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Title African literature in African languages / guest editors Chiji Akọma, Nduka Otiono
Published Woodbridge : James Currey, 2023
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Description 1 online resource (178 p.)
Series African Literature Today Series ; v.41
African literature today ; 41.
Contents Front cover -- Table of Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction. African Literature in African Languages: Orality and the Burden of Modernity -- ARTICLES -- Pictures of Materialism in the Benin Ecological Worldview: Eco-Critical Poems of Osemwengie Ero -- The Swahili Mtapta: Exploring Translation in Abdulrazak Gurnah's Paradise -- Ikponmwosa Osemwegie's Ọrọ Epic and Translation: The Past and Prospects of Edo Literature -- The Panegyric of the Champion: How Wolof Wrestlers Borrowed from Female Oral Genres to Win In and O
'A People's Firewood Cooks for Them': The Contextual Prosody of Igbo Mask Poetry and Mbem Poetics -- Reclaiming the Muted Voices of Xhosa Literature: A Personal Testament -- Literary Supplement -- Four Poems -- Three Poems -- Four Poems -- Pulse on Martin Niemöller -- Two Poems -- Poem -- Ties that Gag -- Featured Articles -- Costume as Mystico-Metaphoric Communication in Toni Duruaku's A Matter of Identity -- Decolonizing Trauma Studies: The Recognition-Solidarity Nexus in Uwem Akpan's Say You're One of Them -- Tribute -- Remembering Gerald Moore (22 August 1924 -- 27 December 2022) -- Reviews
Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo, Do Not Burn My Bones and Other Stories -- Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo, Broken Bodies, Damaged Souls and Other Poems -- Al-Bishak, Black Papyrus: Global Origins of Writing and Written Literature Traced to Black Africa -- Olu Obafemi, Ajon! (The Legend Who Made a King/Dom)
Summary Explores African literature in African languages today
Notes Print version of record
Subject African literature -- History and criticism
African literature
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Emenyo̲nu, Ernest, 1939- series editor.
Ako̥ma, Chiji, editor.
Otiono, Nduka, 1964- editor.
ISBN 9781805431084
1805431080
9781805431077
1805431072