Postcolonial mind, identities and political communication in Africa : literary prospectives /

"This book is about Africa in the postcolonial trend of thinking and mutual representations of peoples of different cultures. From a literary approach and culture-based illustrations, the essay explores postcolonial ideas, realities and discourses in African letters and politics. It critically...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sow, Aliou (Autor)
Otros Autores: Kandji, Mamadou (writer of foreword.), Dieng, Gorgui (writer of afterword.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Paris : Les impliqués éditeur, [2018]
Temas:
Achebe, Chinua > Criticism and interpretation.
Achebe, Chinua
Since 1960
Postcolonialism > Africa.
Social change > Africa.
Igbo (African people) in literature.
Youth > Africa > Social conditions > 21st century.
Postcolonialisme > Afrique.
Ibo (Peuple d'Afrique) dans la littérature.
Jeunesse > Afrique > Conditions sociales > 21e siècle.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > National.
Igbo (African people) in literature
Language and languages > Political aspects
Politics and government
Postcolonialism
Social change
Youth > Social conditions
Africa > Politics and government > 1960-
Africa > Languages > Political aspects.
Afrique > Politique et gouvernement > 1960-
Afrique > Langues > Aspect politique.
Africa
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. Postcoloniality of linguistic identities and African representations of foreign influences. Of postcolonial leadership and African politics
  • Language, ethnicity and African politics
  • The dictatorial promotion of political power personification and the spinning system rule
  • The role of foreign languages in peace building in Africa
  • The African linguistic situation : opportunities and challenges
  • African linguistic diversity and national togetherness : the importance of foreign languages in a diversity that divides
  • The status of lingua franca of the foreign languages and their impact on societies : the birth of new African languages.
  • Part II. African youth issues in a context of global terrorism : political perspectives and solutions. The pos[t]coloniality of African crises and performances
  • African youth's state of mind and the perceptions of Islam
  • Postcolonial discourses, newly built identities and religious factors
  • New economic development strategies and peace building perspectives.
  • Part III. Postcolonial theory through cultural perspectives : a reference to Chinua Achebe's writings and the Igbo community's colonial experiences. The African individual and his community : understanding the mixture of liberal and socialist values in pre-colonial African life through Achebe's Things Fall Apart and Arrow of God
  • Rights and duties of the individual in his community
  • Achebe's two representatives of Africans : Okonkwo, the self-made man and Ezeulu, the shrewd politician
  • Merging values as colonial lessons from Achebe's fiction
  • Early relationships and mutual perceptions between Biblical Christian colonizers and traditional religious Africans
  • Biblical values versus pagan mores
  • The birth of a new type of Igbo society as a symbol of a new Africa created by the West.

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