Style in African literature : essays on literary stylistics and narrative styles /
Style in African literature : essays on literary stylistics and narrative styles /
edited by J.K.S. Makokha, Ogone John Obiero and Russell West-Pavlov.
- 1 online resource (444 pages :) : illustrations.
- Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 154 .
- Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft 154. Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2012, ISBN: 9789004357907. .
Includes bibliographical references.
Preliminary Material -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword / Linguistic (Re)turn and Craft in Contemporary African Literature / Towards a Stylistic Model for Analysing Anglophone African Literatures: Preliminary Epistemological Considerations and a Case Study / Current Issues and Trends in African Verbal Stylistics: The Yoruba Example / Nnu Ego on the Verge of Feminist Consciousness: Feminist Stylistics and Buchi Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood / Narratives of a Wounded Time: Yvonne Vera’s Poetics of Trauma / Speaking the Unspeakable in Iweala and Kourouma: The Trauma of Child Soldiers, Literary Stylistics and Story Telling / Autobiographical Memory and Identity Construction in Tayo Olafioye’s Grandma’s Sun / Carl de Souza’s La maison qui marchait vers le large and the Multicultural Mauritian city / A Stylistic Study of Metaphors in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart / Stylistic Features of Igbo Riddles / On Stylistic Trends in Modern Swahili Poetry / New Wine in Old Wineskins: Stylistic Provisions of Orature’s Call and Response for Contemporary Discourses in Gikuyu Popular Music / Acitivistic Undertones in the Music of Women: A Psychonalytic and Stylistic Reading of Agnes Mbuta’s Dhiang’ Othuwowa gi Chuo / Chronotopes of the (Post-) Colonial Condition in Otjiherero Praise Poetry / Metapoesis and ‘the Art of Chameleons’ in Steve Chimombo’s Poetry / Female Sexuality under the Male Gaze: Reading Style and Ideology in Bole Butake’s The Rape of Michelle / Figuration of ‘troubled motherhood’ and Feminization of the Ugandan Nation in John Ruganda’s Plays / Language and Meaning in Efo Mawugbe’s In the Chest of a Woman / Incantation as Discourse: A Discourse-Stylistic Study of the Confrontational Scene of Ola Rotimi’s The Gods are Not to Blame / Contributors. Chin Ce -- Russell West-Pavlov and J. K. S. Makokha -- Daria Tunca -- Adesola Olateju -- K. M. Mathews -- Martina Kopf -- Russell West-Pavlov -- Adeyemi Adegoju -- Shawkat M. Toorawa -- Adeyemi Daramola -- Iwu Ikwubuzo -- Mikhail Gromov -- Michael Wainaina -- James Odhiambo Ogone and Ogone John Obiero -- Anette Hoffmann -- Bright Molande -- Naomi Nkealah -- Chris Wasike -- Victor Yankah -- Ibrahim Esan Olaosun --
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Postcolonial and contemporary African literatures have always been marked by an acute sensitivity to the politics of language, an attentiveness inscribed in the linguistic fabric of their own modes of expression. It is curious however, that despite the prevalence of a much-touted ‘linguistic turn’ in twentieth century theory and cultural production, language has frequently been neglected by literary studies in general. Even more curiously, postcolonial literary studies, an erstwhile emergent and now established discipline which has from the outset contained important elements of linguistic critique, has eschewed any sustained engagement with this topic. This absence is salient in the study of African literatures, despite, for instance, the prominence of orature in the African literary tradition right up to the present day, and sporadic meditations on the part of such luminaries as Achebe and Ngũgĩ. Beyond this, however, there has been little scholarly work attuned to the multifarious aspects of language and linguistic politics in the study of African literature. The present volume aims to rectify such lacunae by making a substantial interdisciplinary and transcultural contribution to the gradual reinstatement of the ‘linguistic turn’ in African literary studies. The volume focuses variously on postcolonial and transcultural African literatures, areas of literary production where the confluence of several languages, whether indigenous and (post)colonial in the first case, and local and global in the second case, appears to be a central and decisive factor in the formation and transformation of the continent and its peoples’ cultural identities.
English; one contribution in French.
9789401207553
10.1163/9789401207553 DOI
1900-2099
African literature (English)--History and criticism.
African literature--History and criticism.--20th century
African literature--History and criticism.--21st century
Literary style.
African literature.
African literature (English)
Style, Literary.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PR9340.5 / .S796 2012eb
820.996
Includes bibliographical references.
Preliminary Material -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword / Linguistic (Re)turn and Craft in Contemporary African Literature / Towards a Stylistic Model for Analysing Anglophone African Literatures: Preliminary Epistemological Considerations and a Case Study / Current Issues and Trends in African Verbal Stylistics: The Yoruba Example / Nnu Ego on the Verge of Feminist Consciousness: Feminist Stylistics and Buchi Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood / Narratives of a Wounded Time: Yvonne Vera’s Poetics of Trauma / Speaking the Unspeakable in Iweala and Kourouma: The Trauma of Child Soldiers, Literary Stylistics and Story Telling / Autobiographical Memory and Identity Construction in Tayo Olafioye’s Grandma’s Sun / Carl de Souza’s La maison qui marchait vers le large and the Multicultural Mauritian city / A Stylistic Study of Metaphors in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart / Stylistic Features of Igbo Riddles / On Stylistic Trends in Modern Swahili Poetry / New Wine in Old Wineskins: Stylistic Provisions of Orature’s Call and Response for Contemporary Discourses in Gikuyu Popular Music / Acitivistic Undertones in the Music of Women: A Psychonalytic and Stylistic Reading of Agnes Mbuta’s Dhiang’ Othuwowa gi Chuo / Chronotopes of the (Post-) Colonial Condition in Otjiherero Praise Poetry / Metapoesis and ‘the Art of Chameleons’ in Steve Chimombo’s Poetry / Female Sexuality under the Male Gaze: Reading Style and Ideology in Bole Butake’s The Rape of Michelle / Figuration of ‘troubled motherhood’ and Feminization of the Ugandan Nation in John Ruganda’s Plays / Language and Meaning in Efo Mawugbe’s In the Chest of a Woman / Incantation as Discourse: A Discourse-Stylistic Study of the Confrontational Scene of Ola Rotimi’s The Gods are Not to Blame / Contributors. Chin Ce -- Russell West-Pavlov and J. K. S. Makokha -- Daria Tunca -- Adesola Olateju -- K. M. Mathews -- Martina Kopf -- Russell West-Pavlov -- Adeyemi Adegoju -- Shawkat M. Toorawa -- Adeyemi Daramola -- Iwu Ikwubuzo -- Mikhail Gromov -- Michael Wainaina -- James Odhiambo Ogone and Ogone John Obiero -- Anette Hoffmann -- Bright Molande -- Naomi Nkealah -- Chris Wasike -- Victor Yankah -- Ibrahim Esan Olaosun --
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
Postcolonial and contemporary African literatures have always been marked by an acute sensitivity to the politics of language, an attentiveness inscribed in the linguistic fabric of their own modes of expression. It is curious however, that despite the prevalence of a much-touted ‘linguistic turn’ in twentieth century theory and cultural production, language has frequently been neglected by literary studies in general. Even more curiously, postcolonial literary studies, an erstwhile emergent and now established discipline which has from the outset contained important elements of linguistic critique, has eschewed any sustained engagement with this topic. This absence is salient in the study of African literatures, despite, for instance, the prominence of orature in the African literary tradition right up to the present day, and sporadic meditations on the part of such luminaries as Achebe and Ngũgĩ. Beyond this, however, there has been little scholarly work attuned to the multifarious aspects of language and linguistic politics in the study of African literature. The present volume aims to rectify such lacunae by making a substantial interdisciplinary and transcultural contribution to the gradual reinstatement of the ‘linguistic turn’ in African literary studies. The volume focuses variously on postcolonial and transcultural African literatures, areas of literary production where the confluence of several languages, whether indigenous and (post)colonial in the first case, and local and global in the second case, appears to be a central and decisive factor in the formation and transformation of the continent and its peoples’ cultural identities.
English; one contribution in French.
9789401207553
10.1163/9789401207553 DOI
1900-2099
African literature (English)--History and criticism.
African literature--History and criticism.--20th century
African literature--History and criticism.--21st century
Literary style.
African literature.
African literature (English)
Style, Literary.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PR9340.5 / .S796 2012eb
820.996