The Writing of East and Central Africa
Author | : G. D. Killam |
Publisher | : East African Publishers |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780435916718 |
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Author | : G. D. Killam |
Publisher | : East African Publishers |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780435916718 |
Author | : Adrian A. Roscoe |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0231130422 |
Columbia's guides to postwar African literature paint a unique portrait of the continent's rich and diverse literary traditions. This volume examines the rapid rise and growth of modern literature in the three postcolonial nations of Zimbabwe, Malawi, and Zambia. It tracks the multiple political and economic pressures that have shaped Central African writing since the end of World War II and reveals its authors' heroic efforts to keep their literary traditions alive in the face of extreme poverty and AIDS. Adrian Roscoe begins with a list of key political events. Since writers were composing within both colonial and postcolonial contexts, he pays particular attention to the nature of British colonialism, especially theories regarding its provenance and motivation. Roscoe discusses such historical figures as David Livingstone, Cecil Rhodes, and Sir Harry Johnston, as well as modern power players, including Robert Mugabe, Kenneth Kaunda, and Kamuzu Banda. He also addresses efforts to create a literary-historical record from an African perspective, an account that challenges white historiographies in which the colonized was neither agent nor informer. A comprehensive alphabetical guide profiles both established and emerging authors and further illustrates issues raised in the introduction. Roscoe then concludes with a detailed bibliography recommending additional reading and sources. At the close of World War II the people of Central Africa found themselves mired in imperial fatigue and broken promises of freedom. This fueled a desire for liberation and a major surge in literary production, and in this illuminating guide Roscoe details the campaigns for social justice and political integrity, for education and economic empowerment, and for gender equity, participatory democracy, rural development, and environmental care that characterized this exciting period of development.
Author | : Mpalive-Hangson Msiska |
Publisher | : Addison-Wesley Longman |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Fourteen interdisciplinary essays probing themes presented by writings from and about Africa. The contributing scholars touch on studies of the African Diaspora, particularly in Britain and the Caribbean, exploring the relationship between writing and discourses of empire, decolonization, post-coloniality and gender within the framework of North African, West African, and East and Central African popular writing and oral traditions. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Basil Davidson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Historical study of social change and cultural change in Africa South of Sahara, with particular reference to East Africa and Central Africa - refers to the period prior to the 20th century, and covers geographical aspects, political aspects, tribal peoples, demographic aspects and cultural factors, leadership, tradition, migrations, religion, languages, family and social structures, the role of European countries, etc. Bibliography pp. 325 to 327 and maps.
Author | : Luise White |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 2023-04-28 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0520922298 |
During the colonial period, Africans told each other terrifying rumors that Africans who worked for white colonists captured unwary residents and took their blood. In colonial Tanganyika, for example, Africans were said to be captured by these agents of colonialism and hung upside down, their throats cut so their blood drained into huge buckets. In Kampala, the police were said to abduct Africans and keep them in pits, where their blood was sucked. Luise White presents and interprets vampire stories from East and Central Africa as a way of understanding the world as the storytellers did. Using gossip and rumor as historical sources in their own right, she assesses the place of such evidence, oral and written, in historical reconstruction. White conducted more than 130 interviews for this book and did research in Kenya, Uganda, and Zambia. In addition to presenting powerful, vivid stories that Africans told to describe colonial power, the book presents an original epistemological inquiry into the nature of historical truth and memory, and into their relationship to the writing of history.
Author | : Josef J. Schmied |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : African literature (English) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Adrian Roscoe |
Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1977-06-30 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780521290890 |
First published in 1977, this is an eminently readable introduction to contemporary literature in Eastern, Central and Southern Africa. The author examines work in verse, prose and drama, and discusses vernacular language problems, the role of oral literature and tradition and the varied responses to the struggle for freedom and its achievement. He argues that African literature is achieving its own inner dynamic, revealing a rapid spread of influences from one side of the continent to the other and a decrease in influences from the Western world. Part of his argument is based on a discussion of authors not yet known outside East and Central Africa, but whose works shows signs of great promise and originality. Dr Roscoe has close personal knowledge of many of the authors he discusses, as he has worked in East and Central African universities throughout the period of the literary awakening he discusses.
Author | : Robert M. Maxon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
"East Africa: An Introductory History documents the transformation of East Africa from the Stone Age to the first decade of the twenty-first century. The book is ideal for any reader interested in unraveling the intricate history of East Africa, and especially for students coming to the study of this region for the first time."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Mark Hawkins-Dady |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 1024 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 1135314179 |
Reader's Guide Literature in English provides expert guidance to, and critical analysis of, the vast number of books available within the subject of English literature, from Anglo-Saxon times to the current American, British and Commonwealth scene. It is designed to help students, teachers and librarians choose the most appropriate books for research and study.