Research Catalog

Title

Crossing borders : interdisciplinary approaches to Africa / Anne Schröder (ed.).

Publication

Münster : Lit, 2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

Schröder, Anne

Description

235 p. : ill.; 21 cm.

Summary

"This book shows new approaches to the African continent and its various cultures, explores different facets of African cultures as they exist or undergo changes, and illustrates how and where African and European cultures come or have come into contact, interact, and create something new. The contributors are social, cultural and literary scientists, linguists, and artists of various cultural backgrounds. Their joint interest is a better understanding of the multifaceted character of the African continent, which is still often depicted as a cultural monolith, by exploring contemporary African literature, theatre, film, music and the use of linguistic methods as well as the experience of Africans in diasporas."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Afrikanische Studien ; Bd. 23

Uniform Title

Afrikanische Studien (Münster in Westfalen, Germany) Bd. 23.

Subject

• Since 1900
• Africa > Civilization > 20th century
• Africa > Social conditions > 1961-

Genre/Form

Aufsatzsammlung.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Cultural manifestations of collective identity in contemporary Zimbabwean literature / Kerstin Bolzt -- Writing woman writing culture : the scripting of Potent secrets / Joyce A. Abunaw -- Kamerun - reliving German occupation through theatre : Zintgraff and the battle of Mankon by Bole Butake & Gilbert Doho / Bole Butake -- The presence of the past for the future : Virginia Mukwesha, a modern approach to an ancient music / Virginia Mukwesha and Florian Hetze -- Africa raps back : reflections on hiphop from Tanzania and South Africa / Birgit Englert -- How Asterix learnt Swahili : the Tanzanian appropriation of a French comic / Jigal Beez -- Notions on time in Burkina Faso / Evelyn Wladarsch -- Cultural approaches to second language varieties of English : a call for new methodologies and a review of some findings on (West) African English / Hans-Georg Wolf -- Deeper insights through triangulation : experiences from a sociolinguistic study on Pidgin English in Cameroon / Anne Schröder -- Black scousers : the long presence of British Africans in Liverpool / Sebastian Berg -- Not just making the faces black : the representation of African Americans in contemporary crime and detective fiction / Katrin Fischer -- African popular theatre in diasporas : racism and identity / Emelda Ngufor Samba and Sebastian Berg.

ISBN

• 3825877876 (pbk.)
• 9783825877873 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 56492310
• SCSB-11585102

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library