Critical Theory and African Literature
Author | : Ernest Emenyo̲nu |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Ernest Emenyo̲nu |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Reiland Rabaka |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 453 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0739128868 |
Building on and going far beyond W.E.B. Du Bois and the Problems of the Twenty-First Century and Du Bois's Dialectics, Reiland Rabaka's Africana Critical Theory innovatively identifies and analyzes continental and diasporan African contributions to classical and contemporary critical theory. This book represents a climatic critical theoretical clincher that cogently demonstrates how Du Bois's rarely discussed dialectical thought, interdisciplinarity, intellectual history-making radical political activism, and world-historical multiple liberation movement leadership helped to inaugurate a distinct Africana tradition of critical theory. With chapters on W.E.B. Du Bois, C.L.R. James, Negritude (Aime Cesaire and Leopold Senghor), Frantz Fanon and Amilcar Cabral, Africana Critical Theory endeavors to accessibly offer contemporary critical theorists an intellectual archaeology of the Africana tradition of critical theory and a much-needed dialectical deconstruction and reconstruction of black radical politics. These six seminal figures' collective thought and texts clearly cuts across several disciplines and, therefore, closes the chasm between Africana Studies and critical theory, constantly demanding that intellectuals not simply think deep thoughts, develop new theories, and theoretically support radical politics, but be and constantly become political activists, social organizers and cultural workers - that is, folk the Italian critical theorist Antonio Gramsci referred to as 'organic intellectuals.' In this sense, then, the series of studies gathered in Africana Critical Theory contribute not only to African Studies, African American Studies, Caribbean Studies, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, and Postcolonial Studies, but also to contemporary critical theoretical discourse across an amazingly wide-range of 'traditional' disciplines, and radical political activism outside of (and, in many instances, absolutely against) Europe's ivory towers and the absurdities of the American academy.
Author | : Chinyere Nwahunanya |
Publisher | : Arbi Pres |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780979238680 |
Nwahunanya examines major issues in contemporary literary criticism and critical theory especially as they concern African literature. Both diachronic and synchronic in his approach, he addresses mainstream issues that come under the purvey of literary criticism and literary history, the aesthetics of African poetry and the relationship between African dramatists and dramatists of the Absurd.
Author | : Eldred Durosimi Jones |
Publisher | : Africa Research and Publications |
Total Pages | : 122 |
Release | : 1995-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780865434417 |
An analysis of the literary criticism of modern African Literature.
Author | : Tejumola Olaniyan |
Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | : 796 |
Release | : 2007-07-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781405112000 |
This is the first anthology to bring together the key texts of African literary theory and criticism. Brings together key texts that are otherwise hard to locate Covers all genres and critical schools Provides the intellectual context for understanding African literature Facilitates the future development of African literary criticism
Author | : Eldred D. Jones |
Publisher | : James Currey Publishers |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : |
North America: Africa World Press
Author | : Lois Tyson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2011-11-16 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1136645683 |
Explaining both why theory is important and how to use it, Lois Tyson introduces beginning students of literature to this often daunting area in a friendly and approachable style. The new edition of this textbook is clearly structured with chapters based on major theories that students are expected to cover in their studies. Key features include: coverage of major theories including psychoanalysis, Marxism, feminism, lesbian/gay/queer theories, postcolonial theory, African American theory, and a new chapter on New Criticism (formalism) practical demonstrations of how to use these theories on short literary works selected from canonical authors including William Faulkner and Alice Walker a new chapter on reader-response theory that shows students how to use their personal responses to literature while avoiding typical pitfalls new sections on cultural criticism for each chapter new ‘further practice’ and ‘further reading’ sections for each chapter a useful "next step" appendix that suggests additional literary titles for extra practice. Comprehensive, easy to use, and fully updated throughout, Using Critical Theory is the ideal first step for students beginning degrees in literature, composition and cultural studies.
Author | : Winston Napier |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 745 |
Release | : 2000-07 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0814758096 |
Fifty-one essays by writers such as Langston Hughes, W.E.B. Du Bois, Ralph Ellison, and Zora Neale Hurston, as well as critics and academics such as Henry Louis Gates, Jr. examine the central texts and arguments in African American literary theory from the 1920s through the present. Contributions are organized chronologically beginning with the rise of a black aesthetic criticism, through the Black Arts Movement, feminism, structuralism and poststructuralism, queer theory, and cultural studies. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Jean-Paul Rocchi |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2018-08-24 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1783484004 |
This book explores how contemporary black literature challenges theoretical approaches of race, gender and sexualities.
Author | : Christopher L. Miller |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0226528022 |
"Situating literature and anthropology in mutual interrogation, Miller's...book actually performs what so many of us only call for. Nowhere have all the crucial issues been brought together with the sort of critical sophistication it displays."—Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ". . . a superb cross-disciplinary analysis."—Y. Mudimbe