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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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Otros Autores: Adeoti, Gbemisola (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dakar : CODESRIA, Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
African literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > African.
Bilingual & multilingual dictionaries.
Litterature africaine.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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