literature has always been 'hands-on', the book closes with a selection of poems and an entertaining travelogue/memoir.
Note:
Preliminary Material --
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Publishing in Africa: An Overview /
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Charisma and Leadership in African Drama /
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The Little White Ship /
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"The Fateful 13": Sol Plaatje and the Natives' Land Act /
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Come Back, Dennis Brutus!: Geoffrey Davis and the Rediscovery of Apartheid-Era South African Literature1 /
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Space, Time, Solitude: The Liberating Contradictions of Ruth First's 117 Days /
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Njabulo Ndebele: From Rediscovering the 'Ordinary' to Redefining South African 'Renaissance' /
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To Every Miracle Its Gods: Mongane Wally Serote's Gods of Our Time as a Post-Apartheid Perception of Black Experience /
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Girls with Guts: Writing a South African Thriller-Angela Makholwa in Conversation /
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The Politics of Hope: Engaging Lara Foot Newton's Tshepang: The Third Testament /
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Rayda Jacobs's Confessions of a Gambler as Post-Apartheid Cinema /
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Exile and Return in Kavevangua Kahengua's Dreams /
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Making a 'Home' Elsewhere: The Letters of Bessie Head, 1963-1974 /
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The Portrait of the Artist as a Younger Traveller: A Reader's Response to Wole Soyinka's You Must Set Forth at Dawn /
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Putting Freedom to the Test Wole Soyinka's You Must Set Forth at Dawn /
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The Lion and the Jewel on BBC Radio: An Audience Survey /
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The Politics of Myth in Ayi Kwei Armah's Fragments /
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Oil, Masquerades, and Memory: Sokari Douglas Camp's Memorial of Ken Saro-Wiwa /
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Ways of Transition: Truth and Reconciliation Commissions: Controversial Strategies for Dealing with Past Violence in Societies in Transition /
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Freedom vs. Anticolonialism in Zimbabwe: Subversions of the 'Third Chimurenga' Myth in African Literature /
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Narrative, Identity, and Social Practice in Tanzania: Abdulrazak Gurnah's Ironic Paradise /
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Finding Children's Voices: Using Theatre to Critique the Education System in England and Eritrea /
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Three poems for Geoff from around the world /
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Les revenants /
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Interview with the Last Speaker /
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The Nature of Tragedy /
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he made it - very much his story /
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Stock-Taking in the Guise of Some Semantic Gymnastics: A raw poem for Geoff, in honour of Hena and Anna /
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A Personal Dedication to Dr. Geoffrey Vernon Davis: or, a socialite gentleman scholar, cosmopolitan workaholic, connoisseur of fine books, films, wines, beers, and spirits /
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Notes on Contributors.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Engaging with Literature of Commitment. Volume 1: Africa in the World Leiden, Boston : Brill | Rodopi, 2012, ISBN 9789042035089
Language:
English
Keywords:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
