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Crossings and comparisons in African literary and cultural studies
- Title
- Crossings and comparisons in African literary and cultural studies / Susanne Gehrmann, Pepetual Mforbe Chiangong (Eds.).
- Publication
- Trier : WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, [2022]
- ©2022
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- Description
- 269 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- "This book constructs a platform for the critical exploration of African literatures written in a variety of African and European languages and goes beyond the mainstream in African literary and cultural studies by engaging multiple hermeneutic approaches to narratives, performance, and visual arts."
- Series Statement
- LuKA, Studien zu Literaturen und Kunst Afrikas ; Band 15
- Uniform Title
- LuKA, Studien zu Literaturen und Kunst Afrikas ; 15.
- Subject
- African culture > Study and teaching
- African literature > History and criticism
- African languages
- African prose literature
- Islamic literature
- Hermetism in literature
- Littérature africaine > Histoire et critique
- Langues africaines
- Prose africaine
- Littérature islamique
- Hermétisme dans la littérature
- African literature
- Education
- Literature
- Europe > In literature
- Europe
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Crossings and comparisons in African literatures and cultures: Introduction / Susanne Gehrmann and Pepetual Mforbe Chiangong -- African language literatures in dialogue -- When the emperor travelled the continet. on the cosmopolis of Islamic literature and its adaptation into African languages / Clarissa Vierke -- Rhetorical strategies of humour in West Africa eipcs : crossing languages, genres, and media / Anne M. Carovani -- Cross-readings of Europhone African literature -- The representation of history in poetric space. Strategies of polyphony in contemporary African novels : Boubacar Boris Diop's Murambi and Mia Cuoto's Vinte e zinco / Lucia Weiß -- Narrating lives and negotiating space in prison. A comparative analysis of Calixthe Beyala's Tu t'appelleras Tanga and Petina Gappah's The book of memory / Isabel Schröder -- African child soldier narratives in children's literature. A cross-regional and cross-language comparison / Charlott Schönwetter -- Political practice and irate satire in Cameroonian drama : a cross-language exploration of What God has put asunder by Victor Epie 'Ngome and La chèvre du sous-préfet by Charles Soh / Pepetual Mforbe Chiangong -- Critical humanisms on the margins of African literary canons : Bakary Diallo and Richard Rive / Cullen Goldblatt -- Crossing the languages of African music -- Inclusive rapport : nation, language, and identity in Nigeriène and Nigerian hausa rap music / Abdalla Uba Adamu --Travelling without visa : Afropolitan vibe, technoculture, and the language of cultural production / Oladipupo Oyeleye -- Entangling prose, film, and the digital space -- From a Francophone novel to an Anglophone film : Emmanuel Dongala's Johnny chien mérchant and Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire's Johnny Mad Dog / Gbande Daré and Susanne Gehrmann -- Virtual communication remediated. Truth, disguise, and falsity in Petina Gappah's anthology Rotten row / Ricarda de Haas -- Disseminating and teaching African literatures -- The compartmentalisation of literature in Kiswahili and literature in English--the Kenyan situation / Miriam Maranga-Musonye -- New African trajectories beyond Francophie. Festivals, anthologies, research / Bernadette Desorbay.
- Call Number
- PL8010
- ISBN
- 9783868219340
- 386821934X
- OCLC
- on1305362911
- 1305362911
- SCSB-14299235
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries