Africa in the world & the world in Africa : essays in honor of Abiola Irele /
Irele, Abiola.
Jeyifo, Biodun,1946-
Trenton, N.J. ; London : Africa World Press,
c2011.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Part one. Irele as prism. Meditations, mediations and historicity in the work of Abiola Irele / Jean-Godefroy Bidima; Literary Africa / Olakunle George; After us, penultimate, barbarisms? / Biodun Jeyifo; The hearth and the world: cultural identity and African literary criticism / Mpalive-Hangson Msiska; On postcoloniality and alienation: Abiola Irele's "In praise of alienation" reconsidered / Tejumola Olaniyan -- Part two. Beyond the horizons of the present. The humanities and a new ethics of locality in Africa / Moradeun Adejunmobi; the ambiguous adventures of Caryl Philips' Tim Cribb / Akin Adesokan; Antigone in Yorubaland / Femi Osofisan; Re-thinking the critical location of Kamau Brathwaite and Derek Walcott / Elaine Savory; Creative pursuit in global Time / Wole Soyinka -- Part three. Irele writes back. Abiola Irele interviewed / by Elaine Savory.
Irele, Abiola.
African literature
African literature (English)
English literature