Title: Beyond survival : African literature & the search for new life /
Authors: Anyidoho, Kofi.; Busia, Abena P. A.; Adams, Anne V.
Publisher: Africa World Press,
Year: 1999
Subjects: African literature History and criticism Congresses
Contents: Welcome Address / J. H. Kwabena Nketia -- Presidential Opening Address / Abena P. A. Busia -- ALA Presidential Inaugural Address / Edris Makward -- Ivory Befits Her Ankles: In Celebration of Flora Nwapa and Her Legacy / Marie Umeh -- Graves Without Bodies: The Mnemomic Importance of Equiano's Autobiography / K. Opoku-Agyemang -- African Literature and the Crisis of Post-Structuralist Theorising / Niyi Osundare -- Ousmane Sembene: Griot of Modern Times & Advocate of a Casteless African Society / Edris Makward -- The Influence of Socio-Political Changes on Akan Royal Appellation Poetry / Akosua Anyidoho -- Mother Tongue: Creoles, Pidgins, Patois, and Black English as Poetic Language / Fahamisha P. Brown -- Survival Stategies and the New Life of Orality in Nigerian and Ghanaian Poetry: Osundare's Waiting Laughters and Anyidoho's EarthChild / Ezenwa-Ohaeto -- Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Decolonising Narrative: The Allegorical Imperative / Oliver Lovesey -- The Ecstatic Framework: Language, Music and Dancing in Selected Soyinka Plays / Souley Y. Ousman -- Ina Cesaire: Telling Theatricalized Tales / Judith G. Miller -- Blood, Memory, and Voice / Peter Hitchcock -- French and British Colonial language Policies: A Comparative View of their Impact on African Literature / Fredric Michelman -- The Current State of Writing and Publishing in National Languages, Literatures in Mali Today: The Case of Bamanankan / Bob Newton -- Fanon and Beyond: the "Nervous Condition" of the Colonized Woman / Renee Schatteman -- Techniques of Survival: Artful Dodges in Nigerian Urban Fiction / William Sharpe -- Beyond Streetwalking: the Woman of the City as Urban Pioneer / Heather Henderson -- From Rue cases-negres to A Dry White Season: The Evolution of Resistance in Euzhan Palcy's Films / Gerise Herndon -- Healing Life in Death through Narrative: The Power of Womanspeak in Maryse Conde's I, Tituba, Black Sorceress of Satan / M. Adjarian.