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The Palm-wine Drinkard ; And, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts

Author	: Amos Tutuola
Publisher	: Grove Press
Release Date	: 1994
ISBN 10	: 0802133630
Pages	: 330 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (3 users)

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Download or read book The Palm-wine Drinkard ; And, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts written by Amos Tutuola and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ghosts live in the center of the jungle and this tells of what happens to the mortals who venture into the world of the ghosts.

My Life in the Bush of Ghosts

Author	: Amos Tutuola
Publisher	: Faber & Faber
Release Date	: 2014-07-01
ISBN 10	: 9780571311552
Pages	: 176 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (115 users)

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Download or read book My Life in the Bush of Ghosts written by Amos Tutuola and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, Amos Tutuola's second novel, was first published in 1954. It tells the tale of a small boy who wanders into the heart of a fantastical African forest, the dwelling place of innumerable wild, grotesque and terrifying beings. He is captured by ghosts, buried alive and wrapped up in spider webs, but after several years he marries and accepts his new existence. With the appearance of the television-handed ghostess, however, comes a possible route of escape. 'Tutuola ... has the immediate intuition of a creative artist working by spell and incantation.' V. S. Pritchett, New Statesman

Bearing Witness

Author	: Wendy Griswold
Publisher	: Princeton University Press
Release Date	: 2018-06-05
ISBN 10	: 9780691186306
Pages	: 340 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (863 users)

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Download or read book Bearing Witness written by Wendy Griswold and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greed, frustrated love, traffic jams, infertility, politics, polygamy. These--together with depictions of traditional village life and the impact of colonialism made familiar to Western readers through Chinua Achebe's writing--are the stuff of Nigerian fiction. Bearing Witness examines this varied content and the determined people who, against all odds, write, publish, sell, and read novels in Africa's most populous nation. Drawing on interviews with Nigeria's writers, publishers, booksellers, and readers, surveys, and a careful reading of close to 500 Nigerian novels--from lightweight romances to literary masterpieces--Wendy Griswold explores how global cultural flows and local conflicts meet in the production and reception of fiction. She argues that Nigerian readers and writers form a reading class that unabashedly believes in progress, rationality, and the slow-but-inevitable rise of a reading culture. But they do so within a society that does not support their assumptions and does not trust literature, making them modernists in a country that is simultaneously premodern and postmodern. Without privacy, reliable electricity, political freedom, or even social toleration of bookworms, these Nigerians write and read political satires, formula romances, war stories, complex gender fiction, blood-and-sex crime capers, nostalgic portraits of village life, and profound explorations of how decent people get by amid urban chaos. Bearing Witness is an inventive and moving work of cultural sociology that may be the most comprehensive sociological analysis of a literary system ever written.

Publishing the Postcolonial

Author	: Gail Low
Publisher	: Routledge
Release Date	: 2020-07-24
ISBN 10	: 9781000155488
Pages	: 200 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (554 users)

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Download or read book Publishing the Postcolonial written by Gail Low and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-24 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how writers such as Amos Tutuola, George Lamming, Samuel Selvon, VS Naipaul, Chinua Achebe, Derek Walcott, Kamau Brathwaite, and Wole Soyinka came to be published in London in important educational series such as the Three Crown Series and African Writers Series. Low takes account of recent debates in the discipline of book history, especially issues that deal with social, cultural, and economic questions of authorship, publishing histories, canon formation, and the production, distribution and reception of texts in the literary market place. Searching publishing archives for readers reports, editorial correspondence, and interventions, this book represents a necessary exploration of postwar publishing contexts and the dissemination of texts from London that is crucial to literary histories of the postcolonial book. Taken together as a postwar generation, this cohort of now canonical writers helped "imagine" their respective national communities, yet their intellectual labors entered an elite transnational literary circuit, and correspondingly, were transformed into textual commodities by the economic, social, cultural, and institutional transactions that were part of an expanding print capitalism.

Pre-Colonial Africa in Colonial African Narratives

Author	: Donald R. Wehrs
Publisher	: Routledge
Release Date	: 2016-04-08
ISBN 10	: 9781317076292
Pages	: 222 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (762 users)

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Download or read book Pre-Colonial Africa in Colonial African Narratives written by Donald R. Wehrs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his study of the origins of political reflection in twentieth-century African fiction, Donald Wehrs examines a neglected but important body of African texts written in colonial (English and French) and indigenous (Hausa and Yoruba) languages. He explores pioneering narrative representations of pre-colonial African history and society in seven texts: Casely Hayford's Ethiopia Unbound (1911), Alhaji Sir Abubaker Tafawa Balewa's Shaihu Umar (1934), Paul Hazoumé's Doguicimi (1938), D.O. Fagunwa's Forest of a Thousand Daemons (1938), Amos Tutuola's The Palm-Wine Drinkard (1952) and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (1954), and Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart (1958). Wehrs highlights the role of pre-colonial political economies and articulations of state power on colonial-era considerations of ethical and political issues, and is attentive to the gendered implications of texts and authorial choices. By positioning Things Fall Apart as the culmination of a tradition, rather than as its inaugural work, he also reconfigures how we think of African fiction. His book supplements recent work on the importance of indigenous contexts and discourses in situating colonial-era narratives and will inspire fresh methodological strategies for studying the continent from a multiplicity of perspectives.

Commonwealth of Letters

Author	: Peter J. Kalliney
Publisher	: Oxford University Press
Release Date	: 2013-09-19
ISBN 10	: 9780199977970
Pages	: 333 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (779 users)

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Download or read book Commonwealth of Letters written by Peter J. Kalliney and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Kalliney's original archival work demonstrates that metropolitan and colonial intellectuals used modernist theories of aesthetic autonomy to facilitate collaborative ventures.

Drinking from the Cosmic Gourd

Author	: B. Nyamnjoh
Publisher	: African Books Collective
Release Date	: 2017-03-15
ISBN 10	: 9789956764181
Pages	: 326 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (641 users)

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Download or read book Drinking from the Cosmic Gourd written by B. Nyamnjoh and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2017-03-15 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book questions colonial and apartheid ideologies on being human and being African, ideologies that continue to shape how research is conceptualised, taught and practiced in universities across Africa. Africans immersed in popular traditions of meaning-making are denied the right, by those who police the borders of knowledge, to think and represent their realities in accordance with the civilisations and universes they know best. Often, the ways of life they cherish are labelled and dismissed too eagerly as traditional knowledge by some of the very African intellectual elite they look to for protection. The book makes a case for sidestepped traditions of knowledge. It draws attention to Africa's possibilities, prospects and emergent capacities for being and becoming in tune with its creativity and imagination. It speaks to the nimble-footed flexible-minded 'frontier African' at the crossroads and junctions of encounters, facilitating creative conversations and challenging regressive logics of exclusionary identities. The book uses Amos Tutuola's stories to question dualistic assumptions about reality and scholarship, and to call for conviviality, interconnections and interdependence between competing knowledge traditions in Africa.

Worlds Enough

Author	: Elaine Freedgood
Publisher	: Princeton University Press
Release Date	: 2022-01-11
ISBN 10	: 9780691227818
Pages	: 178 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (278 users)

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Download or read book Worlds Enough written by Elaine Freedgood and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A short, provocative book that challenges basic assumptions about Victorian fiction Now praised for its realism and formal coherence, the Victorian novel was not always great, or even good, in the eyes of its critics. As Elaine Freedgood reveals in Worlds Enough, it was only in the late 1970s that literary critics constructed a prestigious version of British realism, erasing more than a century of controversy about the value of Victorian fiction. Examining criticism of Victorian novels since the 1850s, Freedgood demonstrates that while they were praised for their ability to bring certain social truths to fictional life, these novels were also criticized for their formal failures and compared unfavorably to their French and German counterparts. She analyzes the characteristics of realism—denotation, omniscience, paratext, reference, and ontology—and the politics inherent in them, arguing that if critics displaced the nineteenth-century realist novel as the standard by which others are judged, literary history might be richer. It would allow peripheral literatures and the neglected wisdom of their critics to come fully into view. She concludes by questioning the aesthetic racism built into prevailing ideas about the centrality of realism in the novel, and how those ideas have affected debates about world literature. By re-examining the critical reception of the Victorian novel, Worlds Enough suggests how we can rethink our practices and perceptions about books we think we know.

Nigerian Literary Imagination and the Nationhood Project

Author	: Toyin Falola
Publisher	: Springer Nature
Release Date	: 2022-07-14
ISBN 10	: 9783031019913
Pages	: 286 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (199 users)

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Download or read book Nigerian Literary Imagination and the Nationhood Project written by Toyin Falola and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-07-14 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how modern Nigerian fiction is rooted in writers’ understanding of their identity and perception of Nigeria as a country and home. Surveying a broad range of authors and texts, the book shows how these fictionalized representations of Nigeria reveal authentic perceptions of Nigeria’s history and culture today. Many of the lessons in these works of literature provide cautionary tales and critiques of Nigeria, as well as an examination of the lasting impact of colonialism. Furthermore, the book presents the nation as both the framework and subject of its narrative. By conducting literary analyses of Nigerian fiction with historical reference points, this work demonstrates how Nigerian literature can convey profound themes and knowledge that resonates with audiences, teaching Nigerians and non-Nigerians about the colonial and postcolonial experience. The chapters cover topics on nationhood, women’s writing, postcolonial modernity, and Nigerian literature in the digital age.

The Reign of Anti-logos

Author	: David Hawkes
Publisher	: Springer Nature
Release Date	: 2020-11-24
ISBN 10	: 9783030559403
Pages	: 275 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (594 users)

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Download or read book The Reign of Anti-logos written by David Hawkes and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of ‘performativity’ has risen to prominence throughout the humanities. The rise of financial derivatives reflects the power of the performative sign in the economic sphere. As recent debates about gender identity show, the concept of performativity is also profoundly influential on people’s personal lives. Although the autonomous power of representation has been studied in disciplines ranging from economics to poetics, however, it has not yet been evaluated in ethical terms. This book supplies that deficiency, providing an ethical critique of performative representation as it is manifested in semiotics, linguistics, philosophy, poetics, theology and economics. It constructs a moral criticism of the performative sign in two ways: first, by identifying its rise to power as a single phenomenon manifested in various different areas; and second, by locating efficacious representation in its historical context, thus connecting it to idolatry, magic, usury and similar performative signs. The book concludes by suggesting that earlier ethical critiques of efficacious representation might be revived in our own postmodern era.

Manifestations of Masculine Magnificence

Author	: Teresa N. Washington
Publisher	: Oya's Tornado
Release Date	: 2014-02-25
ISBN 10	:
Pages	: 416 pages
Rating	: 4./5 ( users)

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Download or read book Manifestations of Masculine Magnificence written by Teresa N. Washington and published by Oya's Tornado. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manifestations of Masculine Magnificence: Divinity in Africana Life, Lyrics, and Literature is a remarkable study and the first of its kind. Teresa N. Washington eschews popular culture’s pimp myths and thug sagas and traces the Africana man’s power, creativity, and consciousness to his inherent divinity. Manifestations of Masculine Magnificence takes the reader to the source of power with an analysis of African Divinities and divine technologies. Washington explores the permanence and proliferation of African Gods from oppressive plantations to the empowering proclamations of such leaders as W. D. Fard, Marcus Garvey, Father Divine, and Allah, the Father. Washington analyzes the summonses to and from the Gods that resonate in the music of such artists as Erykah Badu, The RZA, Sun Ra, X Clan, and Rakim. Using literary analysis as a prism to display the diversity of Africana divinity, Washington reveals the literature of such writers as August Wilson, Walter Mosley, Toni Morrison, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, and Ishmael Reed to be three-way mirrors that eternally reflect and project the Gods, their myriad powers, and their weighty responsibilities. Manifestations of Masculine Magnificence will prove indispensable to independent scholars as well as scholars of Comparative Literature, Hip Hop Studies, Gender Studies, Africana Studies, Literary Criticism, and Religious Studies.

Empire and Poetic Voice

Author	: Patrick Colm Hogan
Publisher	: SUNY Press
Release Date	: 2004-01-01
ISBN 10	: 0791459632
Pages	: 312 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (32 users)

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Download or read book Empire and Poetic Voice written by Patrick Colm Hogan and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the relation of post-colonization authors to literary traditions.

Postcolonial African Writers

Author	: Siga Fatima Jagne
Publisher	: Routledge
Release Date	: 2012-11-12
ISBN 10	: 9781136593970
Pages	: 525 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (939 users)

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Download or read book Postcolonial African Writers written by Siga Fatima Jagne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference book surveys the richness of postcolonial African literature. The volume begins with an introductory essay on postcolonial criticism and African writing, then presents alphabetically arranged profiles of some 60 writers, including Chinua Achebe, Nadine Gordimer, Bessie Head, Doris Lessing, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Tahbar Ben Jelloun, among others. Each entry includes a brief biography, a discussion of major works and themes that appear in the author's writings, an overview of the critical response to the author's work, and a bibliography of primary and secondary sources. These profiles are written by expert contributors and reflect many different perspectives. The volume concludes with a selected general bibliography of the most important critical works on postcolonial African literature.

Black African Literature in English, 1997-1999

Author	: Bernth Lindfors
Publisher	: James Currey Publishers
Release Date	: 2003
ISBN 10	: 085255575X
Pages	: 500 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (5 users)

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Download or read book Black African Literature in English, 1997-1999 written by Bernth Lindfors and published by James Currey Publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume lists the work produced on anglophone black African literature between 1997 and 1999. This bibliographic work is a continuation of the highly acclaimed earlier volumes compiled by Bernth Lindfors. Containing about 10,000 entries, some of which are annotated to identify the authors discussed, it covers books, periodical articles, papers in edited collections and selective coverage of other relevant sources.

The Facts on File Companion to the World Novel

Author	: Michael Sollars
Publisher	: Infobase Publishing
Release Date	: 2008
ISBN 10	: 9781438108360
Pages	: 957 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (83 users)

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Download or read book The Facts on File Companion to the World Novel written by Michael Sollars and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 957 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Facts On File Companion to the World Novel : 1900 to the Present is a new two-volume reference guide featuring more than 600 entries on the world’s greatest modern novels and novelists, including everything from acknowledg.

At the Crossroads

Author	: Rebecca Jones
Publisher	: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date	: 2019
ISBN 10	: 9781847012227
Pages	: 314 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (122 users)

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Download or read book At the Crossroads written by Rebecca Jones and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2019 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHORTLISTED FOR THE ASAUK FAGE & OLIVER PRIZE 2020 'Honorable Mention' for the ALA FIRST BOOK AWARD - SCHOLARSHIP 2021 A path-breaking contribution to the critical literature on African travel writing.

Explorations 5

Author	: E S Carpenter
Publisher	: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date	: 2016-09-29
ISBN 10	: 9781620324318
Pages	: 173 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (243 users)

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Download or read book Explorations 5 written by E S Carpenter and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-09-29 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explorations: Studies in Culture and Communication, principally edited by Edmund Carpenter and Marshall McLuhan, was the first postwar journal to engage directly with the new "grammars" of mid-century new media of communication. Launched in Toronto in 1953, at the very moment that television made its national debut in Canada, Explorations presented a mosaic of approaches to contemporary media culture and became the site in which McLuhan and Carpenter first formulated their most striking insights about new media in the electric age. The extraordinary breadth of contributions to Explorations from leading thinkers across the arts, humanities, social and natural sciences makes this journal a founding publication in the now burgeoning field of media studies. Originally funded by a Ford Foundation grant, the eight coedited issues of Explorations ran from 1953 to 1957 and are reprinted here for the first time in sixty years. For a listing of all articles in this series, refer to the Summaries at the end of the series introduction.