New studies in African literature
By: edited by Umar Abdurrahman
Contributors: Ojaide, Tanure, 1948- author of introduction; Mbele, Joseph, contributor; Kezilahabi, Euphrase, contributor; Ojaruega, Enajite Eseoghene, contributor; Eni, Kenneth E., contributor; Okwechime, Okey, contributor; Binebai, Ben, contributor; Mack, Beverty, contributor; Orji-Mba, Onwukah Benjamin, contributor; Oladosu, Afis Ayinde, contributor; Gomba, Obari, contributor; Egya, Sule E., 1976- contributor; El-Nagar, Hassan Abdel Razig, contributor; Vetinde, Lifongo J., contributor; Okpanachi, Musa Idris, 1956- contributor; Roselezam Wan Yahya, Wan, contributor; Abdullah, Noor Azah Catherine, contributor; Singh, Hardev Kaur Jujar, contributor; Mani, Manimangai, contributor; Adama, Lami C., contributor; Rassoul, Djamoukhanov, contributor; Akhter, Bilkis, contributor
Publisher: Kraft Books Limited
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Ibadan, Nigeria
Language: eng
Number of pages: 377
ISBN-13: 9789789184651
Subjects: African literature; Study and teaching; African fiction; African drama; African poetry; African Folk literature
Description: "...introduces African Literature to students and scholars at all levels of education. It is a collection of essays on all the genres of African literature--including oral poetry--covering different periods. The essays examine and discuss new African sensibilites and realities that are captured in the continent's dynamic literature."--back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Dedication; title: Acknowledgements; title: Disclaimer; title: Preface; title: African literature: An introduction / by Tanure Ojaide; title: Section one: Oral literature. African oral poetry / Joseph L. Mbele ; Erasure and the centrality of literatures in African languages / E. Kezilahabi ; Orality and its resources in storytelling in three Nigerian women's Civil War novels / Enajite E. Ojaruega; title: Section two: Play. Negotiating change: Feminist dimensions in Zulu Sofola's Wedlock of the Gods / Kenneth Efakponana Eni ; Chaos according to plan: A study of Hope Eghagha's Death Not a Redeemer / Okey Okwechime ; Dimensions of nationalism in Ola Rotimi's Kurunmi / Benedict Binebai; title: Section three: Poetry. Nana Asma'u: 19th century West African poet and educator / Beverty Mack ; Eco-critical imagery in Idris Amalfs poetry: A preliminary investigation / Onwukah Benjamin Orji-Mba ; Postcolonialism in Arab African poetry / Afis Ayinde Oladosu ; Tanure Ojaide's poetry on the Slick Alliance: From colonial to postcolonial / Obari Gomba; title: Section four: Novel. A short introduction to Cyprian Ekwensi's urban novels / Umar Abdurrahman ; The body as site of trauma: Zaynab Alkali's The Descendants and Unoma Azuah's Sky-High Flames / Sule E. Egya ; Technical artistry in Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North / Hassan A. El-Nagar ; The semiotics of food in Camara Laye's The Dark Child and Sembene Ousmane's Guelwaar / Lifongo Vetinde ; Discourse, myth and Ben Okri's Worlds of Spirits / Musa Idris Okpanachi ; Religiosity, Queer passion and prostitution in Naguib Mahfouz's Midaq Alley / Wan Roselezam Wan Yahya, Noor Azah Catherine Abdullah ; The concept of 'ubuntu' in the reconciliation process in the post-Apartheid South Africa as seen in Zakes Mda's Ways of Dying / Hardev Kaur Jujar Singh ; Self conflict in Naguib Mahfouz's Palace Walk / Manimangai Mani ; The concept of African womanhood and motherhood in Chimamanda Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun / Lami C. Adama ; The abstract man: Albert Camus's absurd hero in The Stranger / Djamoukhanov Rassoul ; Regeneration of the human soul in Saul Bellow's Henderson the Rain King / Bilkis Akhter; title: Briefs on the contributors; title: Index.