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Here you can find Le Clézio's thoughts about his African childhood and about life in remote places. [2] " L'Africain ", the story of the author’s father, is at once a reconstruction, a vindication, and the recollection of a boy who lived in the shadow of a stranger he was obliged to love.
Hortense J. Spillers (born 1942) is an American literary critic, Black Feminist scholar and the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor at Vanderbilt University.A scholar of the African diaspora, Spillers is known for her essays on African-American literature, collected in Black, White, and In Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture, published by the University of Chicago Press in 2003 ...
Decolonising the Mind is split into four essays: "The Language of African Literature," "The Language of African Theatre," "The Language of African Fiction," and "The Quest for Relevance." Several of the book's chapters originated as lectures, and apparently this format gave Ngũgĩ "the chance to pull together in a connected and coherent form ...
As George Joseph notes in his chapter on African Literature [3] in Understanding Contemporary Africa, whereas European views of literature stressed a separation of art and content, African awareness is inclusive and "literature" can also simply mean an artistic use of words for the sake of art alone. Traditionally, Africans do not radically ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Pages in category "African literature" ... Calabar International Conference on African Literature and the ...
Swahili literature is classified into three genres: Riwaya (the novel), tamthilia (drama/play) and ushairi (). [9] Scholars, however, cite the problem in the literary classification because the association to Western genres does not correspond properly to Swahili literature. [10]
It's hailed as one of the greatest works of fiction to emerge from Africa. But Things Fall Apart was written in English, sparking debate about the colonisation of language.
The ruler of the Songhai Empire at the time, Askia the Great was a patron of literature. According to the 16th-century Moroccan explorer Leo Africanus, writing in 1510 CE, . In Timbuktu there are numerous judges, doctors and clerics, all receiving good salaries from the king.