Dealing with evils
Subtitle: essays on writing from Africa
By: Annie Gagiano
Series: Studies in English literatures -- v. 11; Studies in English literatures -- Bd. 11.
Publisher: Ibidem
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Stuttgart
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9783898218672
Copyright date: 2008
Subjects: African literature (English); History and criticism; Southern African literature (English); African fiction (English); Southern African fiction (English); In literature; Aufsatzsammlung; Literatur
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Listening for the mediated voices of the Southern African Khoisan in Hendrik's Dwaalstories : ironies and wonders; title: Marecheran postmodernism : mocking the bad joke of  "African modernity; title: Anomy and agony in a nation in crisis : Soyinka's Season of anomy; title: Finding foundations for change in Bessie Head's The cardinals; title: Blood gets a voice : Unity Dow's The screaming of the innocent; title: Two late apartheid-era novels : balancing the books in the South African present; title: Mongane Serote's To every birth its blood : painting the true colours of apartheid; title: Shakespeare, (Fanon,) Salih : Can the black man love the white woman? Can the white woman love the black man?; title: A.C. Jordan's Tales from southern Africa; title: Memory, power and Bessie Head : A question of power; title: Patterns of leadership in Bessie Head's Maru and A bewitched crossroad: an African saga; title: "Barbarism" and "civilisation" in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus and in Marachera's Black sunlight; title: Appreciating Nuruddin Farah's Secrets.