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Indigeneity, Globalization, and African Literature: Personally Speaking (African Histories and Modernities)
Tanure Ojaide
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Description for Indigeneity, Globalization, and African Literature: Personally Speaking (African Histories and Modernities)
Hardcover. This book brings a thoughtful, creative perspective to African literature instead of a theoretically-framed analysis. It contextualizes the production of African literature in culture, place, and history, framed in the context of globalization and environmental consciousness. Series: African Histories and Modernities. Num Pages: 285 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1H; DSBH; HBJH; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 224 x 22. Weight in Grams: 500.
Literature remains one of the few disciplines that reflect the experiences, sensibility, worldview, and living realities of its people. Contemporary African literature captures the African experience in history and politics in a multiplicity of ways. Politics itself has come to intersect and impact on most, if not all, aspects of the African reality. This relationship of literature with African people’s lives and condition forms the setting of this study. Tanure Ojaide’s Indigeneity, Globalization, and African Literature: Personally Speaking belongs with a well-established tradition of personal reflections on literature by African creative writer-critics. Ojaide’s contribution brings to the table the perspective ... Read more
Literature remains one of the few disciplines that reflect the experiences, sensibility, worldview, and living realities of its people. Contemporary African literature captures the African experience in history and politics in a multiplicity of ways. Politics itself has come to intersect and impact on most, if not all, aspects of the African reality. This relationship of literature with African people’s lives and condition forms the setting of this study. Tanure Ojaide’s Indigeneity, Globalization, and African Literature: Personally Speaking belongs with a well-established tradition of personal reflections on literature by African creative writer-critics. Ojaide’s contribution brings to the table the perspective ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Series
African Histories and Modernities
Number of Pages
285
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137542205
SKU
V9781137542205
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Ref
99-15
About Tanure Ojaide
Tanure Ojaide is Frank Porter Graham Professor in the Africana Studies Department at the University of North Carolina, USA.
Reviews for Indigeneity, Globalization, and African Literature: Personally Speaking (African Histories and Modernities)
“A frank and passionate celebration and defense of the dignity and desirability of the indigenous in an age of specious globalization. Literate, up-to-date, and wide-ranging, Indigeneity, Globalization, and African Literature is a welcome intervention by one of the most assiduous workers in the vineyard of African letters.”-Niyi Osundare, Distinguished Professor, University of New Orleans, USA “A thoughtful, lucid, and much ... Read more