| African Literature and Social Change: Tribe, Nation, Race Contributor(s): George, Olakunle (Author) |
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ISBN: 025302580X ISBN-13: 9780253025807 Publisher: Indiana University Press OUR PRICE: $28.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | African - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 820.996 |
| LCCN: 2017024198 |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.9" W x 8.8" (0.65 lbs) 224 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |