Crossings and comparisons in African literary and cultural studies
By: Susanne Gehrmann, Pepetual Mforbe Chiangong (Eds.).
Series: LuKA, Studien zu Literaturen und Kunst Afrikas -- Band 15; LuKA, Studien zu Literaturen und Kunst Afrikas -- 15.
Publisher: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier
Published: 2022
Place of publication: Trier
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9783868219340
Copyright date: 2022
Subjects: Study and teaching; African literature; History and criticism; African languages; African prose literature; Islamic literature; Hermetism in literature; In literature; Littérature africaine; Histoire et critique; Langues africaines; Prose africaine; Littérature islamique; Hermétisme dans la littérature; Education; Literature; African culture
Description: "This book constructs a platform for the critical exploration of African literatures written in a variety of African and European languages and goes beyond the mainstream in African literary and cultural studies by engaging  multiple hermeneutic approaches to narratives, performance, and visual arts."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Crossings and comparisons in African literatures and cultures: Introduction / Susanne Gehrmann and Pepetual Mforbe Chiangong; title: African language literatures in dialogue; title: When the emperor travelled the continet. on the cosmopolis of Islamic literature and its adaptation into African languages / Clarissa Vierke; title: Rhetorical  strategies of humour in West Africa eipcs : crossing languages, genres, and media / Anne M. Carovani; title: Cross-readings of Europhone African literature; title: The representation of history in poetric space. Strategies of polyphony in contemporary African novels : Boubacar Boris Diop's Murambi and Mia Cuoto's Vinte e zinco / Lucia Weiß; title: Narrating lives and negotiating space in prison. A comparative analysis of Calixthe Beyala's Tu t'appelleras Tanga and Petina Gappah's The book of memory / Isabel Schröder; title: African child soldier narratives in children's literature. A cross-regional and cross-language comparison / Charlott Schönwetter; title: Political practice and irate satire in Cameroonian drama : a cross-language exploration of What God has put asunder by Victor Epie 'Ngome and La chèvre du sous-préfet by Charles Soh / Pepetual Mforbe Chiangong; title: Critical humanisms on the margins of African literary canons : Bakary Diallo and Richard Rive / Cullen Goldblatt; title: Crossing the languages of African music; title: Inclusive rapport : nation, language, and identity in Nigeriène and Nigerian hausa rap music / Abdalla Uba Adamu; title: Travelling without visa : Afropolitan vibe, technoculture, and the language of cultural production / Oladipupo Oyeleye; title: Entangling prose, film, and the digital space; title: From a Francophone novel to an Anglophone film : Emmanuel Dongala's Johnny chien mérchant and Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire's Johnny Mad Dog / Gbande Daré and Susanne Gehrmann; title: Virtual communication remediated. Truth, disguise, and falsity in Petina Gappah's anthology Rotten row / Ricarda de Haas; title: Disseminating and teaching African literatures; title: The compartmentalisation of literature in Kiswahili and literature in English; title: the Kenyan situation / Miriam Maranga-Musonye; title: New African trajectories beyond Francophie. Festivals, anthologies, research / Bernadette Desorbay.