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Routledge Handbook of Minority Discourses in African Literature

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ojaide, Tanure
Otros Autores: Ashuntantang, Joyce
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication Page
  • CONTENTS
  • Notes on editors and contributors
  • PART I Background
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 The theory and aesthetics of minority discourses in African literature
  • PART II Political and racial forms of marginalization
  • 3 Amazigh/Berber literature and "literary space": a contested minority situation in (North) African literatures
  • 4 Negotiating the global literary market: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's short fiction
  • 5 Anglophone Cameroon literature: writing from the margins of the margin
  • 6 Niger Delta and its minority condition in Nigerian writing
  • 7 Jola verbal arts of Casamance, Senegal, and The Gambia: a question in search of a literature
  • PART III Culture and language
  • 8 Negating hegemony: linguistic and rhetorical formations as discursive praxis of resistance in Yulisa Amadu Maddy's Obasai and Other Plays
  • 9 Of pidgin, Nigerian Pidgin poetry, and minority discourses: the pidgin poems of Ezenwa-Ohaeto
  • 11 Swahili literature as a minority discourse in African literatures
  • 10 Three moments of minor Afrikaans literary expression
  • 12 Becoming-minoritarian: constructions of coloured identities in creative writing projects at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa
  • PART IV Patriarchal domination, gender, sexuality, and other sociocultural "minorities"
  • 13 A reflection on gender and sexuality as transnational archive of African modernity
  • 14 "Who do you think you are, woman?" Wangari Maathai answers the patriarchal state in Unbowed
  • 15 Representation of women in udje, an Urhobo men's-only oral poetic performance genre
  • 16 Voices from the margin: female protagonists navigating power geometries
  • 17 Responding from the fringe: women, Islam, and patriarchy in Nigerian Muslim women's novels
  • PART V Intranational, national, and international marginalization/conflict
  • 18 The odds against Eritrean literature
  • 19 Minority discourses and the construction of illicit versions of Zimbabwean nation-ness in Ndebele fiction in English
  • 20 The muse of history and the literature of the Nigeria-Biafra War
  • PART VI Literature and disability
  • 21 Children with disabilities as negotiators of social responsibility: a critical study of 'redemption' in Meshack Asare's Sosu's Call
  • 22 Beyond 'harmless lunacy': African women writers (w)riting madness
  • 23 Mental health, minority discourse and Tanure Ojaide's short stories
  • PART VII Recent trends of marginalities: timely and timeless
  • 24 Not yet season of blossom: writing Northern Nigeria into the global space
  • 25 Afropolitan literature as a minority discourse in contemporary African literature
  • 26 Tanella Boni's Matins de couvre-feu: environmentalism and ecocriticism in African literature
  • 27 Futuristic themes and science fiction in modern African literature