Search Results for African literature

... collection of essays on South African “histories of the book”; and coeditor of Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies . He also writes about South African art and postcolonial queer studies. South African Literature beyond the Cold War . By Popescu Monica . New York...

...Peter Kalliney Abstract Modernist concepts, especially aesthetic autonomy, were fundamental to the literature of decolonization in anglophone Africa. An archival examination of Black Orpheus , Transition , the Transcription Centre, and the African Writers of English Expression conference...

...Laura Chrisman [email protected] At Penpoint: African Literatures, Postcolonial Studies, and the Cold War . By Monica Popescu . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2020 . x + 258 pp. Copyright © 2022 by University of Washington 2022 Investigation of the Cold War’s cultural...

...Eleni Coundouriotis Abstract The African novel has had an uneasy relationship with world literature, but a way to locate the historical novel in world literature lies in the emphatic turn of African fiction to the historical novel. Positing a temporality of a decolonization not yet achieved...

...Nicholas T Rinehart Reaping Something New: African American Transformations of Victorian Literature . By Hack Daniel . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2017 . xiii + 284 pp. Copyright © 2018 by University of Washington 2018 Daniel Hack’s new book is a story about...

... in the canon of early twentieth-century African American literature,” but “to think critically about the terms and conditions of her ‘failure’” (190). Doing so opens up space for literary history to “account for writers that ‘opted out’ or otherwise refused to make the sort of compromises in their writing...

...Richard Watts The Black Renaissance in Francophone African and Caribbean Literatures . By K. Martial Frindéthié. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008. v + 209 pp. University of Washington 2009 Richard Watts, associate professor of French at the University of Washington, is author...

... that Achebe and others were somewhat taken aback by the warm reception accorded Tutuola. But not only Africans were shocked. Africanists of Euro- American background, such as the pathbreaking anthropologist Melville Herskovits, who taught literature and was early on concerned with the work of African...

... was to produce a literature with an African referent in a language that deconstructed the mimetic contract as one of the operating signatures of colonial governmentality. In their literary ideologies and formal preferences, these writers did not consider romance, realism, and modernism separate categories...

... will be derivative in some invidious way, nor does he expect their value to rise in proportion to their newness. He also views literature in Kenya as free to draw on both European and African traditions — or to reject them. To Ng ˜ug his use of European...

... Literature in the World: Imagining a Post-colonial Public Sphere .” Keynote address at the 2017 annual meeting of the African Literature Association, Yale University, June 16 . www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6g1pL0qTuE . Gilman Sander L. 2004 . “ Collaboration, the Economy, and the Future...

... of traditionally marginalized literatures such as those of the African American vernacular tradition. Copyright © 2020 by University of Washington 2020 Langston Hughes historical poetics cognitive poetics prosody African American vernacular 8 By some I especially have in mind contributors...

... African literature came up during the last reorganization of forums, members of the division settled on dividing African literature between works published before 1990 and works published after. As far as I can tell (or recall), there was no compelling epistemological or ontological reason for selecting...

... Literature not, be it emphasized, a guide to the literature of England, but to literature in English. Thus earlier volumes have included chapters on Scots, Welsh, Australian and African literature; and this volume is entirely devoted to American writers. 15 This description is, of course, no more than...

..., with an introduction, by Mark Poster. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988. vii + 230 pp. $32.50, cloth; $10.95, paper. Bishop, Rand. African Literature, African Critics: The Forming of Critical Standards, 1947-1966. Westport, Conn., and London: G'reenwood Press, Contributions in Afro-American...

... MLQ June 2012 South African Literature beyond the Cold War. By Monica Popescu. MLQ December 2011 New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. xi + 237 pp. Performing a New France Monica Popescu’s point of departure in this illuminating and thoroughly...

... MLQ June 2012 South African Literature beyond the Cold War. By Monica Popescu. MLQ December 2011 New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. xi + 237 pp. Performing a New France Monica Popescu’s point of departure in this illuminating and thoroughly...

... of French and francophone studies and also teaches in the International Studies and Women’s Studies Programs at Vassar College. DOI 10.1215/00267929-1589203 248 MLQ June 2012 South African Literature beyond the Cold War...

... at Vassar College. DOI 10.1215/00267929-1589203 248 MLQ June 2012 South African Literature beyond the Cold War. By Monica Popescu. MLQ December 2011 New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. xi + 237 pp. Performing a New...

...” (Chakrabarty 2021 ). See also Baucom 2020 , DeLoughrey 2019 , and Wenzel 2020 , which focus on works from postcolonial and diasporic African, Caribbean, Black Atlantic, and Pacific Islands literatures. This essay’s examples are drawn primarily from my research field of South Asian Anglophone literature...