Africa in the world the world in Africa
Subtitle: essays in honor of Abiola Irele
By: edited by Biodun Jeyifo
Publisher: Africa World Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Trenton, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
Subjects: English literature; Theory; Intellectual life; African literature; African literature (English); History and criticism; In literature; Black authors
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: 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; title: 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; title: Part three. Irele writes back. Abiola Irele interviewed / by Elaine Savory.