Postcolonial imaginations and moral representations in African literature and culture /
Following in the footsteps of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, the tenor of the postcolonial African culture has been justifiably anti-imperialist. In the 21st century, however, there has been a gradual but certain shift away from the "write-back" discourse paradigm, towards more in...
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Lanham, Md. :
Lexington Books,
2011.
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Table des matières:
- Acknowledgments; Introduction: Postcolonial Imagination and Moral Representations-Africa in Discourse and Culture; Chapter One: Postcolonial States of Injury and Moral Imaginations; Chapter Two: The Moral Reinvention of Africa; Chapter Three: Things Fall Apart and the Invention of African Culture; Chapter Four: The Pitfalls of African Feminism; Chapter Five: Robert Mugabe and the Symbolic Power of History; Chapter Six: Frantz Fanon and the Search for New Discourse Paradigms; Chapter Seven: Wole Soyinka and the Moral Foundations of Community.