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Title

Postcolonial imagination and moral representations in African literature and culture / Chielozona Eze.

Author

Eze, Chielozona

Publication

Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2011.

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Description

xvii, 137 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Relying on the insights of thinkers such as Frantz Fanon, Wole Soyinka, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Achille Mbembe and Wolgang Welsch, this book suggests new approaches to interpreting African experiences. It discusses select African works of fiction as a paradigm for new interpretations of African experiences."--

Subject

• African literature > 20th century > History and criticism
• African literature > 21st century > History and criticism
• Postcolonialism > Africa
• Postcolonialism in literature
• Ethics in literature
• Africa > Intellectual life > 20th century
• Africa > Intellectual life > 21st century

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Postcolonial states of injury and moral imaginations -- The moral reinvention of Africa -- Things fall apart and the invention of the African culture -- The pitfalls of African feminism -- Robert Mugabe and the symbolic power of history -- Frantz Fanon and the search for new discourse paradigms -- Wole Soyinka and the moral foundations of community -- Literature and the task of increasing the sum total of humanity.

ISBN

• 9780739145067 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0739145061 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780739145081 (ebook)
• 0739145088 (ebook)

LCCN

^^2011036065

OCLC

746837613

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library