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Published by Rodopi, 2012
ISBN 10: 9042034769ISBN 13: 9789042034761
Seller: killarneybooks, Inagh, CLARE, Ireland
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Hardcover, 444 pages, NOT ex-library. Faint dusty marks on side page edges externally. Else book looks unread: clean and bright throughout with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Issued without a dust jacket. -- Postcolonial and contemporary African literatures have always been marked by an acute sensitivity to the politics of language, an attentiveness inscribed in the linguistic fabric of their own modes of expression. It is curious however that despite the prevalence of a much-touted linguistic turn in 20th century theory and cultural production, language has frequently been neglected by literary studies in general. Even more curiously, postcolonial literary studies has eschewed any sustained engagement with this topic. This absence is salient in the study of African literatures, despite, for instance, the prominence of orature in the African literary tradition right up to the present day, and sporadic meditations on the part of such luminaries as Achebe and Ngugi. Beyond this, however, there has been little scholarly work attuned to the multifarious aspects of language and linguistic politics in the study of African literature. The present volume aims to rectify such lacunae by making a substantial interdisciplinary and transcultural contribution to the gradual reinstatement of the 'linguistic turn' in African literary studies. The volume focuses variously on postcolonial and transcultural African literatures, areas of literary production where the confluence of several languages, whether indigenous and (post)colonial in the first case, and local and global in the second case, appears to be a central and decisive factor in the formation and transformation of the continent and its peoples' cultural identities. -- Contents: Introduction: Linguistic (Re)turn and Craft in Contemporary African Literature; 1. General Perspectives -- Towards a Stylistic Model for Analysing Anglophone African Literatures: Preliminary Epistemological Considerations and a Case Study / Daria Tunca; Current Issues and Trends in African Verbal Stylistics: Yoruba Example / Adesola Olateju; 2. Perspectives on Fiction -- Nnu Ego on the Verge of Feminist Consciousness: Feminist Stylistics & Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood / K.M. Mathews; Narratives of a Wounded Time: Yvonne Vera's Poetics of Trauma / Martina Kopf; Speaking the Unspeakable in Iweala and Kourourma: Trauma of Child Soldiers, Literary Stylistics & Story Telling / R.W.-Pavlov; Autobiographical Memory and Identity Construction in Tayo Olafioye's Grandma's Sun / Adeyemi Adegoju; Carl de Souza's La maison qui marchait vers le large & the Multicultural Mauritian City / Shawkat M. Toorawa; Stylistic Study of Metaphors in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart / Adeyemi Daramola; 3. Perspectives on Orature & Poetry -- Stylistic Features of Igbo Riddles / Iwu Ikwubuzo; On Stylistic Trends in Modern Swahili Poetry / Mikhail Gromov; New Wine in Old Wineskins: Stylistic Provisions of Orature's Call and Response for Contemporary Discourses in Gikuyu Popular Music / Michael Wainaina; Activistic Understones in the Music of Women: A Psychoanalytic and Stylistic Reading of Agnes Mbuta's Dhiang' Othuwowa gi Chuo / James Odhiambo Ogone; Chronotopes of the (Post-) Colonial Condition in Otjiherero Praise Poetry / Anette Hoffmann; Metapoesis and 'the Art of Chameleons' in Steve Chimombo's Poetry / Bright Molande; 4. Perspectives on Drama and Theatre -- Female Sexuality under the Male Gaze: Reading Style and Ideology in Bole Butake's The Rape of Michelle / Naomi Nkealah; Figurations of Troubled motherland & Feminization of the Ugandan Nation in John Ruganda's Plays / Chris Wasike; Language & Meaning in Efo Mawugbe's In the Chest of a Woman / Victor Yankah; Incantation as Discourse: A Discourse-Stylistic Study of the Confrontational Scene in Ola Rotimi's The Gods are Not to Blame / Ibrahim Esan Olaosun.
Published by Rodopi, 2012
ISBN 10: 9042034769ISBN 13: 9789042034761
Seller: Michener & Rutledge Booksellers, Inc., Baldwin City, KS, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Text clean and tight; no dust jacket; Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen & Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft; 9.06 X 6.22 X 1.42 inches; 446 pages.
Published by Editions Rodopi B.V., 2012
ISBN 10: 9042034769ISBN 13: 9789042034761
Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United Kingdom
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