| Description |
1 online resource (x, 211 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction: Missionary moments -- Crossing currents : postcoloniality, globalism, diaspora -- Mission tide : Bishop S.A. Crowther and the "black whitemen" -- Decolonization time : Abrahams, James, Wright -- Globalization time : Achebe, Soyinka, and beyond -- Epilogue: Gaps |
| Summary |
Alert to the ways in which critical theory and imaginative literature can enrich each other, African Literature and Social Change reframes the ongoing project of African literature. Concentrating on texts that are not usually considered together--writings by little-known black missionaries, so called "black whitemen," and better-known 20th century intellectuals and creative writers--Olakunle George shows the ways in which these writings have addressed notions of ethnicity, nation, and race and how the debates need to be rehistoricized today. George presents Africa as a site of complex desires and contradictions, refashioning the way African literature is positioned within current discussions of globalism, diaspora, and postcolonialism |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 18, 2019) |
| Subject |
African literature (English) -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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African literature (English) -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Literature and society -- Africa -- History -- 19th century
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Literature and society -- Africa -- History -- 20th century
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Social change in literature.
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Ethnicity in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- African.
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African literature (English)
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Ethnicity in literature
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Literature and society
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Social change in literature
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Africa
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2017032853 |
| ISBN |
9780253029324 |
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0253029325 |
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