Literature and Culture in Global Africa

List of contents

1. Introduction: Background;

2. John Barth and Modern African Literature: Exhaustion and Replenishment;

3. Michel Foucault and the Urhobo Udje Oral Poetic Tradition: Madness, Power, and Resistance;

4. Losing Cultural Ground in the Global Space: Africa’s Profit and Loss in Globalization;

5. Environmentalism in African Literature: Origins and Development;

6. Love, Sex, and Sexuality in African Folklore and Literature;

7. African Literature of Advocacy;

8. The New Orality in Contemporary African Literature;

9. The Present in the Everlasting: Overcoming Contemporaneity in African Poetry;

10. Literature and Political Leadership in Africa;

11. Theorizing Modern/Contemporary African Literature;

12. Conclusion: Towards a New African Literature in a Global Age.

About the author

Tanure Ojaide is the Frank Porter Graham Professor of Africana Studies at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA. He has published nineteen poetry collections, four novels, three short story collections, two memoirs and six scholarly books.

Summary

Exploring the idea of a ‘Global Africa’, this book examines how African literary and cultural productions have changed due to the social and political influences brought about by increased globalisation. A variety of European theoretical concepts are applied to Africa, demonstrating the universality of the African experience.

Product details

• Authors: Tanure Ojaide, Tanure (University of North Carolina Ojaide, Ojaide Tanure
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780367887469
• ISBN: 978-0-367-88746-9
• No. of pages: 136
• Series: Global Africa
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Oral History, Cultural Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Africa, Social & cultural history, LITERARY CRITICISM / African, Social and cultural history, Literary studies: general, Literature: history and criticism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / African Studies