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African Literature and the Future /
Many African countries achieved independence from their colonisers over five decades ago, but the people and the continent largely remain mere spectators in the arena of their own dance. The post-independence states are supposed to be sovereign, but the levers of economic and political powers still...
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Dakar :
CODESRIA, Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa,
[2015]
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| 505 | 0 | |a Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- About the Contributors -- Introduction. Present Tension in Future Tenses: Re-writing Africa into the Twenty-firstCentury -- 1. Orality, Modernity and African Development: Myth as Dialogue of Civilisations -- Introduction -- Myth-Orality Nexus and the 'Other' Modernity -- Myth, Modernity and the Development Question in Africa -- Africa, Myth and the Dialogue of Civilisations Narrative -- Re-Reading Myth as Text -- Conclusion -- References -- 2. Requiem for Absolutism: Soyinka andthe Re-visioning of Governance in Twenty-first Century Africa -- Introduction -- Soyinka and the Absolute State -- The Beatification of Area Boy -- King Baabu -- Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- References -- 3. A Critical Discourse Evaluation of Decolonisation and Democratisation: Issues in Africa as Exemplified inSoyinka's Non-fictional Texts -- Introduction -- Theory and Methods of Post-colonialism -- The Non-fictional Writings of Soyinka -- Lexical Indexicalisation of Political Actors -- Conclusion -- References -- 4. Power, Artistic Agency and Poetic Discourse: Poetry as Cultural Critique in Africa -- Introduction -- Literary Trajectory -- Nation, Power and Dissidence -- Exile and Dispersal: Post-Nation Anxiety -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 5. African Literature and the Anxiety of Being in the Twenty-first Century -- Introduction -- Conceptualising African Literature -- African Literature in the Twenty-first Century -- Towards the Future -- Conclusion -- References -- 6. A Critical Analysis of Prophetic Myths in the Selected Fiction of Ben Okri -- Introduction -- Journey as Archetypal Motif -- In Search of the Future: Mythical Paradigms as Prophecy in In Arcadia -- Unorthodox Archetypes as Predictive Myth -- Unorthodox Archetypal Statements -- Unorthodox Archetypal Sights -- Conclusion -- References. | |
| 520 | |a Many African countries achieved independence from their colonisers over five decades ago, but the people and the continent largely remain mere spectators in the arena of their own dance. The post-independence states are supposed to be sovereign, but the levers of economic and political powers still reside in the donor states. Not in many fora is the complex reality that defines Africa more trenchantly articulated than in imaginative literature produced about and on the continent. This is the crux of the essays collected in African Literature and the Future. The book reflects on Africa's past and present, addressing anxieties about the future through the epistemological lens of literature. The contributors peep ahead from a backward glance. They dissect the trend and tenor of politics and their impact on the socio-cultural and economic development of the continent as portrayed in imaginative writings over the years. One salient feature of African literature is the close affinity between art and politics in its polemics. This is well established in all the six essays in the book as the authors stress the interconnections between literature and society in their textual analyses. On the whole, there is an overwhelming feeling of angst and pessimism, but the authors perceive a glimmer of hope despite daunting odds, under different conditions. Thus, they depict the plausible fate of Africa in the twenty-first century, as informed by its ancient and recent past, gleaned from primary texts. | ||
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| 945 | |a Project MUSE - 2016 Literature | ||
| 945 | |a Project MUSE - 2016 African Studies | ||