African Literature and the Politics of Culture - Hardcover

Tsaaior, James Tar

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1443850322 ISBN 13: 9781443850322

Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013

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Críticas:

"African Literature and the Politics of Culture fearlessly enters the fraught epistemological confrontation between Africa and the West, critically assessing both Afrocentric nativism and European cultural hegemony, and examining ways in which Africa's indigenous forms of knowledge can be productively engaged in the cultural laboratory of a continent in a state of rapid transition. The proposal is timely, the outcome quite challenging for both cultural politics and African literary studies." -Professor Annalisa Oboe, University of Padua, Italy "Engaging with the relationship between oral and printed literatures, with the politics of gender in African literature and with the mutual influence of oral and written genres, James Tsaaior's new book offers a comprehensive appraisal of critical positions to date, and expands these arguments in exciting new directions. The array of primary materials will inspire students of African literature to read beyond the canon." -Professor Stephanie Newell, University of Sussex, United Kingdom "A brilliantly conceived study that transforms our knowledge of the cultural politics of African literature by anchoring it firmly in the dynamic discourses of modernity. Professor Tsaaior has undertaken the formidable task of analysing a large body of oral and written literature from all over Africa (including the often neglected North) to explore the politics of knowledge production from a postcolonial perspective." -Dr Anke Bartels, University of Potsdam, Germany

Reseña del editor:

This book essentially negotiates African literature as a veritable site of artistic and cultural production and situates it within the dynamic of postcolonial cultural politics. It critically evaluates African literature as a contour of cultural contestation with the imperial politics of knowledge production about others and as an ideological strategy for knowing them. The book's main contribution to the critical discourse on African literature and culture inheres in the fact that politics constitutes the enduring concern of society as it re/shapes and over-determines discourses which have continued to remain crucial to societal engineering. It, however, imagines the discursive existence as necessary for the evolving of a dynamic African literary tradition with an abiding fidelity to the verities of history. The book is useful for literary scholars, historians, critics, experts and students of postcolonial/cultural studies as well as general readership interested in African studies.

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• Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1443850322
• ISBN 13: 9781443850322
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240