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Journal articles on the topic "African literature (english), bibliography"
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Gates, Henry Louis. "Introduction: “Tell Me, Sir, … What Is ‘Black’ Literature?”." Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 105, no. 1 (1990): 11–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/s0030812900069431.
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For those of us who were students or professors of African or African American literature in the late sixties or through the seventies, it is a thing of wonder to behold the various ways in which our specialties and the works we explicate and teach have moved, if not exactly from the margins to the center of the profession of literature, at least from defensive postures to a position of generally accepted validity. My own graduate students often greet with polite skepticism an anecdote I draw on in the introduction to my seminars. When I was a student at the University of Cambridge, Wole Soyinka, recently released from a two-year confinement in a Nigerian prison, was on campus to deliver a lecture series on African literature (collected and published by Cambridge in 1976 under the title Myth, Literature, and the African World). Soyinka had come to Cambridge in 1973 from Ghana, where he had been living in exile, ostensibly to assume a two-year lectureship in the faculty of English. To his astonishment, as he told me in our first supervision, the faculty of English apparently did not recognize African literature as a legitimate area of study within the “English” tripos, so he had been forced to accept an appointment in social anthropology, of all things! (Much later, the distinguished Nigerian literary scholar Emmanuel Obiechina related a similar tale when I asked him why he had taken his Cambridge doctorate in social anthropology.) Shortly after I heard Soyinka's story, I asked the tutor in English at Clare College, Cambridge, why Soyinka had been treated this way, explaining as politely as I could that I would very much like to write a doctoral thesis on “black literature.” To which the tutor replied with great disdain, “Tell me, sir, … what is black literature?” When I responded with a veritable bibliography of texts written by authors who were black, his evident irritation informed me that I had taken as a serious request for information what he had intended as a rhetorical question.
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Arndt, Susan. "Trans*textuality in William Shakespeare’s Othello: Italian, West African, and English Encounters." Anglia 136, no. 3 (2018): 393–429. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ang-2018-0045.
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Abstract William Shakespeare’s Othello (1604) displays a critical agenda towards the emerging colonialist discourse of his time and may have encountered, or even been influenced by, African oral literature. This thesis will be probed in this article by comparing Othello with the folktale “The Handsome Stranger” and the Trickster character, well known all across Western Africa, touching lightly on Leo Africanus’s The History and Description of Africa (1550) in the process. In doing so, Othello’s most acknowledged source text, “Un Capitano Moro” by Giovanni Battista Giraldi (1565), will be involved, thus complementing earlier comparative readings of “Un Capitano Moro” and Othello. This postcolonial comparative reading will finally embrace Ahmed Yerima’s adaptation of Othello, entitled Otaelo (2002). In doing so, the article will discuss striking parallels among all four texts, as well as differences and diversions. The latter are, however, not read as counter arguments to the possibility of an encounter; rather, discursive diversions are contextualised historically and trans*textually. Before delving into this analysis, the article will explore both historical probabilities and methodological challenges of reading African oral literature as possible sources of Shakespeare’s Othello, as well as theorise trans*textuality (as related to and yet distinct from Kristeva’s intertextuality and Genette’s transtextuality).This article has developed from two papers, one held in 2015 at a symposium dedicated to Michael Steppat in Bayreuth, who, ever since, accompanied this project with most helpful critical input; I owe him my sincerest gratitude. A second workshop on this topic was held in 2016 in Berlin in the presence of Shankar Raman, Christopher Joseph Odhiambo, and a student research group from Bayreuth with Taghrid Elhanafy, Weeraya Donsomsakulkij, Samira Paraschiv, and Mingqing Yuan. Taghrid Elhanafy dedicates her MA and PhD thesis to comparing Romeo and Juliet with several Arabic and Farsi versions of Layla and Majnun (Cf. Elhanafy 2018). Moreover, this article owes sincere gratitude to a most challenging and expert editing by Shirin Assa, PhD candidate at Bayreuth University, as well as Omid Soltani. Moreover, I wish to thank Dilan Zoe Smida and especially Samira Paraschiv for supporting me while doing research and working on notes and bibliography.
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Gibbs, James. "BOOK REVIEW: Chris Dunton.NIGERIAN THEATRE IN ENGLISH: A CRITICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY. Bibliographical Research in African Literatures 5. London: Hans Zell, 1998." Research in African Literatures 30, no. 4 (1999): 222–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/ral.1999.30.4.222.
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Coger, Dalvan M. "BOOK REVIEW: Dunton, Chris. NIGERIAN THEATRE IN ENGLISH: A CRITICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY. VOL. 5, BIBLIOGRAPHIC RESEARCH IN AFRICAN LITERATURES. London: Hans Zell, 1988." Africa Today 47, no. 2 (2000): 188–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/aft.2000.47.2.188.
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Driver, Dorothy. "Modern South African Literature in English: A Reader's Guide to Some Recent Critical and Bibliographic Resources." World Literature Today 70, no. 1 (1996): 99. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40151862.
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Mattingly, David J., and R. Bruce Hitchner. "Roman Africa: An Archaeological Review." Journal of Roman Studies 85 (November 1995): 165–213. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/301062.
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The significance of the African provinces is well-appreciated in historical studies of the Roman Empire, but there is a distinct lack of good summaries in English on recent developments in the field of study. Some introductory books sacrifice readability in favour of detail, others offer a more synthetic view, but lack depth. The bibliography is now vast and ever more intimidating for the uninitiated; we hope that what follows will serve both as a useful introduction for those new to the field and as a refresher for others. In this review we have concentrated on developments which seem to us to be of particular importance, whilst directing the reader's attention to basic references in other areas. The emphasis throughout is on archaeological work and this will explain short measure having to be given to some important historic and epigraphic studies. Another choice had to be the geographical limits of the study and, mostly, we have restricted our coverage to Africa Proconsularis and Numidia, though certain themes demand expanding the horizons to sites in the Mauretanian provinces and Cyrenaica also. We have considered 1970 as an appropriate start-date for our survey, allowing us to review developments across the last twenty five years, though necessarily with greater emphasis being placed on publications of the last decade.
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Salm, Leah, Roosmarijn Verstraeten, Nicholas Nisbett, and Andrew Booth. "Exploring the drivers of malnutrition in West Africa from health and social science perspectives: A comparative methodological review." Methodological Innovations 14, no. 3 (2021): 205979912110514. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20597991211051445.
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West Africa has a high burden of malnutrition and the drivers are often complex, highly context-specific, and cut across individual, social, political and environmental domains. Public health research most often considers immediate individual health and diet drivers, at the expense of wider considerations that may fall outside of a health agenda. The objective of this systematic mapping review is to map the broad drivers of malnutrition in West Africa, from public health and social science perspectives, and to evaluate the additional value of an interdisciplinary approach. Evidence was gathered from one public health (MEDLINE) and one social science (International Bibliography of Social Science) database using a detailed search syntax tailored to each disciplinary configuration. Literature was screened against pre-determined eligibility criteria and extracted from abstracts. Studies published in English or French between January 2010 and April 2018 were considered for inclusion. Driver categories (immediate, underlying and basic drivers) were coded against the UNICEF conceptual framework of malnutrition. A total of 358 studies were included; 237 were retrieved from the public health database and 124 from the social science database, 3 studies were included in both. The public health and social science literature document different drivers, with MEDLINE most often reporting immediate drivers of malnutrition and the International Bibliography of Social Science database reporting underlying and basic drivers. The combined literature offers more balanced representation across categories. An interdisciplinary approach proved successful in achieving complementarity in search results while upholding rigorous methods. We recommend that interdisciplinary approaches are utilised to bridge recognised gaps between defined disciplines.
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Ogude, James. "Simon Gikandi and Evan Mwangi. The Columbia Guide to East African Literature in English Since 1945. The Columbia Guides to Literature Since 1945 series. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. xxii + 194 pp. References. Selected Bibliography. Index. $75.00. Cloth." African Studies Review 51, no. 1 (2008): 185–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/arw.0.0011.
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Bedoya del Campillo, A., N. Lleopart, ChQR, Ghuman, M. Álvarez, M. Montilla, and PA Martínez-Carpio. "Intervention protocol to improve scabies control in enclosed communities: a case report." Revista Española de Sanidad Penitenciaria 23, no. 1 (2021): 37–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.18176/resp.00029.
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Objectives: To describe patients with scabies in a prison setting. Document what type of treatment was carried out. Prepare an intervention protocol to improve scabies control in the Penitentiary Center. Material and method: All cases of scabies diagnosed in the Youth Detention Centre (La Roca del Vallès, Barcelona) between November 2018 and November 2019 were recorded. The treatment used was recorded. Bibliographical research on the protocols and treatment guidelines was carried out for community-acquired scabies. Results: The study was performed with 762 inmates, of whom 61 patients were diagnosed with scabies. 39 patients’ pathologies were detected at the time of admission to the center, 11 cases were diagnosed in the first 6 weeks after entering the prison, coinciding with the incubation period of the disease. Finally, 11 more were diagnosed when they had already been in prison for more than 6 weeks and therefore could be infected cases within the center. This parasitosis was detected mainly in inmates of North African origin, 14.7% of Algerian inmates and 14.2% of Moroccan inmates presented this pathology, compared to 1.6% among Spanish prisoners. All 61 patients were treated with permethrin and 8 cases had to repeat the treatment cycle due to apparent therapeutic failure. Research literature indicates that oral ivermectin should be the drug of first choice for the treatment of scabies in prison. Discussion: The high incidence of scabies cases detected in prison led us to carry out a bibliographic review that brought about changes in the treatment protocol that may be of interest for the control of the disease in closed communities.
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Ayeni, Olubimpe A., Olubukunola O. Ayeni, and Robert Jackson. "Observations on the Procedural Aspects and Health Effects of Scarification in Sub-Saharan Africa." Journal of Cutaneous Medicine and Surgery 11, no. 6 (2007): 217–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.2310/7750.2007.00026.
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Background: Scarification involves cutting or making an incision into the skin and then allowing the wound to heal, leaving a permanent scar. The purpose of this article is to examine the origins of scarification and its social and medical significance in sub-Saharan Africa. Methods: We conducted a computerized search in the MEDLINE electronic database with combinations of the following terms: scarification, tribal marks, keloid, hypertrophic scar, Africa, and sub-Saharan Africa. Inclusion criteria were studies published in English involving human participants. We reviewed the bibliography of each article that met our inclusion criteria for additional relevant studies. We abstracted data on the historical, social, and medical aspects of scarification from eligible studies. Results: This review of scarification in sub-Saharan Africa highlights the complex interplay that exists between biology and society. Photographs, artwork, and literary descriptions reveal that scarification results in hypertrophic or atrophic scars, although these types of scars are often mistakenly referred to as keloids. In terms of the procedural aspects of scarification, specific tools and substances were consistently used by various ethnic groups. Although much is known about the history of scarification as a form of identification in Africa, it appears that the practice also had medical applications. Scarification was used to treat conditions such as epilepsy, although it was also known to exacerbate conditions such as sarcoidosis, lichen planus, and psoriasis. Evolving cultural beliefs, in addition to the association of scarification with an increased risk of contracting hepatitis B and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), are contemporary threats to this long-standing practice. Conclusions: Given the remarkably consistent appearance of scars that are described in the literature and depicted in images, scarification does not appear to be a random or accidental occurrence. Instead, it is a deliberate attempt to reproduce a custom that has been perfected after many years of practice in sub-Saharan Africa.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "African literature (english), bibliography"
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Geider, Thomas. "A bibliography of Swahili literature, culture and history." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2012. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-91490.
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The present alphabetical Bibliography ranging from `Abdalla` to `Zhukov` includes old and new titles on Swahili Literature, Linguistics, Culture and History. Swahili Studies or \'Swahilistics\' have grown strong since the mid-1980s when scholars started to increasingly engage in international networking, first by communicating through the newsletter Swahili Language and Society: Notes and News from Vienna (Nos. 1.1984-9.1992) and Antwerp (No. 10.1993) and then through the journal Swahili Forum published at the University of Cologne (Nos. I. 1994 - IX. 2002), not to mention the numerous conferences held in Dar es Salaam, Nairobi, London, Bayreuth and other places, and not to forget the achievements of the journal Kiswahili from Dar es Salaam as another steady medium of Swahili scholarship. Of course, this Bibliography is not the only one: other useful and specialized bibliographical information appeared in articles, surveys, reference books and larger studies, which are indicated in the following. Part of the titles have been extracted from these sources and integrated into the present Bibliography after having had a physical look at them. As this was not always possible, it seems still to be advisable and necessary to consult the indicated sources themselves when it comes to selecting one\'s base of research literature.
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Bolanos-Salvatierra, Luis M. "Annotated bibliography of Salomon de la Selva's collected poems." FIU Digital Commons, 2009. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1721.
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The purpose of my project is to provide a compilation of the work of Nicaraguan born poet, Salomon De la Selva, who incidentally was nominated for a Nobel Prize in 1919, and was the first Latin-American poet to publish extensively in English. In order to achieve this goal, my research methods included the substantial use of the Internet, as well as two investigative trips to Mexico and one to Nicaragua, which ultimately led me to uncover a total of 135 unaccounted English-language poems. In addition, De la Selva's uniqueness lies in the fact that he was a truly bilingual writer, who was equally able to create both in English and Spanish, simultaneously. Therefore, my project not only represents an act of reclamation, but the new material also provides new exciting possibilities for his work by facilitating an intertextual analysis of his poems, which will aid in understanding the complexities of bilingualism.
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Kuhn, Justin. ""Instructive Recreations": Playbooks and Political Stability in the English Republic, 1649-1660." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu155558224340157.
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Piaseckyj, Oksana. "Bibliography of Ukrainian literature in English and French translation (1950-1983) and criticisms." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/4647.
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Kreuz, Jill. "Shakespeare on South African television." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21692.
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This study undertakes the analysis of the eight productions of Shakespeare that were produced for television by the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) between 1977 and 1988. The plays that were selected for production are Much Ado About Nothing (1977) Macbeth (1980) Twelfth Night (1981), A Midsummer Night's Dream (1982), Hamlet (1983), and The Merchant of Venice (1987). The SABC has also televised two stage productions by performing arts councils; these are Romeo en Juliet (1982) and The Winter's Tale (1988). The approach I have taken is a cultural materialist one. The television productions are analysed within the context of the SABC as a social, political and cultural institution, whose policies and practices are in turn shaped by the wider national political, economic and social context. The cultural role of the SABC is a dominant one, not least because of its monopoly over South African broadcasting until 1986. Its perception of its role and function is based on the passive "mirror" theory of media communication whereby "reality" is simply reflected within the operations and by the products of radio and television. In contrast, my approach to broadcast media incorporates the view that a broadcasting institution has a mutually active relationship with the community it addresses itself to, that this relationship undergoes change through historical development and that its products engage with their audience as it engages with them; they are as much informed as informing. In exploring the conditions of production of the SABC's television Shakespeares, I have undertaken to interview as many people as possible involved in their production. Analysis of their approach to the production of Shakespearean drama in South Africa combined with (semiotic) analysis of the message of production leads to an interpretation of the ideological reference of these productions. I conclude that the eight television productions of Shakespeare (separately and together) reinforce the traditional idealist attitudes towards Shakespeare instilled by critical orthodoxy. To a large extent, these attitudes are maintained by the educational, theatrical, and popular cultural background which produces the "Shakespeare myth" in South Africa.
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Lazenby, Nicola. "Afterlives: resurrecting the South African border war." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12031.
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Includes abstract.<br>[W]hile the image of the SADF as a heinous perpetrator of Apartheid violence is undeniable, it is being complicated by the emergence of a range of recent cultural productions. Using Jacqui Thompson’s collection of SADF memoirs, An Unpopular War: From Afkak to Bosbefok (2006), and the revival of Anthony Akerman’s play, Somewhere on the Border (2012), this thesis explores how these cultural productions assert an alternative, individual, and humanised rendering of the SADF soldiers who experienced the Border War. The attempt to render these soldiers in an alternative light signals an anxiety regarding the way the SADF is remembered in contemporary South Africa. This anxiety resonates with broader issues of the role of “victimhood” in South Africa’s national identity in the aftermath of Apartheid.
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Ocita, James. "Diasporic imaginaries : memory and negotiation of belonging in East African and South African Indian narratives." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/80354.
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Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2013.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation explores selected Indian narratives that emerge in South Africa and East Africa between 1960 and 2010, focusing on representations of migrations from the late 19th century, with the entrenchment of mercantile capitalism, to the early 21st century entry of immigrants into the metropolises of Europe, the US and Canada as part of the post-1960s upsurge in global migrations. The (post-)colonial and imperial sites that these narratives straddle re-echo Vijay Mishra‘s reading of Indian diasporic narratives as two autonomous archives designated by the terms, "old" and "new" diasporas. The study underscores the role of memory both in quests for legitimation and in making sense of Indian marginality in diasporic sites across the continent and in the global north, drawing together South Asia, Africa and the global north as continuous fields of analysis.
Categorising the narratives from the two locations in their order of emergence, I explore how Ansuyah R. Singh‘s Behold the Earth Mourns (1960) and Bahadur Tejani‘s Day After Tomorrow (1971), as the first novels in English to be published by a South African and an East African writer of Indian descent, respectively, grapple with questions of citizenship and legitimation. I categorise subsequent narratives from South Africa into those that emerge during apartheid, namely, Ahmed Essop‘s The Hajji and Other Stories (1978), Agnes Sam‘s Jesus is Indian and Other Stories (1989) and K. Goonam‘s Coolie Doctor: An Autobiography by Dr Goonam (1991); and in the post-apartheid period, including here Imraan Coovadia‘s The Wedding (2001) and Aziz Hassim‘s The Lotus People (2002) and Ronnie Govender‘s Song of the Atman (2006). I explore how narratives under the former category represent tensions between apartheid state – that aimed to reveal and entrench internal divisions within its borders as part of its technology of rule – and the resultant anti-apartheid nationalism that coheres around a unifying ―black‖ identity, drawing attention to how the texts complicate both apartheid and anti-apartheid strategies by simultaneously suggesting and bridging differences or divisions. Post-apartheid narratives, in contrast to the homogenisation of "blackness", celebrate ethnic self-assertion, foregrounding cultural authentication in response to the post-apartheid "rainbow-nation" project.
Similarly, I explore subsequent East African narratives under two categories. In the first category I include Peter Nazareth‘s In a Brown Mantle (1972) and M.G. Vassanji‘s The Gunny Sack (1989) as two novels that imagine Asians‘ colonial experience and their entry into the post-independence dispensation, focusing on how this transition complicates notions of home and national belonging. In the second category, I explore Jameela Siddiqi‘s The Feast of the Nine Virgins (1995), Yasmin Alibhai-Brown‘s No Place Like Home (1996) and Shailja Patel‘s Migritude (2010) as post-1990 narratives that grapple with political backlashes that engender migrations and relocations of Asian subjects from East Africa to imperial metropolises. As part of the recognition of the totalising and oppressive capacities of culture, the three authors, writing from both within and without Indianness, invite the diaspora to take stock of its role in the fermentation of political backlashes against its presence in East Africa.<br>AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie studie fokus op geselekteerde narratiewe deur skrywers van Indiër-oorsprong wat tussen 1960 en 2010 in Suid-Afrika en Oos-Afrika ontstaan om uitbeeldings van migrerings en verskuiwings vanaf die einde van die 19e eeu, ná die vestiging van handelskapitalisme, immigrasie in die vroeë 21e eeu na die groot stede van Europa, die VS en Kanada, te ondersoek, met die oog op navorsing na die toename in globale migrasies. Die (post-)koloniale en imperial liggings wat in hierdie narratiewe oorvleuel, beam Vijay Mishra se lesing van diasporiese Indiese narratiewe as twee outonome argiewe wat deur die terme "ou" en "nuwe" diasporas aangedui word. Hierdie proefskrif bestudeer die manier waarop herinneringe benut word, nie alleen in die soeke na legitimisering en burgerskap nie, maar ook om tot 'n beter begrip te kom van die omstandighede wat Asiërs na die imperiale wêreldstede loods.
Ek kategoriseer die twee narratiewe volgens die twee lokale en in die volgorde waarin hulle verskyn het en bestudeer Ansuyah R Singh se Behold the Earth Mourns (1960) en Bahadur Tejani se Day After Tomorrow (1971) as die eerste roman wat deur 'n Suid-Afrikaanse en 'n Oos-Afrikaanse skrywe van Indiese herkoms in Engels gepubliseer is, en die wyse waarop hulle onderskeidelik die kwessies van burgerskap en legitimisasie benader. In daaropvolgende verhale van Suid-Afrika, onderskei ek tussen narratiewe at hul onstaan in die apartheidsjare gehad het, naamlik The Hajji and Other Stories deur Ahmed Essop, Jesus is Indian and Other Stories (1989) deur Agnes Sam en Coolie Doctor: An Autobiography by Dr. Goonam deur K. Goonam; uit die post-apartheid era kom The Wedding (2001) deur Imraan Covadia en The Lotus People (2002) deur Aziz Hassim, asook Song of the Atman (2006) deur Ronnie Govender. Ek kyk hoe die verhale in die eerste kategorie spanning beskryf tussen die apartheidstaat — en die gevolglike anti-apartheidnasionalisme in 'n eenheidskeppende "swart" identiteit — om die aandag te vestig op die wyse waarop die tekste sowel apartheid- as anti-apartheid strategieë kompliseer deur tegelykertyd versoeningsmoontlikhede en verdeelheid uit te beeld. Post-apartheid verhale, daarenteen, loof eerder etniese selfbemagtiging met die klem op kulturele outentisiteit in reaksie op die post-apartheid bevordering van 'n "reënboognasie", as om 'n homogene "swartheid" voor te staan.
Op dieselfde manier bestudeer ek die daaropvolgende Oos-Afrikaanse verhale onder twee kategorieë. In die eerste kategorie sluit ek In an Brown Mantle (1972) deur Peter Nazareth en The Gunny Sack (1989) deur M.G. Vassanjiin, as twee romans wat Asiërs se koloniale geskiedenis en hul toetrede tot die post-onafhanklikheid bedeling uitbeeld (verbeeld) (imagine), met die klem op die wyse waarop hierdie oorgang begrippe van samehorigheid kompliseer. In die tweede kategorie kyk ek na The Feast of the Nine Virgins (1995) deur Jameela Siddiqi, No Place Like Home (1996) deur Yasmin Alibhai en Migritude (2010) deur Shaila Patel as voorbeelde van post-1990 verhale wat probleme met die politieke teenreaksies en verskuiwings van Asiër-onderdane vanuit Oos-Afrika na wêreldstede aanspreek. As deel van die erkenning van die totaliserende en onderdrukkende kapasiteit van kultuur, vra die drie skrywers – as Indiërs en as wêreldburgers – die diaspora om sy rol in die opstook van politieke teenreaksie teen sy teenwoordigheid in Oos-Afrika onder oënskou te neem.
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Osaghae, Esosa O. "Mythic reconstruction : a study of Australian Aboriginal and African literatures /." Access via Murdoch University Digital Theses Project, 2006. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20070928.143608.
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Potgieter, Carla. "Reading rubbish: pre-apartheid to post-apartheid South African kitsch." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1782.
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Thesis (MA (English Studies)--University of Stellenbosch, 2009.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis is concerned with kitsch as cultural phenomena, which it will approach as a
specific ‘aspect’, or ‘product’ of modernity. In doing so, this thesis aims to interrogate the
notion of modernity, through an analysis of kitsch. In the first place, modernity can be
thought as a collection of progressive material changes, usually associated with the onset
of the industrial revolution. In this sense, it is easy to establish kitsch as a typical product
of modernity, as the latter literally provided the objective conditions of possibility for the
production of cheap, easily reproducible industrial goods, with which kitsch is often
associated. In the second place, more than a set of material changes however, modernity
also entailed a concomitant series of cultural values, the rational, scientific worldview
associated with the onset of the Enlightenment. The thesis will therefore also consider
how kitsch can be regarded as a direct expression of these values, in as much as the
characteristic falseness and conformity of kitsch might be seen as a typical product of this
rational, utilitarian worldview. In the third place, modernity also refers to the combined
effect of these material conditions and cultural values. Kitsch will be considered, then,
also in relation to this ‘life-world’. Importantly, the thesis seeks to demonstrate how the
inherent contradictions of modernity become particularly apparent in kitsch.
The connection between colonialism and the Enlightenment is nothing new. Indeed, the
colonial project was driven by the notion that the West was responsible for the
“modernization” and “upliftment” of the rest of the world. However, the idea of
modernity as a universal, ideologically neutral concept is deeply problematic. Indeed, this
can also be considered as one of the contradictions inherent in modernity. By looking at
South African kitsch, this thesis will examine the possibility that, as a typical product of
modernity produced in a local context, it can reveal much about the manifestations or
‘trajectory’ of modernity outside the metropolitan centres, where it is usually located.
This will be explored by examining, on the one hand, the local ‘trajectory’ of the
discourse of modernity, and, secondly, to the place assigned to people within the creation
of these local modernities<br>AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die onderwerp van hierdie tesis is kitsch as ’n kulturele verskynsel, wat dit as volg
benader. Eerstens word daar gevra of dit moontlik is om kitsch as een van die mees
tipiese ‘produkte’ van moderniteit te beskou. Die bogenoemde vraagstelling maak dit dus
moontlik om moderniteit te ondersoek deur ‘n analise van kitsch. In hierdie tesis, word
moderniteit as volg benader: ten eerste, die materiële veranderings in terme van die
produksie proses wat gewoonlik met die industriële revolusie geassosieer word; en
tweedens, die rasionele, wetenskaplike, kommersiële en utilitêre lewensbeskouing ingelei
deur die ‘Verligting’ (of sogenaamde Enlightenment) in die sewentiende eeu. Meer as net
’n versameling fisiese en filosofiese omwentelings, verwys moderniteit egter ook ten
derdens na die gekombineerde impak van die bogenoemde in terme van die effek van
tegnologie op kultuur, en hoe dit die menslike ‘leefwêreld’ betekenisvol beïnvloed en
vervorm.
Die bogenoemde skep dus ‘n raamwerk waarbinne kitsch benader kan word. Ten eerste is
dit maklik om ‘n verband tussen kitsch en tegnologiese ontwikkelinge, wat dit moontlik
maak om vinnige reproduksies van ‘n lae gehalte te vervaardig, te trek. Maar soos beskou
vanuit ‘n meer filosofiese perspektief, kan die valsheid en patroonmatigheid van kitsch
teruggetrek word na rasioneel utilitaristies wêreldbeskouing van die ‘Verligting’, wat
deur die neig na abstrakte, universele waarhede, dikwels vervlakking lei en ook
spesifieke etiese gevolge het. Derdens, wanneer daar na die impak van modernisasie op
die leefwêreld gekyk word, sal faktore soos die opkoms van die middelklas en
sekularisasie ook in ag geneem word. Deur die bogenoemde te ondersoek, sal daar dan
ook gedemonstreer word dat die teenstrydighede wat noodwendig deel vorm van die
konsep van moderniteit self, in kitsch duidelik sigbaar word, juis in die manier hoe kitsch
hierdie teenstrydighede probeer verberg.
Díe drie areas dan in ag geneem, is dit verder nodig om ‘n vierde definisie in te sluit om
die ondersoek van moderniteit, soos dit in hierdie tesis benader word, te verdiep. Die idee
dat kolonialisme en moderniteit ten diepste verbind is, is niks nuuts nie. Die gedagte dat
die Weste juis die onontwikkelde kolonies moes “ophef” en “moderniseer” was
inderdaad dikwels die ideologiese beweegrede vir die koloniale projek. Maar by nadere
ondersoek blyk dit onwaarskynlik dat moderniteit bloot ‘n ideologies neutrale konsep is,
wat oral eenvormige resultate sou behaal. Inderdaad, laasgenoemde kan ook as een van
hierdie sogenaamde “teenstrydighede” inherent tot die konsep van moderniteit beskou
word. Dus, deur na kitsch te kyk wat spesifiek in ‘n Suid-Afrikaanse konteks ontstaan
het, wil hierdie tesis ook die moontlik ondersoek dat plaaslike kitsch (as tipiese produk
van moderniteit) ons iets meer kan vertel oor die spesifieke verloop en gevolge van
hierdie sogenaamde “projek van moderniteit” binne ‘n plaaslike konteks.
Dit sal gedoen word deur die volgende twee vraagstukke aan te spreek, aan die hand van
plaaslike vorme van kitsch. Eerstens sal daar aandag aan die spesifieke “verloop” en
manifestasies van die diskoers van moderniteit in ‘n plaaslike konteks ondersoek word.
Tweedens, gaan hierdie tesis ook aandag gee aan die spesifieke plek wat aan verskillende
groepe mense binne hierdie plaaslike vorme van moderniteit toegeken word. So ‘n
ondersoek sal dan op die plaaslike manifestasies van moderniteit konsentreer, om die
aanname dat moderniteit oral eenvormige resultate en vooruitgang sou bereik, ongeldig te
verklaar. Die idee van “moderniteit” as universele en eenvormige konsep breek dus
letterlik uit mekaar, soos dit met die idee van geografiese spesifieke weergawes van
moderniteit gekonfronteer word.
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Nabutanyi, Edgar Fred. "Representations of troubled childhoods in selected post-1990 African fiction in English." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/79874.
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Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2013.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The study explores representations of troubled childhoods in post-1990 African narratives. Defining troubled childhoods as the experiences of children exposed to different forms of violations including physical, psychological, sexual and emotional abuse, the study reflects on depictions of such experiences in a selection of contemporary African fictional texts in English. The study‘s central thesis is that, while particular authors‘ deployment of affective writing techniques offers implicit analysis of troubled childhoods, the knowledge about this reality that such literary texts produce and place in the public sphere resonates with readers because of the narrative textures that both make knowledge concerning such childhoods accessible and create a sense of the urgent plight of such children. They render troubled childhoods grieveable. The study delineates three attributes of the selected texts that explain why such fictions can be considered significant from both social and aesthetic perspectives: namely, their foregrounding of intertwined vectors of violation and/or vulnerability; their skilful use of multi-layered narrative voices and their creation of specific posttraumatic damage and survival tropes.
The four main thesis chapters are organised thematically rather than conceptually or theoretically, because representations of troubled childhoods are contextually and experientially entangled. Using Maria Pia Lara‘s notion of ―illocutionary force‖ and specific aspects of trauma and affect theory, the study focuses centrally on how the units of narration construct persuasive and convincing depictions of troubled childhoods while using fiction to convene platforms for reflection on the phenomena of child victims of war violence, abusive parenting, sexual predation and sexual violation.<br>AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die studie ondersoek voorstellings van gekwelde kinder-ervaringswêrelde in post-1990 narratiewe deur skrywers van Afrika. Gekwelde kinder-ervaringswêrelde word gedefinieer as die ondervindinge van kinders wat blootgestel is aan verskillende vorms van skending, insluitend fisiese, psigologiese, seksuele en emosionele skending. Met hierdie definisie in gedagte reflekteer die studie op gelselekteerde uitbeeldings van sulke ervarings in hedendaagse Afrika-fiksie in Engels. Die studie se sentrale tesis is dat, terwyl sekere outeurs se ontplooiïng van affektiewe skryftegnieke implisiete analise van gekwelde kinder-ervaringswêrelde bied, resoneer die kennis oor hierdie realiteit wat sulke literêre tekste oplewer en in die publieke sfeer plaas met die leespubliek omdat die struktuur van die narratiewe die verskynsel van kwellende kinder-ervarings onthul en bewustheid van die dringende aard van die verskynsel bemoontlik. Sulke kinderlewens word op hierdie manier treurbaar [grievable] gemaak. Die studie delinieer drie eienskappe van die gekose tekste wat verduidelik waarom hierdie tekste vanuit beide sosiale en estetiese perspektiewe as beduidend beskou kan word, naamlik die verstrengelde vektors van verkragting en kwesbaarheid wat hulle op die voorgrond bring, hul bekwame gebruik van veellagige narratiewe stemme en hul skepping van spesifieke posttraumatiese skade- en oorlewingstrope.
Die vier middelste tesis-hoofstukke is tematies in plaas van konsepsueel of teoreties georganiseer, omdat voorstellings van gekwelde kinder-ervaringswêrelde kontekstueel- en ervaringsverstrik is. Met die gebruik van Maria Pia Lara se begrip van illocutionary force en spesifieke aspekte van trauma- en inwerkingsteorie fokus die studie hoofsaaklik op hoe die narratiewe eenhede oorhalende en oortuigende afbeeldings van gekwelde kinder-ervaringswêrelde konstrueer terwyl hulle fiksie gebruik om platforms vir refleksie op die fenomeen van kinderslagoffers van oorlogsgeweld, misbruikende ouerskap en seksuele- predasie en verkragting byeen te bring.
Books on the topic "African literature (english), bibliography"
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Lockot, Hans Wilhelm. Bibliographia Aethiopica II: The Horn of Africa in English literature. Harrassowitz, 1998.
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A-Z of African writers: A guide to modern African writing in English. Shuter, 2009.
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Africana, Strange Library of. Southern African material in anthologies of English literature in the Strange Library of Africana: An index. City of Johannesburg, Public Library, 1988.
Find full textBook chapters on the topic "African literature (english), bibliography"
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Krishnan, Madhu. "Introduction: Writing Africa in a Global Marketplace." In Contemporary African Literature in English. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137378330_1.
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Krishnan, Madhu. "Ethics, Conflict and Re(-)presentation." In Contemporary African Literature in English. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137378330_2.
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Krishnan, Madhu. "Race, Class and Performativity." In Contemporary African Literature in English. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137378330_3.
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Krishnan, Madhu. "Gender and Representing the Unrepresentable." In Contemporary African Literature in English. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137378330_4.
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Krishnan, Madhu. "Mythopoetics and Cultural Re-Creation." In Contemporary African Literature in English. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137378330_5.
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Krishnan, Madhu. "Global African Literature: Strategies of Address and Cultural Constraints." In Contemporary African Literature in English. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137378330_6.
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Krishnan, Madhu. "Conclusion: Writing Africa’s Futures?" In Contemporary African Literature in English. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137378330_7.
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Zabus, Chantal. "4.5.1. Postmodernism in African Literature in English." In Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/chlel.xi.59zab.
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Nintai, Moses Nunyi. "Translating african literature from french into english." In Benjamins Translation Library. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/btl.5.08nin.
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Michieka, Martha. "My English, My Literature: Owning Our African Englishes and Literatures." In African Histories and Modernities. Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50797-8_4.
Full textConference papers on the topic "African literature (english), bibliography"
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Beiyi, Sun. "Research on African American Vernacular English --in the film “Crash”." In 6th Annual International Conference on Language, Literature and Linguistics (L3 2017). Global Science & Technology Forum (GSTF), 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5176/2251-3566_l317.72.
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Wang, Yan, and Xiaolan Lei. "A Study of African American Vernacular English of Anti-language from the Perspective of Externality of Language." In 6th Annual International Conference on Language, Literature and Linguistics (L3 2017). Global Science & Technology Forum (GSTF), 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5176/2251-3566_l317.110.
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Jennings, John M. Modern African, Asian, Latin American, and Middle Eastern Military History: A Bibliography of English-Language Books and Articles Published From 1960-2013. Defense Technical Information Center, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada597440.
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Rahmé, Marianne, and Alex Walsh. Corruption Challenges and Responses in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Institute of Development Studies, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/k4d.2022.093.
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The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) consistently scores in the lowest rungs of global indexes on corruption, integrity and wider governance standards. Indeed, corruption of different sorts pervades public and corporate life, with strong ramifications for human development. Although the DRC is one of the richest countries in the world in terms of natural resources, its people are among the globe’s poorest.Corruption in the extractive industries (minerals and oil) is particularly problematic in terms of scale and its centrality to a political economy that maintains elites and preserves the highly inequitable outcomes for the majority. The politico-economic elites of the DRC, such as former President Joseph Kabila, are reportedly significant perpetrators but multinationals seeking valuable minerals or offering financial services are also allegedly deeply involved. Corruption is therefore a problem with national and international roots.Despite national and international initiatives, levels of corruption have proven very stubborn for at least the last 20 years, for various reasons. It is a structural and not just a legal issue. It is deeply entrenched in the country’s political economy and is driven both by domestic clientelism and the fact that multinationals buy into corrupt deals. This rapid review therefore seeks to find out the Corruption challenges and responses in the Democratic Republic of Congo.Grand level corruption shades down into the meso-level, where for instance, mineral laden trucks are systematically under-weighted with the collusion of state officials. With severe shortfalls in public funding, certain public services, such as education, are supported by informal payments. Other instances of petty corruption facilitate daily access to goods and services. At this level, there are arguments against counting such practices as forms of corruption and instead as necessary survival practices.To address the challenge of corruption, the DRC is equipped with a legal system that is of mixed strengths and an institutional arsenal that has made limited progress. International programming in integrity and anti-corruption represents a significant proportion of support to the DRC but much less than humanitarian and governance sectors. The leading international partners in this regard are the EU, US, UNDP, UK, African Development Bank, Germany and Sweden. These partners conduct integrity programming in general governance issues, as well as in the mineral and forest sectors.The sources used in this rapid review are gender blind and converge on a very negative picture The literature ranges from the academic and practitioner to the journalistic and investigative, and taken as a whole, is of good quality, drawing on different types of evidence including perceptions and qualitative in-country research. The sources are mostly in English with two in French.
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Ensuring Equity and Excellence for English Learners: An Annotated Bibliography for Research, Policy, and Practice. Center for Equity for English Learners, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.15365/ceel.publication.2022.0001.
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Ensuring Equity and Excellence for English Learners: An Annotated Bibliography for Research, Policy, and Practice is comprised of over 350 annotations from both recent and seminal literature (released between 1984–2021) that have significant implications for research, policy, and practice for English learner (EL) linguistic, social, and academic achievement. This annotated bibliography serves as a resource for researchers, policymakers, educators, and advocates who are working for equity and excellence for ELs. The authors provide a comprehensive selection of works focused on theory, research, and practice. The annotations are a result of purposeful searches of 23 topics in empirical and theoretical articles from peer-reviewed journals, books, book chapters, and reports from leading scholars in the field. Among the topics addressed relevant to EL education are broad areas such as: bilingual teacher preparation, teaching and professional development, university and district partnerships, digital learning for ELs, social emotional development, culturally sustaining pedagogy, and English Language Development (ELD) for elementary and secondary level students. The Integrated ELD (content instruction) topic is subcategorized according to specific disciplines including: English language arts, history, mathematics, science, visual & performing arts, and STEM. In order to provide additional information for readers, each annotation includes: (1) the source description (e.g., book, journal article, report), (2) type of source (e.g., empirical, guidance, theoretical), and (3) keywords.