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GéRARD, Albert S., and W. Hanekom. "COMPARATIVE LITERATURE AND AFRICAN LITERATURES." South African Journal of African Languages 5, sup1 (1985): 150–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02572117.1985.10586639.

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Smith,, Robert P., Albert S. Gérard, and C. F. Swanepoel. "Comparative Literature and African Literatures." World Literature Today 69, no. 2 (1995): 415. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40151320.

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Chapman, Michael. "African Literature, African Literatures: Cultural Practice or Art Practice?" Research in African Literatures 34, no. 1 (2003): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/ral.2003.34.1.1.

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CHAPMAN, MICHAEL. "African Literature, African Literatures. Cultural Practice or Art Practice?" Matatu 35, no. 1 (2007): 151–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789401205641_010.

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Chapman, Michael. "African Literature, African Literatures: Cultural Practice or Art Practice?" Research in African Literatures 34, no. 1 (2003): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ral.2003.0004.

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Baderoon, Gabeba. "Southern African Literatures." Comparative Literature Studies 43, no. 1-2 (2006): 171–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/25659510.

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Baderoon, Gabeba. "Southern African Literatures." Comparative Literature Studies 43, no. 1-2 (2006): 171–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/complitstudies.43.1-2.0171.

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McLeod, J. "Southern African Literatures." English 46, no. 185 (1997): 178–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/english/46.185.178.

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Vuuren, Helize van. "Southern African Literatures." Journal of Literary Studies 13, no. 1-2 (1997): 190–209. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02564719708530167.

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Duncan, Derek, and Nelson Mlambo. "Transnational African Literatures." Forum for Modern Language Studies 56, no. 1 (2019): 1–3. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqz056.

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Oliveira, Bruno Ribeiro. "Literatura, Linguagem e Descolonização em Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (Quênia) e Chinua Achebe (Nigéria)." Revista Discente Ofícios de Clio 5, no. 9 (2021): 81. http://dx.doi.org/10.15210/clio.v5i9.19248.

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A história de literatura africana contemporânea está repleta de debates que tratam de sua utilidade frente aos povos de África e a natureza dessa literatura. Através das ideias de dois escritores africanos, Chinua Achebe e Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, este artigo revisita a história das ideias desses autores em respeito à literatura africana e sua linguagem de escrita. Tratamos de perceber como dois autores da mesma geração, porém de locais diferentes, Nigéria e Quênia, respectivamente, pensaram a produção literária e sua função em África no período pós-colonial.Palavras-chave: Chinua Achebe (1930-2013), Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (1938-), Literatura Africana, Línguas Africanas AbstractThe history of African contemporary literature is full of debates that deal with its utility to the many African people and the nature of this literature. Through the ideas of two African writers, Chinua Achebe and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, we revisit the history of the ideas of these authors in relation to African literature and the language in which this literature is written. We try to perceive how authors from the same generation, but from different locals, Nigeria and Kenya, respectively, thought their literary production and its function in Africa in the post-colonial period.Keywords: Chinua Achebe (1930-2013), Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (1938-), African Literatures, African Languages

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Ogene, Mbanefo S., Esther Chikaodi Anyanwu, and Ngini Josephine Ojiaku. "A Comparative Analysis of Racial Discrimination in Claude McKay’s Home to Harlem and Kenneth Kaunda’s Zambia Shall be Free." Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences 8, no. 3 (2017): 343–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.5901/mjss.2017.v8n3p343.

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Abstract One major problem confronting the definition of Comparative Literature is that of the involvement (on the one hand) of more than one literature under comparison and (on the other hand) that of the consideration of the multidimensional aspects of such literature, such as social, historical, linguistic, religious, economic and cultural aspects of divergent societies. This study is guided by the above factors in analyzing the concept of Racial Discrimination in Southern Africa and African American literatures in the sense that the former’s experiences were on African soil, while the latter’s were on the NewFound land (America). The paper observes that racial discrimination was much severe and oppressive without much resistance in America than in Southern Africa where Africans withstood and fought back against an unjust, wicked and oppressive system.

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Serafin, Anne M. "African Literatures: An Overview." English Journal 84, no. 3 (1995): 49. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/820073.

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Gunn, Arthur C. "African American Humanities Literatures." Acquisitions Librarian 9, no. 17-18 (1997): 111–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j101v09n17_09.

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Marzagora, Sara. "Literatures in African languages." Journal of African Cultural Studies 27, no. 1 (2015): 1–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2014.978842.

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BARBER, KARIN. "Literatures in African Languages." African Affairs 86, no. 344 (1987): 432–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a097926.

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Kunene, Daniel P. "Southern African Literatures (review)." Research in African Literatures 37, no. 1 (2006): 135–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ral.2006.0033.

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Baderoon, Gabeba. "Southern African Literatures (review)." Comparative Literature Studies 43, no. 1 (2006): 171–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cls.2006.0022.

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Sithole, Nkosinathi. "Resituating ‘African-language’ literatures in African literature: The case of BW Vilakazi." South African Journal of African Languages 41, no. 2 (2021): 222–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02572117.2021.1948228.

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Coetzee, A. "Oorgangsliteratuurgeskiedenis: die illusie van ’n nasionale Suid-Afrikaanse letterkunde." Literator 18, no. 3 (1997): 41–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v18i3.548.

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Literary history in transition: the illusion of a national South African literatureThe transformation of South Africa from a divided country to a unified democracy has created a discourse of ‘one-nationness’. Although this concept may primarily be a politicial ideal, it also encompasses the diverse fields of culture, language and literature. Literary theoreticians and historians may have to fin d a methodology for describing the various literatures in terms of a 'South African literature if such a unified concept can exist where literatures are produced in eleven languages. These literatures, however, also differ in ways of expression, because the cultures and political contexts from which they originated vary. In considering the deficiencies of a recent literary history, this article attempts to determine whether a methodology based on the Foucauldian concept of the discursive formation may be able to combine the various literatures as statements within the narrative of a nation.

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Opoku-Agyemang, Adwoa A. "Comic Interpreting in African Literatures." ELH 89, no. 3 (2022): 757–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/elh.2022.0026.

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Julien, Eileen, and Bernth Lindfors. "Research Priorities in African Literatures." World Literature Today 60, no. 1 (1986): 164. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40141385.

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Algoo-Baksh, Stella, Douglas Killam, and Ruth Rowe. "The Companion to African Literatures." Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines 35, no. 1 (2001): 197. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/486369.

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Mbabuike, Michael C., Douglas Killam, and Ruth Rowe. "The Companion to African Literatures." African Studies Review 43, no. 3 (2000): 152. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/525077.

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Glorie, Ingrid. "Southern African Literatures (Michael Chapman)." Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 41, no. 1 (2018): 182–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2309-9070/tvl.v.41i1.4968.

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Chrisman, Laura. "Historicising African and Caribbean literatures." Postcolonial Studies 10, no. 3 (2007): 321–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13688790701488205.

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Hawkins, Peter. "The Companion to African Literatures." African Affairs 100, no. 398 (2001): 167–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/afraf/100.398.167.

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Raji, Wumi. "Thresholds: Anglophone African Literatures (review)." Research in African Literatures 33, no. 4 (2002): 204–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ral.2002.0121.

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Hunter, Linda, Douglas Killam, and Ruth Rowe. "The Companion to African Literatures." International Journal of African Historical Studies 33, no. 3 (2000): 702. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3097455.

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John, Joseph, and Bernth Lindfors. "Comparative Approaches to African Literatures." World Literature Today 69, no. 4 (1995): 849. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40151776.

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Van der Elst, J. "Regional and current problems in South Africa and their impact on literature with remarks on the evaluation of the Afrikaans Novel." Literator 6, no. 1 (1985): 1–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v6i1.893.

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My paper centres round a specific situation and its impact on literature in South Africa with special reference to the modern novel in the Afrikaans language and the literary evaluation of the novel. This does not mean that I exclude references to the other genres, poetry and dram a and to literatures in other languages within the South African context. Many of you might know but to clarify I would like to point out that I refer to Afrikaans as the Germanic language originating from the 17th century Dutch mother tongue of approximately 3 ½ million South Africans.

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Osinubi. "The African Atlantic: West African Literatures and Slavery Studies." Research in African Literatures 47, no. 1 (2016): 149. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/reseafrilite.47.1.149.

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Groenewald, H. C. "Towards a poetics for African language literatures (in South Africa)." South African Journal of African Languages 6, no. 3 (1986): 99–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02572117.1986.10586659.

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Neumann, Birgit, and Gabriele Rippl. "Celebrating Afropolitan Identities? Contemporary African World Literatures in English." Anglia 135, no. 1 (2017): 159–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ang-2017-0010.

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AbstractAgainst the background of today’s debate on Afropolitanism, this article discusses three contemporary African novels as instances of world literatures, focusing on their creative modelling of open, non-Eurocentric worlds in motion. Taking existing research in the field of world literature into account, we argue that the affective and effective uniqueness of world literatures only comes to the fore when considering their distinct power to creatively make worlds. We suggest understanding world literatures in terms of their capacity to create open, polycentric worlds, which enmesh diverse places, multiple temporalities, situated practices and locally grounded experiences into open networks of reciprocal change. In theorizing world literatures as pluralized and multiple, we also try to overcome the privileging of western literature. The final section negotiates how these imaginative worlds interact, intersect and possibly collide with that world which is configured by labelling, marketing and canonizing a specific text as ‘world literature’.

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Nemoianu, Virgil. "Southern African Literatures (review)." Comparatist 21, no. 1 (1997): 181–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/com.1997.0013.

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Ogede, Ode. "The Companion to African Literatures (review)." Research in African Literatures 33, no. 1 (2002): 189–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ral.2002.0031.

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Zimbler, Jarad, and Rachel Bower. "On the Making of African Literatures." Cambridge Quarterly 49, no. 3 (2020): 193–211. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/camqtly/bfaa020.

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Irele, Francis Abiola. "Second Language Literatures. An African Perspective." Anglophonia/Caliban 7, no. 1 (2000): 7–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.3406/calib.2000.1384.

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Sanni, John Sodiq. "In the Name of God? Religion, Silence and Extortion." Filosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religions 10, no. 1 (2021): 71–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ft.v10i1.5.

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This article critically analyses the role religion (I refer here to Islam and Christianity) has played in promoting silence and extortion in Africa with particular reference to Nigeria. In my philosophical analysis, African and Western literatures will guide my reflection on religion, the role it played in advancing the colonial agenda and its use in today’s African societies. This analysis seeks to present a case for the position that the colonial debris of disempowerment, injustices, manipulation, and extortion are still very much part of African society. They have only assumed new outlooks and language, thus plunging many Africans into silence in the face of what is often presented as sacred and unknown. The desired aim of this article is to present a philosophical critique of religion by comparing it with existing use of religion in Africa, especially Nigeria. Keywords: Religion, Christianity, Extortion, Silence, Nigeria, Injustice

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Robolin, Stéphane. "Black Transnationalism: 20th-Century South African and African American Literatures." Literature Compass 9, no. 1 (2012): 80–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1741-4113.2011.00859.x.

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Oliveira, Adilson Vagner de, Eduarda da Rosa Zanella, Luana Gabriely de Almeida Campos, and Mariana Falcão Heemann. "A FICÇÃO AFRICANA CONTEMPORÂNEA: CONSIDERAÇÕES SOBRE A ESTÉTICA DA NARRATIVA." Revista Prática Docente 3, no. 2 (2018): 418–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.23926/rpd.2526-2149.2018.v3.n2.p418-436.id203.

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Resumo: Este trabalho promove algumas considerações estruturais e temáticas sobre a ficção africana contemporânea. A partir da abordagem comparada, foram analisadas três obras literárias representativas do continente: Um rio chamado tempo, uma casa chamada terra (2003) de Mia Couto, Hibisco Roxo (2011) de Chimamanda Adichie e Lueji: o nascimento de um império (2015) de Pepetela. As análises apontam para algumas questões extremamente importantes para se compreender as literaturas africanas, tais como os conflitos entre a modernidade e a tradição, o papel da mulher diante da religiosidade e o patriarcado e por fim, a releitura da história nacional como mecanismo de construção de identidades.Palavras-chave: Literaturas africanas. Ficção contemporânea. Romance. Abstract: This paper presents some structural and thematic considerations on contemporary African fiction. From the comparative perspective, we analyzed three representative literary works from the continent: A river called time (2003) by Mia Couto, Purple Hibiscus (2011) by Chimamanda Adichie and Lueji: o nascimento de um império (2015) by Pepetela. The analysis demonstrates some issues really important to understand the African literatures, such as the conflicts between modernity and tradition, the role of women in face of religiosity and patriarchy, and finally, the reinterpretation of national history as a mechanism of building identities.Keywords: African literatures. Contemporary fiction. Novel.

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Merolla, D. "Introduction: Orality and technauriture of African literatures." Tydskrif vir letterkunde 51, no. 1 (2014): 80. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/tvl.v51i1.8.

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Desai. "Asian African Literatures: Genealogies in the Making." Research in African Literatures 42, no. 3 (2011): v. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/reseafrilite.42.3.v.

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Toivanen, Anna-Leena. "Afroeuropean peripheral mobilities in francophone African literatures." Journal of Postcolonial Writing 57, no. 3 (2021): 358–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2021.1921960.

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Panofsky, Hans E. "Research Priorities in African Literatures (Book Review)." College & Research Libraries 47, no. 1 (1986): 87–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/crl_47_01_87.

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Lessick-Xiao, Anne E., and Oyekan Owomoyela. "A History of Twentieth-Century African Literatures." African Studies Review 38, no. 1 (1995): 140. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/525490.

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Kurtz, J. Roger, and Gareth Griffiths. "African Literatures in English: East and West." World Literature Today 75, no. 2 (2001): 303. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40156541.

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Nganga, Bernard, and Oyekan Owomoyela. "A History of Twentieth-Century African Literatures." African American Review 30, no. 1 (1996): 136. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3042107.

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Adetunji Osinubi, Taiwo. "Tropicalizing Philip Quaque: On African Atlantic Literatures." Eighteenth Century 58, no. 1 (2017): 115–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ecy.2017.0009.

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Ezeigbo, Akachi. "Endangered Species: African Cultures, Languages and Literatures." Journal of the African Literature Association 3, no. 2 (2009): 48–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21674736.2009.11690105.

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