The dark edge of African literature
By: Smith and Ce (ed.).
Publisher: African Library of Critical Writing
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Place of publication not identified]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9789783708556
Subjects: African literature; History and criticism; Political violence in literature
Description: "The Dark Edge of African literature proposes arguments and theories for interpretation or exposition of Africa's modern fictions irrespective of the language of narrative. It attempts to discern how such interpretation of contemporary history may be received from an African perspective and what the implications are for African cultures and literatures abound by such experience. Starting with a writers profile of twentieth century African dictatorships and the African writer critical approaches on Somali, Nigerian, Kenyan, Angolan, Sudanese literatures present many different, if often not recognised, materials on uprising and resistance to readers of African literature. The physical and psychological dislocation by war, the controversy about the relational quality and dependent nature of text on context, and the exigency that informs the deliberate distortions of certain figures and images by contemporary African writers are some of the issues covered in this volume."-- Page 4 of cover
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.