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1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9789401207843
Serie:
CC v.148
Inhalt:
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 a
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: A Memory TripPartly in Tandem, Partly Quadrilogical; AFRICA, MY AFRICA; Publishing in Africa: An Overview; Charisma and Leadership in African Drama; The Little White Ship; "The Fateful 13": Sol Plaatje and the Natives' Land Act; Come Back, Dennis Brutus! Geoffrey Davis and theRediscovery of Apartheid-Era South African Literature; Space, Time, Solitude: The LiberatingContradictions of Ruth First's 117 Days; 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 ofOur Time as a Post-Apartheid Perception of Black ExperienceGirls with Guts: Writing a South African Thriller:Angela Makholwa in Conversation; The Politics of Hope: Engaging Lara FootNewton's Tshepang: The Third Testament; Rayda Jacobs's Confessions of a Gambleras Post-Apartheid Cinema; Exile and Return in Kavevangua Kahengua's Dreams; Making a 'Home' Elsewhere:The Letters of Bessie Head, 1963-1974; The Portrait of the Artist as a Younger Traveller: A Reader'sResponse 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 DawnThe Lion and the Jewel on BBC Radio: An Audience Survey; The Politics of Myth in Ayi Kwei Armah's Fragments; Oil, Masquerades, and Memory:Sokari Douglas Camp's Memorial of Ken Saro-Wiwa; Ways of Transition: Truth and Reconciliation Commissions:Controversial Strategies for Dealing with Past Violencein Societies in Transition; Freedom vs. Anticolonialism in Zimbabwe: Subversionsof the 'Third Chimurenga' Myth in African Literature; Narrative, Identity and Social Practice in Tanzania:Abdulrazak Gurnah's Ironic Paradise
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Finding Children's Voices: Using Theatre toCritique the Education System in England and EritreaWHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT; Three poems for Geoff from around the world; Les revenants / They are back!; Interview with the Last Speaker; The Nature of Tragedy; he made it - very much his story; Stock-Taking in the Guise of Some Semantic Gymnastics:A raw poem for Geoff, in honour of Hena and Anna; CODA; A Personal Dedication to Dr. Geoffrey Vernon Davis, or,a socialite gentleman scholar, cosmopolitan workaholic,connoisseur of fine books, films, wines, beers, and spirits; Notes on Contributors;
Sprache:
Englisch
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789401207843
