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Journal articles on the topic "African fiction"

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Kumar, Fayaz Ahmad, and Colette Morrow. "Theorizing Black Power Movement in African American Literature: An Analysis of Morrison's Fiction." Global Language Review V, no. IV (2020): 45–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/glr.2020(v-iv).06.

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This paper analyzes the influence of the Black Power movement on the AfricanAmerican literary productions; especially in the fictional works of Toni Morrison. As an African-American author, Toni Morrison presents the idea of 'Africanness' in her novels. Morrison's fiction comments on the fluid bond amongst the African-American community, the Black Power and Black Aesthetics. The works of Morrison focus on various critical points in the history of African-Americans, her fiction recalls not only the memory of Africa but also contemplates the contemporary issues. Morrison situates the power polit
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Ndamira, Joan Kyarimpa, and Jovuret Kyarimpa. "A Fictional Depiction of the Peculiarities of the African Female Gender Experiences in the Diaspora." East African Journal of Arts and Social Sciences 7, no. 1 (2024): 232–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.37284/eajass.7.1.1880.

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The issue of Africans in the Diaspora stretches historically to the time when Africa began having contact with the outside world, particularly the Arabs, Chinese, Turks, and others. Beginning with the 16th to the 18th C, the contacts heightened during the Trans- Atlantic Slave Trade. Thereafter, Africans have found themselves in the Diaspora for many reasons. This has elicited a myriad of reactions to their experiences in the Diaspora. Therefore, the study sought to investigate the fictional depiction of African immigrant experiences in the Diaspora. It was guided by two objectives namely: to
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Okuhata, Yutaka. "Inheriting the “Unfinished Business”: An Introductory Study of the Dictator Novel Set in Africa." East-West Cultural Passage 22, no. 2 (2022): 87–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ewcp-2022-0017.

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Abstract Whereas so-called dictator fiction in Latin America is already established as a significant literary subgenre, it is only recently that an increasing number of studies have started to deal with its counterpart set in Africa. In fact, both inside and outside the postcolonial African continent, dictator novels have been written in several languages, including English, French, Arabic, and Kikuyu. One of the most outstanding achievements among recent studies of this kind of fiction is Magali Armillas-Tiseyra’s The Dictator Novel: Writers and Politics in the Global South (2019), which exam
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Ohia, Dr Ben-Fred. "The Protest Tradition in African Literature: Symbolism in Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah." Journal of Humanities,Music and Dance, no. 35 (September 21, 2023): 34–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.55529/jhmd.35.34.40.

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critical examination of African literature will show that Africa before the advent of Europeans in Africa had two types of literature namely: oral literature and literature written in the indigenous languages. African literature raises the question of defining African literature geographically, racially or culturally and any impingement on any of these is vehemently opposed by African writers in their works: protest novel, protest drama and protest poetry alike. The main purpose of this paper is to explore and establish the idea of “protest” as aspect of the African fiction (novel) as espoused
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Olufayo, Ezekiel Gbenga. "Cannibalistic and Pornographic Images of Lagos City in Toni Kan’s The Carnivorous City." International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences 7, no. 3 (2022): 152–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.22161/ijels.73.21.

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The city is a spatial phenomenon that conditions the production of African city literature and reveals African urban life, experience, relations and problems in the aftermath of colonialism. Sociopolitical, economic and cultural issues have been of more interest to extrinsic critics of African city fiction than exploring the aesthetics that make city a universal subject in African literature. Studies on The Carnivorous City are qualitative towards the novelist’s penchant for city-life, acculturation, human struggle, greed, love, corruption and other post-independent issues in Africa, yet, Kan’
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Opoku-Agyemang, Kwabena. "Digital cities and villages: African writers and a sense of place in short online fiction." Journal of African Media Studies 15, no. 2 (2023): 217–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jams_00101_1.

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This article analyses how young African writers challenge stereotypes about the continent through their imagination of places in online short stories. These stories appear on the literary websites Brittle Paper, Jalada, Saraba, Flash Fiction Ghana, Adda and African Writer Magazine with a focus on cities and villages. Authored by ten writers from Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Malawi and Egypt, the stories contain elements of fiction that risk perpetuating negative stereotypes about Africa as they imagine their respective settings. However, textual analysis supported by an appreciation of context revea
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Smith, Robert P., and Derek Wright. "Contemporary African Fiction." World Literature Today 72, no. 4 (1998): 889. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40154434.

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Kom, Ambroise, and R. H. Mitsch. "New Directions in African Fiction, and: Contemporary African Fiction (review)." Research in African Literatures 31, no. 2 (2000): 217–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ral.2000.0056.

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Bariki, Isaiah. "Translating African Names in Fiction." Íkala, Revista de Lenguaje y Cultura 14, no. 3 (2009): 43–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.17533/udea.ikala.3158.

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In this paper, we study the sociocultural and ethno-pragmatic significance of African names as used by the Yoruba and Izon of Nigeria and the Akan of Ghana. From the perspective of linguistic anthropology, we show the non-arbitrary nature of these names and demonstrate the need to translate them, particularly in fictional texts, so that their significance may be preserved.
 Received: 25-11-08 / Accepted: 07-07-09
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 Bariki, I. (2009). Translating African Names in Fiction. Íkala. 14(3), pp.43-61
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Okolo, Mary Stella Chika. "The need for a Philosophical reading of African Literature." Edumania-An International Multidisciplinary Journal 01, no. 02 (2023): 244–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.59231/edumania/8987.

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Literature permeates all the labyrinth of human experience. This is because literature acts as both a reflection and a reflector of society. Through the depiction of the life of individual characters the fundamental symbols and values which unite social groups across countries and in different periods of time are conveyed through literature. Important as this consideration may be, its full impact and import cannot be harnessed if they are presented as works of fiction. The main aim of literature as work of fiction is to entertain. Yet in the African context, especially given its historical bur
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "African fiction"

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Hugo, Esthie. "Gothic urbanism in contemporary African fiction." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20691.

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This project surveys representations of the African city in contemporary Nigerian and South African narratives by focusing on how they employ Gothic techniques as a means of drawing the African urban landscape into being. The texts that comprise my objects of study are South African author Henrietta Rose-Innes's Nineveh (2011), which takes as its setting contemporary Cape Town; Lagoon (2014) by American-Nigerian author Nnedi Okorafor, who sets her tale in present-day Lagos; and Zoo City (2010) by Lauren Beukes, another South African author who locates her narrative in a near-future version of
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Naidu, Sam. "South African crime fiction: sleuthing the State post-1994, African Identities." African Identities, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/53912.

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In this essay we demonstrate how the burgeoning field of South African crime fiction has responded to the birth and development of a democratic, post-apartheid South African state. First, an overview of South African crime fiction in the last 20 years is presented. Then the essay presents an argument for South African crime fiction to be regarded as the ‘new political novel’, based on its capacity for socio-political analysis. We use Deon Meyer, arguably South Africa’s most popular and successful crime fiction author, as an exemplar for our argument. In the following section, the genresnob deb
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Ross, Simon John. "Theories of African fiction : writing between cultures." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.239020.

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Ndabayakhe, Vuyiswa. "Attitudes towards polygamy in select African fiction." Thesis, University of Zululand, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10530/1354.

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A dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Arts in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the Department of English at the University of Zululand, South Africa, 2013.<br>Polygamy is widely practised in African communities. The African social-realist novel, especially when it is woman-authored, shows female characters as having to play docile, subservient roles and accept demeaning positions in polygamous marriages. Although it has been claimed that traditional African marriage creates a satisfactory situation for women, mainly by means of the security it
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Green, Michael. "Fiction as a historicizing form : uses of history in modern South African fiction." Thesis, University of York, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.316162.

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Caminero-Santangelo, Byron. "African fiction and Joseph Conrad : reading postcolonial intertextuality /." Albany : State university of New York press, 2004. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40052366r.

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Naidu, Sam. "Fears and desires in South African crime fiction." Routledge, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/53765.

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This article is a review of a burgeoning literary genre, South African crime fiction, as much as it is a review of specific texts. First, for the purposes of contextualisation and historicisation, an overview of the primary literature is provided. Then criticism and theories of extant crime fiction in mainly the UK and USA, of which South African crime fiction is a descendent, are outlined. This outline is followed by descriptions of two sub-genres (the crime thriller novel and the literary detective novel). Two exemplar texts, Devil’s Peak (2007) and Lost Ground (2011) are then reviewed. The
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Pretorius, Sian Eve. "Non-fiction in fiction : poor whites in selected South African literary texts from 1900-1950." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/53455.

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The term poor white is not uncommon and neither is the whole phenomenon. The topic dominated much of the academic, media and entertainment spheres for the better part of the twentieth century. This dissertation examines poor whites in fiction and non-fiction and attempts to demonstrate that there is a certain overlap. Thus by combining the two types of literature it shows that the selected novels, written during the first half of the twentieth century by authors from the Realist genre, may be considered cultural historical sources in their own right in terms of portraying the daily lives a
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Gibson, Simone Cade. "Critical engagements adolescent african american girls and urban fiction /." College Park, Md.: University of Maryland, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/9110.

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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2009.<br>Thesis research directed by: Dept. of Curriculum and Instruction. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Buyu, Mathew Osunga. "Racial intercourse in Joseph Conrad's Malayan and African fiction." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.362812.

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Books on the topic "African fiction"

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Derek, Wright, ed. Contemporary African fiction. E. Breitinger, 1997.

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E, Fleming Robert, ed. African-American fiction. McFarland, 1992.

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Loflin, Christine. African horizons: The landscapes of African fiction. Greenwood Press, 1998.

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Losambe, Lokangaka. Borderline movements in African fiction. Africa World Press, 2005.

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Onuekwusi, Jasper. Viewpoints on selected African fiction. Imo State University Press, 2007.

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Lyn, Early Gerald, and Harris E. Lynn, eds. Best African American fiction 2009. Bantam Books, 2009.

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Chela, Efemia. Exhale: Queer African erotic fiction. Blardbird Books, 2020.

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Lazarus, Neil. Resistance in postcolonial African fiction. Yale University Press, 1990.

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1968-, Newell Stephanie, and International African Institute, eds. Readings in African popular fiction. International African Institute in association with Indiana University Press, 2002.

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Toyin, Falola, and Ngom Fallou, eds. Facts, fiction, and African creative imaginations. Routledge, 2009.

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Book chapters on the topic "African fiction"

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Desai, Gaurav. "Fiction." In Encyclopedia of African Religions and Philosophy. Springer Netherlands, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-2068-5_155.

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Clark, Priscilla P. "West African prose fiction." In Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages. Akadémiai Kiadó, 1986. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/chlel.vi.12cla.

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Tucker, Jeffrey Allen. "African American Science Fiction." In A Companion to African American Literature. Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781444323474.ch24.

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Ezeiyoke, Chukwunonso. "The Evolution of African Speculative Fiction." In Nigerian Speculative Fiction. Routledge India, 2025. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003585466-2.

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Ellis, R. J. "African-American Fiction and Poetry." In A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American South. Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470756935.ch15.

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İbrişim, Deniz Gündoğan. "South African Fiction in English." In Mapping World Anglophone Studies. Routledge India, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003464037-5.

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Tunca, Daria. "Towards an ‘African Stylistics’?" In Stylistic Approaches to Nigerian Fiction. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137264411_2.

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Harris, Ashleigh. "Concurrent Whiteness: Science Fiction Film’s Close Encounters in Apartheid South Africa." In History and Speculative Fiction. Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42235-5_3.

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AbstractThis chapter brings the theoretical term “concurrences” to bear on a reading of how US popular filmic depictions of whiteness flowed seamlessly into white South African life during the time of apartheid. I wager that we might productively use the term to consider the ways in which dominant signs and identities, in this case whiteness, might be sustained across different political and ideological terrains through the media of popular culture. Focusing on Steven Spielberg’s 1977 film, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, which premiered in South Africa in 1979, I investigate how science f
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Bailey, Frankie. "African-American Detection and Crime Fiction." In A Companion to Crime Fiction. Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781444317916.ch21.

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Okoro, Dike. "African fiction and the prison experience." In Futurism and the African Imagination. Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003179146-13.

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Conference papers on the topic "African fiction"

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Streete, Annicia. "The Design Student as Storyteller: An Afro- Futuristic Perspective of Storytelling." In 2023 ACSA/EAAE Teachers Conference. ACSA Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.35483/acsa.teach.2023.1.

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A futuristic perspective of “storytelling” as an educating design tool in an architecture elective course that explores Afrofuturism within Architecture. Afrofuturism offers a critical approach to thinking about future built environments of African and African Diasporic communities throughout the world. The course is rooted in a method that introduces Afrofuturism, a school of thought addressing intersections of afro-culture, the use of science and technology to project futures of liberation and in¬novation, using imagination.1 A study of Ten Principles of Black Space Design, authored by Ameri
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Berkland, Ross, and Shaun Bangay. "Identifying annotations for adventure game generation from fiction text." In the 2010 Annual Research Conference of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists. ACM Press, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1899503.1899506.

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Glass, Kevin, and Shaun Bangay. "Hierarchical rule generalisation for speaker identification in fiction books." In the 2006 annual research conference of the South African institute of computer scientists and information technologists. ACM Press, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1216262.1216266.

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Glass, Kevin, and Shaun Bangay. "Constraint-based conversion of fiction text to a time-based graphical representation." In the 2007 annual research conference of the South African institute of computer scientists and information technologists. ACM Press, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1292491.1292494.

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Tavares, Tatiana. "Paradoxical saints: Polyvocality in an interactive AR digital narrative." In LINK 2021. Tuwhera Open Access, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.24135/link2021.v2i1.81.

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This artistic, practice-led PhD thesis is concerned with the potentials of polyvocality and interactive digital narrative. The practical project, Saints of Paradox, is constructed as a printed picture book that can be experienced through an Augmented Reality [AR] platform. The fictional story entails a woman who mourns the disappearance of her lover in the 1964 Brazilian coup d’état and lives for 40 years in a room of accumulated memories. IIn each illustration, the user can select three buttons on the tablet device that activates a different version of the story. Three narrators (saints) pres
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Abzianidze, Zaza. "Literature as Alternative History (Post-Soviet Conflicts in Georgian Prose)." In XII Congress of the ICLA. Georgian Comparative Literature Association, 2025. https://doi.org/10.62119/icla.3.8940.

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In the new millennium, Georgian prose began consistently shifting moral coordinates, this time on the map of contemporary history. The totality of the works cited here can be considered as an example of– the example, that is, of a fictional narrative assimilating the no man’s land untouched by historiography. The most ethically confrontational is Otar Chiladze’s novel, “Godori” (2002). Otar Chkheidze wrote in the introduction to his pertinent novel “White Bear” (1999). Guram Odisharia (“The Return to Sokhumi” ,1995), and Gela Chkvanava (“Toreadors”, 2006) describe the war inAbkhazia with shock
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