Re-imagining Africa
Subtitle: new critical perspectives
By: Sue Kossew and Dianne Schwerdt, editors.
Contributors: Kossew, Sue.; Schwerdt, Dianne.
Series: Horizons in post-colonial studies.
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Huntington, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
Subjects: African fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Congresses.; Africa -- Civilization -- 20th century -- Congresses.; Africa -- In literature -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
A selection of papers presented at the Conference of the African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific, held in Perth November 1999.
Table of contents: title: Ch. 1. Introduction / Sue Kossew and Dianne Schwerdt; title: Ch. 2. A century of Conrad's Heart of darkness / Peter Mwikisa; title: Ch. 3. Monstering the interior: internal journeys over external landscapes / Dianne Schwerdt; title: Ch. 4. Dictating currents and the questioning of tyranny in Africa: an intertextual study of Fémi Osófisan's Yungba-Yungba and the dance contest / Solá Adéyemi; title: Ch. 5. Between ancestries and amarapurs: immigrant asianness in M.G. Vassanji's fiction / Dan Odhiambo Ojwang; title: Ch. 6. Social suffering and the politics of pain: observations on the concentration camps in the Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902 / Jenny de Reuck; title: Ch. 7. "Voices from the past": the depiction of the Khoisan in contemporary Afrikaans historical novels / Luc Renders; title: Ch. 8. "A white fly on the sombre windowpane": the construction of Africa and identity in Breyten Breytenbach's poetry / Louise Viljoen; title: Ch. 9. "Something terrible happened": Nadine Gordimer's The house gun and the politics of violence and recovery in post-Apartheid South Africa / Sue Kossew; title: Ch. 10. Intertextuality in Cheikh Hamidou Kane's The ambiguous adventure: multiple readings of death / Elias K. Bongmba; title: Ch. 11. Sins of the father? Thematic concerns in South African homosexual writing / Paul C. Woods; title: Ch. 12. Elephants and the ethics of ecological criticism: a case study in recent South African fiction / Dan Wylie; title: Ch. 13. South Africa's language policy: controlled status enhancement and reduction / William W. Bostock; title: Ch. 14. African-language publishing and book promotion in South Africa, 1994-2000: some developments and ironies / Phaswane Mpe.