Moral imaginations in postcolonial African literature and culture
By: Chielozona Eze
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lanham, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 137
ISBN-13: 9780739145067; 9780739145081
Subjects: African literature; Postcolonialism in literature; Intellectual life; History and criticism; Ethics in literature; Postcolonialism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Postcolonial states of injury and moral imaginations; title: The moral reinvention of Africa; title: Things fall apart and the invention of the African culture; title: The pitfalls of African feminism; title: Robert Mugabe and the symbolic power of history; title: Frantz Fanon and the search for new discourse paradigms; title: Wole Soyinka and the moral foundations of community; title: Literature and the task of increasing the sum total of humanity.