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Journal articles on the topic "African prose literature"

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Casimir, Komenan. "Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart: A Seminal Novel in African Literature." Studies in Linguistics and Literature 4, no. 3 (June 27, 2020): p55. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/sll.v4n3p55.

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Achebe’s Things Fall Apart is an influential novel in African literature for three reasons. First, it is a novel meant to promote African culture; second, it is a narrative about where things went wrong with Africans; and third, it is a prose text which contributed to Achebe’s worldwide recognition. It contains Achebe’s rejection of the degrading representation of Africans by European writers, and fosters Africa’s traditional values and humanism. The excesses of Igbo customs led the protagonist to flagrant misuse of power. The novel’s scriptural innovations bring fame to Achebe who is considered as the “Asiwaju” (Leader) of African literature, the “founding father of African fiction”, or again the “Eagle on Iroko”.
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Nkechinyere, Eze Mabel, and Nnani Henrietta Nonye. "Prose literature as a Means of Expressing African Culture a Study of Chinua Achebes things Fall Apart." Indonesian Journal of Applied and Industrial Sciences (ESA) 3, no. 1 (January 30, 2024): 67–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.55927/esa.v3i1.7375.

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This study examines prose literature as a means of expressing, African culture as presented in Buchi Emecheta’s “The joys of motherhood and Chinua Achebe’s Things fall apart respectively. The researcher looked at the history of African culture in Nigeria. A number of critical essays in which some of the realities that portray African culture were reviewed. It came to lime light that there is African culture among Africans as opposed to the notion being portrayed to the outside world by the Europeans. The conclusion is that these works, Things fall apart and The joys of motherhood continue to be a demonstration to show that there is an African culture. This is the main outlook of the novels in this research.
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Etyang, Philip, Justus Siboe Makokha, and Oluoch Obura. "Picaresque narrative techniques and popular literature in African prose fiction." Journal of Languages, Linguistics and Literary Studies 2, no. 4 (December 31, 2022): 187–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.57040/jllls.v2i4.341.

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The Picaresque tradition is a mode of writing that began in Spain in the 16th century and flourished in the 17th and 18th centuries throughout the rest of Europe. It is a literary tradition that has continued to influence modern fiction writing to date. The current paper examined the picaresque and popular African literature narrative techniques through conducting an in-depth analysis of the following texts; Kill Me Quick, Mission to Kala, The Angels Die, and A Sport of Nature. To effectively address the task, the study examined narratives and narrative techniques in the prose fiction under study. The paper then deployed the Structural Literary Theory in an effort to decode the intertextuality between the texts. The study established that the texts under study are interconnected through the main characters, especially the picaro/picara. An examination of Gustav Freytag’s narrative structure was conducted and similarities and differences in the narrative structures of the texts under study was observed. The Postcolonial Literary Theory was also consulted where specific strands of the theory as propounded by Vorn Gorp, and Frantz Fanon were blended to furnish the study with the necessary theoretical backbone to exhaustively study picaresque narratives in popular literature. In conclusion, the study established that the Picaresque and Popular Literature writing modes are interconnected through the use plot and main characters. The study also established that the non-linear and episodic plot structures are the most commonly used techniques in picaresque and popular writing modes.
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Aboubakar, Gounougo, and Saran Cissoko. "Prose poétique africaine et philosophie de la création verbale." Elyra, no. 19 (2022): 41–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.21747/21828954/ely19a3.

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The question of mixing genres or generic hybridization does not necessarily arise for African literature whose nature is to be hybrid at the origin. The African creator does not choose to make of the mixture of the kinds, it is the mixture of the kinds which offers itself to him through the total word which it uses. To speak then of poetic prose is to speak of African written literature as a whole. This is the heritage of the first black artists of the emancipatory struggles, among others the negritudians, insofar as they are the manatees who drank from the source of Simal, that is to say here the African orality. This African culture has as its “dogma” this “old principle” of African classical philosophy: “everything is in everything; the unity in the multiple, the multiple in the unity... everything is interaction and mutual influence. This is our law of one universal movement” (Zadi Zaourou 1978: 216). It is to this monistic philosophy of the aesthetics of verbal creation that we will focus in this contribution devoted to African poetic prose. With the help of examples of texts in poetic prose, we will see how, through the poetic andstylistic analyses of the genres that we will apply to these texts, the literarity of the latter derives from the holistic character of the word that founds them.
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Dick, Angela Ngozi. "Adichie’s Commitment to Female Biological Experiences in African Literature." English Linguistics Research 11, no. 2 (August 3, 2022): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/elr.v11n2p1.

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Molara Ogundipe-Leslie (1987) challenged African women writers to be committed about women and their biological experiences in wife repudiation and widowhood in her article entitled “The Female Writer and Her Commitment”. In view of this challenge, this article examined Adichie’s portrayal of female biological experiences in Purple Hibiscus, Half of a Yellow Sun, Americanah, the short story entitled Imitation and The Visit. The theoretical framework used in this article is African Feminism. It is established that in Purple Hibiscus, adolescent sexuality is expressed within the ambience of Igbo socialization in which sexual matters are discrete and respected. The expression of female sexuality in Half of a Yellow Sun is audacious, portraying cohabitation which has no merit in Igbo culture in spite of the ravaging civil war setting. The representation of sexual expression in Americanah through the adolescent peering between Ifemelu and Obinze is too detailed for the emotional health of the Igbo adolescent because it disrupted a legal family. Imitation and The Visit negotiated the African family so that the husband and the wife will complement each other while female sexuality is not compromised. It could be concluded that through her prose fictions, Adichie has responded adequately to Molara Ogundipe- Leslie’s challenge to African female writers. Finally, this article recommends that woman’s biological experiences should be fundamental and respected in romantic and family love relationships.
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Munslow Ong, Jade. "Decolonizing the English Literature GCE A-Level via the South African Ex-Centric." English: Journal of the English Association 70, no. 270 (September 1, 2021): 244–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/english/efab009.

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Abstract In this snapshot article, I outline the background and context for the development of research-led teaching activities aimed at students pursuing the WJEC Eduqas GCE A-Level English Literature qualification. The aims of these activities are threefold: first, to assist students’ learning and preparation for the exam component ‘Unseen Prose’ (worth 10% of the overall qualification); second, to extend the impact of AHRC-funded research on South African literature to 16- to 18-year-old learners; and third, to mobilize the first two aims in support of decolonizing efforts in English Studies.
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Porter, Abioseh Michael. "Post-Civil War Literary Fiction: A Catalyst for Understanding Sierra Leone's Recent Past, Present, and Future." African Conflict & Peacebuilding Review 13, no. 1 (March 2023): 129–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/acp.2023.a900893.

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ABSTRACT: Until very recently, it seemed that a major difference between the literature of Sierra Leone and the literatures of its other West African neighbors was the absence, especially in prose fiction, of a sustained body of work by Sierra Leonean authors. This situation might seem mystifying to scholars of Sierra Leone's social and intellectual history because, after all, that country had played a major and pioneering role in the development and spreading of Western education in West Africa. This fundamental narrative of the inability of Sierra Leone's creative writers to produce high quality literature, in current times, has been seriously challenged by several new authors. This article analyzes the ways in which Sierra Leonean literature has moved from a space in which its earliest writers failed to understand fiction writing as a major outlet to express the dreams, nightmares, hopes and desires of a people to one in which high quality fiction is flourishing. It highlights how the civil war and its dreadful aftermath changed the literary landscape in Sierra Leone in many positive ways.
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Glover-Meni, N. Glover-Meni. "Orality in Ghanaian Newspaper Narratives: An Analysis of Yankah’s Woes of a Kwatriot." Pentvars Business Journal 10, no. 2 (June 30, 2017): 77–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.62868/pbj.v10i2.138.

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The study explores the influence of orality on Ghanaian prose by explicating the verbal art strategies utilized by Yankah (1990) in his newspaper writing, Woes of a Kwatriot, and, by so doing, illustrating how the interaction between literature and journalism help in bringing about a vector of expression that reveals indigenous literary values. Yankah foregrounds tensions in the Ghanaian society using the medium of orality in a newspaper format, showcasing how indigenous literary modes can facilitate and enhance the quality of the journalism prose. In other words, Yankah saw the emergence of experimental writing as crucial in bringing Ghana, at the margin, to the centre of not only literary production but to the global arena where the writer can play a big role in shaping the fortunes of the people. Yankah is making the case that the African writer should not only mimic what obtains in the established Western canons. Rather, he or she must consciously facilitate the creation of new forms, an example being combining African elements with the Western long form such as lodging orality in journalism prose in a bid to mediate “the forces of modernity”.
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Obiajulu, Eziechine Augustine. "Protest and Conflict in African Literature: The Nigerian Experience Expressed in Selected Plays by Zulu Sofola and Tess Onwueme." CLAREP Journal of English and Linguistics 4 (October 10, 2022): 199–215. http://dx.doi.org/10.56907/g2t5zr7s.

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The prevailing social situation in a society at any given time determines the temperament of its literature. African literature of the post–independence period is generally reactive in temperament. This emergent trend in African literature is as a result of the prevailing economic, social and political situations in most African nations. In Nigerian society, for instance, there is inequality, injustice, unemployment, hunger, marginalization, environmental degradation, corruption, political instability, socio-economic ills and religious violence. Obviously, these suffocating experiences are bound to generate protests and conflicts arising from people who are dissatisfied. Drama and prose have been mostly deployed to confront these unjust and inhuman situations. However, this paper focuses mainly on the selected plays authored by Zulu Sofola and Tess Onwueme. The study is basically a survey of Zulu Sofola and Tess Onwueme’s selected plays which explore the thematic concern of this paper. Content analysis of the plays reveals that protest can be used to resist and protest all oppressive structures in society.
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Gadomska, Katarzyna. "Between the real and the supernatural, between Africa and the West: Anna Swoboda on the trail of Ken Bugul." Romanica Cracoviensia 22, no. 3 (November 30, 2022): 317–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.4467/20843917rc.22.029.16194.

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The article discusses the main premises of Anna Swoboda’s monograph La Prose de Ken Bugul : entre le réel et le surnaturel. Swoboda assumes that the key to deciphering the characteristics of Ken Bugul’s prose is the interpenetration of the two dimensions present in the work of this contemporary Senegalese writer: the real and the supernatural. The book analyzes the fantastic, marvelous and uncanny elements that constitute the supernatural aspect of Bugul’s hybrid prose, as well as examines the fragmentation and multifaceted identity of the autofictional female protagonist (in the part devoted to the real elements). The eclectic methodology combines Western and African research on non-mimetic fiction with postcolonial and feminist theories.
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Mtuze, Peter Tshobiso. "A feminist critique of the image of woman in the prose works of selected Xhosa writers (1909 - 1980)." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/23636.

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The study examines, from a feminist point of view, the stereotypic image of woman in Xhosa prose fiction from pre-literate times to the era of written literature (1909 - 1980). Attaching feminist critical theory to conventional literary characterisation gives this pioneering study a human dime,n sion that is bound to rejuvenate traditional critical appredation and highlight the tremendous power of art to reflect or parallel real-life experiences. Consequently, the study transcends the confines of traditional literary criticism. It throws interdisciplinary light on the African feminist dilemma over the past 70 years while focusing on gender stereotyping as a characterisation technique. Chapter 1 clearly demarcates the scope of study and the critical position adopted, while chapter 2 traces stereotypes back to Xhosa folk-tales. In this way, an interesting link or parallel in stereotyping between oral and written literature is highlighted. It is worth pointing out that Chapter 3 is significant in that no women writers' works produced in the first and the second decades have survived. The male writers of the period describe women in strict stereotypic fashion, without fear of contradiction, from Woman as Eve to Woman as Witch, among other archetypal images. The female stereotypic image in the third and the fourth decades, the role of the first two female novelists and the early seeds of female. resistance to male domination, are discussed. in Chapter 4 while Chapter 5 highlights the depiction of female characters by male and female prose writers in the Fifties, culminating in Mzamane's exposure of glaring anti-female social norms and practices. In Chapter 6 the spotlight is cast on the woman of the Sixties and the rise of active resistance to male dominance. Some contemporary women, as pointed out in Chapter 7, have crossed the Rubicon in diverse ways. They are assertive, independent, proactive and relentlessly opposed to male dominance. Chapter 8 sums up the main points in relation to the Xhosa woman's attitude towards Western feminism: while many Xhosa women feel justifiably unhappy about male dominance, they refuse to let their frustrations affect their unity with men in the greater struggle against racism. Although the study concludes on an anti-climactic note for Western feminists, it focuses on this crucial and unique distinction between Western and black feminism.
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Wamitila, Kyallo Wadi. "A philosophical labyrinth: tracing two critical motifs in Kezilahabi´s prose works." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2012. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-93522.

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This study aims at studying one of the most important contemporary Kiswahili writers: Euphrase Kezilahabi. In a way this paper can be seen as a continuation of my earlier articles on the same writer. It is definitely different from the other ones though a certain thread links them: the interest in Kezilahabi`s philosophy. In this paper my interest is with two main motifs namely contemptus mundi and carpe diem. Contemptus mundi is a Latin expression for contemptible world, world as a bad place and one that is perceived contemptuously. I intend to explore the said motifs in Kezilahabi\'s prose works: Rosa Mistika, Kichwamaji, Gamba la Nyoka, Dunia Uwanja wa Fujo, Nagana and Mzingile. The latter two works are slightly short, lacking the novel length of the other four works. I do not, however, want to entangle myself in the polemics of genre as to what a novel or novella is. I will, however, regard the two as novellas at least by the virtue of their length.
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Traoré, Flavia Aiello. "Investigating topics and style in Vuta N`Kuvute by Shafi Adam Shafi." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2012. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-91363.

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In the last decades many literary critics have appraised the works of Zanzibarian writers; referring to the prose of Mohamed Suleiman Mohamed, Said Ahmed Mohamed and Shafi Adam Shafi, M M. Mulokozi wrote in 1985: \"The most significant, and certainly most spectacular, development in the Swahili fiction of the Seventies and Eighties has been the emergence of Zanzibar as the producer of the best Swahili fiction to date, and the apparent torch bearer for the Kiswahili novel of the near future\" (Arnold 1985: 174). The same enthusiasm was shared by R. Ohly who, confronting the novels written by Zanzibarian writers and those by Tanzanian and Kenyan writers in a time span going from 1975 to 1981, has defined the Zanzibarian prose a challenge to the artistic competence of other Swahili writers (cf. Ohly 1990). Although I found the comparative pattern used by Ohly debatable, having concentrated for the up-country literary production only on popular short novels - to be better evaluated not following negative, contrastive cliches but within the context of that particular trend -, obscuring moreover other talented writers like Euphrase Kezilahabi or Claude Mung`ong`o, his criticism has nevertheless the merit of having highlighted the main qualities of Zanzibarian novels, namely a deep interest for historical and social matters, along with an extremely rich and colourful language and a serious concern for stylistic features. These attributes of Zanzibarian literary style fit very well to the last novel by Shafi Adam Shafi, Vuta n`kuvute, published in 1999; in the following pages my aim is to explore the way the author of this work artistically manipulates themes, literary suggestions and stylistic devices, re-elaborating thus the experience of Kiswahili and Zanzibarian prose in a creative way.
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Huguley, Piper Gian. "Why Tell the Truth When a Lie Will Do?: Re-Creations and Resistance in the Self-Authored Life Writing of Five American Women Fiction Writers." unrestricted, 2006. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-04252006-174728/.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Georgia State University, 2006.
Title from title screen. Audrey Goodman, committee chair; Thomas L. McHaney, Elizabeth West, committee members. Electronic text (253 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed May15, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (243-253).
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Kemp, Anna Francina. "Die onontkombaarheid van die verlede." Diss., Pretoria : [s.n.], 2009. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-02222010-172655.

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Ntuli, Joshua Hlalanempi. "The conception and evolution of characterization in the Zulu novel." Thesis, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10530/381.

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Submitted to the Faculty of Arts in fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the Department of African Languages at the University of Zululand, 1998.
In this research work an attempt is made to clear certain misconceptions and generalizations which prevail amongst certain literary critics, viz that characterization in the Zulu novel is static and should be modelled on the Eurocentric canon. Investigation into this problem shows the opposite. Particular attention is devoted to demonstrating that characterization in the Zulu novel is evolutionary. And it is indeed so. Characterization in the Zulu novel has changed over the changing times under changing circumstances. The study shows that factors such as folktale residual material, traditional beliefs, christianization, urbanization, industrialization, etc. all have in one way or another impacted on the art of characterization in the Zulu novel. For this purpose we have divided the Zulu novel into three different developmental periods. These literary periods are: the period of Zulu narrative which is mostly dominated by folktale material and traditional beliefs. The second period is characterized by traditional beliefs and historical material. This manifests itself mostly in the historical novel. The third period is dominated by the social or psychological novel. Characterization during this period is characterized by such factors as christianisation, acculturation, urbanization, apartheid laws, industrialization which forced people to move to big cities like Johannesburg. During this period social adjustment problems manifest themselves in antisocial, criminal behaviour and maladjustment on the part of the characters who find themselves in this strange environment. It is, however, important to note that these periods are not watertight entities. But research has shown that a progression - retrogression tendency is found amongst the Zulu novel writers. A case in point is the impact of ancentral beliefs which transcends the three periods of the novel investigated. This means one cannot divorce entirely a literature from its past, which is why we accept lyesere's theory that the modern writer is to his indigenous oral tradition trapped as a snail is to its shell. Even in foreign habitat, a snail never leaves its shell behind, (The Journal of Modern African Studies 1975: 107-119). The study shows that characterization in the Zulu novel follows a definite pattern of development. Therefore the Zulu novel is a literature in its own right. The research shows that the present Eurocentric tools of criticism have grown alongside western literacy tradition, but definitely outside the African milieu. It is noted that characterization in the Zulu novel has been, to a very large extent, influenced by the cultural and traditional background of the Zulu people. The study shows that while using general laws of literary criticism scholars must be mindful of the fact that the Zulu novel is a novel in its own right and has peculiar characteristics of its own.
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Makgamatha, P. M. (Phaka Moffat). "The nature of prose narrative in Northern Sotho: from orality to literacy." Thesis, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/27432.

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The basic aim of this study is to investigate the nature of the narrative, concerning itself with the structures inherent in a system of signs which reveals the communicative function of literature. The general aim is to interpret the meaning of the narrative against the cultural background. The study makes a synthesis of formalist and structuralist points of view on the relations between story and discourse. A comparison of the oral and written narratives reveals that the discourse of the latter displays more artistry than that of the former. An examjnation of the problems of theme selection and development in the Northern Sotho prose narrative, from the point of view of African literature, is made. This reveals that the South African censorship laws have caused the emergence of sophisticated writers with a highly developed artistic way of portraying the South African situation sensitively by making it speak for itself. The study also examines some aspects of character in the narrative, analyzing the actions of characters in the story rather than psychological essences about them, and showing how these characters help the reader to understand the narrator's moral vision of the world. A comparison of the narrative techniques in the oral and the written narrative shows that in the former, the narrator is limited by tradition to the actions and the events that can be seen or heard, while the narrator in the latter can even describe what his characters are thinking or feeling. The study finally examines the relationship between symbolism and culture in the Northern Sotho narrative to reveal the general African philosophy in which -life is perceived as a perpetual journey undertaken by the hero from the natural to the non-natural world, whence he returns to the original world after experiencing moral lassitude and frustration. In the conclusion it is observed that both the oral and the written narratives deal with the intricacies of life as series of patterns and developments. The functional nature of the traditional African aesthetics reflected in the narratives prescribes the study of their meaning against the African cultural background.
African Languages
D. Litt. et Phil. (African Languages)
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Griessel, Karin. "Depicting the dispossessed in the 1940s: an analysis of Holmer Johanssen's Die Onterfdes and Peter Abraham's Mine Boy." Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/16706.

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Christison, Grant. "African Jerusalem : the vision of Robert Grendon." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/2172.

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This thesis discovers the spiritual and aesthetic vision of poet-journalist Robert Grendon (c. 1867–1949), a man of Irish-Herero parentage. It situates him in the wider Swedenborgian discourse regarding African ‘regeneration’. While preserving the overall diachronic continuity of a literary biography, it treats his principal thematic preoccupations synchronically. The objective has been to show the imaginative ways in which he employs his rich and diverse religio-philosophical background to account for South Africa’s social problems, to pass judgement upon the principal players, and to point out an alternative path to a brighter future. Chapter 1 looks at Emanuel Swedenborg’s mystical revelations on the heightened spiritual proclivity of the ‘celestial’ African, and the consequences of New Jerusalem’s descent over the heart of Africa, which Swedenborg believed to be taking place, undetected by Europeans, around 1770. It also examines how those pronouncements were received in Europe, America, and—most particularly—in Africa. Chapter 2 examines the circumstances surrounding Grendon’s birth and childhood in what is today Namibia. It takes note of a family tradition that Joseph Grendon married a daughter of Maharero, a prominent Herero chief, and it looks at Robert Grendon’s views on ‘miscegenation’. Chapter 3 deals with Grendon’s schooling at Zonnebloem College, Cape Town. Chapter 4 describes his cultural, sporting, and political activities in Kimberley and Uitenhage in the 1890s, bringing to light his editorship of Coloured South African in 1899. It also considers his conception of ‘progress’. Chapter 5 looks at some early poems, including the domestic verse-drama, ‘Melia and Pietro’ (1897–98). It also contextualizes a single, surviving editorial from Coloured South African. Chapter 6 treats Grendon’s tour de force, the epic poem, Paul Kruger’s Dream (1902), as well as his personal involvement in the South African War, and his spiritualized account of the ‘Struggle for Supremacy’ in South Africa. Chapter 7 relates to Grendon’s fruitful Natal period, 1900–05: his headmastership of the Edendale Training Institute and of Ohlange College, and his editorship of Ilanga’s English columns during the foreign absence of the editor-in-chief, John L. Dube, from February 1904 to May 1905. Chapter 8 analyzes some of the shorter and medium-length poems written in Natal, 1901–04. Chapter 9 is a close examination of the poem, ‘Pro Aliis Damnati’, showing its Swedenborgian basis, and how it dramatizes Swedenborg’s concept of ‘scortatory’ love. Chapter 10 describes Grendon’s early years in Swaziland from 1905. Chapter 11 deals with his period as editor of Abantu-Batho in Johannesburg, 1915–16. Chapter 12 describes his last years in Swaziland, and his relationship with the Swazi royal family.
Thesis (Ph.D.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2007.
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Bregin, Elana. "The identity of difference : a critical study of representations of the Bushmen." Thesis, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/2550.

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More than any other people, the Bushmen - like the Aborigines on the Australian continent - have epitomized the sub-human other in South African historiography. My primary concern in this study will be to interrogate the representations that gave rise to such entrenched notions of Bushman alterity, and the consequences these have had for Bushman lives. Through an assessment of the writings of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century travellers, missionaries, settlers, colonial officials and scholars, I shall examine understandings of ‘otherness’ and ‘difference’, and the ways in which alterity discourse opened up a space for the ensuing colonial policies of genocide and subjugation against the Bushmen. By allowing the Bushman ‘voices’ to talk back - through an exploration of verbal and visual forms of Bushman creative expression - I hope to present a more balanced sense of Bushman ‘identity’, and expose the fundamental intolerance of difference that lies at the heart of alterity discourse. I shall conclude the thesis with a problematization of contemporary trends of representation, an examination of how these often inadvertently continue the process of othering, and a consideration of their repercussions for present-day Bushman lives. Aside from the obvious relevance of such a study to an understanding of both the destructive events and representations of history, and the current traumatic circumstances of Bushman lives, the questions that this thesis raises can be seen to have more far-reaching implications. In a country such as South Africa, with its long history of segregation and discrimination, issues of otherness and difference take on a particularly compelling resonance. It seems crucial - especially at this point in our national progress - to interrogate our historical attitudes towards otherness, and posit more constructive ways of approaching difference, that allow others their distinct identity, without either demonizing or collapsing such difference; or, to phrase it in Homi Bhabha’s question: “How can the human world live its difference? how [sic] can a human being live Other-wise?” (1994:122).
Thesis (M.A.)-University of Natal, Durban, 1998.
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Books on the topic "African prose literature"

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Chukwu, Onyema. The child in African literature: A study of prose narratives. Onitsha, [Nigeria]: West and Solomon Publishing Coy. Ltd., 2006.

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Moolla, Afzal. Struggle, exile & love: Prose and poems. Lenasia: Ahmed Kathrada Foundation, 2020.

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Kan-si. Imagine Africa. New York: Island Position, Pirogue Collective, Gorée Institute, 2011.

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1927-, Long Richard A., and Collier Eugenia W, eds. Afro-American writing: An anthology of prose and poetry. 2nd ed. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1985.

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Harold, Bloom, ed. Black American prose writers: Before the Harlem renaissance. New York: Chelsea House, 1994.

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Harold, Bloom. Black American prose writers of the Harlem renaissance. New York: Chelsea House, 1994.

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Collier, Eugenia W., and Long Richard A. Afro-American writing: An anthology of prose and poetry. 2nd ed. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1985.

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Jaycox, Faith. Ebony angels: A collection of African-American poetry and prose. New York: Crown Trade Paperbacks, 1996.

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Osofisan, Femi. The genre of prose fiction: Two complementary views. Ife: Department of Literature in English, University of Ife, 1986.

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Stout, Renée. Hoodoo you love: Prose, poetry, and art from the Black Rooster Workshop. Washington, D.C: Bootleg Books/Black Rooster Press, 1998.

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Book chapters on the topic "African prose literature"

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Clark, Priscilla P. "West African prose fiction." In Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, 118–30. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1986. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/chlel.vi.12cla.

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Schroeder, Doris, Kate Chatfield, Roger Chennells, Hazel Partington, Joshua Kimani, Gillian Thomson, Joyce Adhiambo Odhiambo, Leana Snyders, and Collin Louw. "Engaged Research: Strengthening Research Teams Through Community Researchers." In Vulnerability Revisited, 97–123. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-57896-0_5.

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AbstractEngaged research, which strengthens research teams through community researchers, offers many opportunities and challenges. From better access to community members who are hard to reach, to the collection of more meaningful and authentic data, and greater trustworthiness of research findings, the benefits for research are manifold. However, research has also shown that community researchers might be overtly biased, only collect superficial data or lack the confidence to probe deeply enough, among other challenges. Simultaneously, the literature on community researchers is heavily biased towards high-income countries, and there is very little to be found on experiences from low-and middle-income countries that goes beyond assistance in obtaining informed consent. This chapter starts to close that gap by presenting a case study involving 12 community researchers from the South African San community. Collecting no personal data and obtaining all research input through community researchers shows that research led by vulnerable groups for vulnerable groups is possible. It is one way of ensuring that the San, and wider research communities, have access to research they can trust.
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"10. Prose." In The Columbia Guide to Central African Literature in English Since 1945, 53–57. Columbia University Press, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.7312/rosc13042-012.

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Barber, Karin. "Literature in Yorùbá: poetry and prose; traveling theater and modern drama." In The Cambridge History of African and Caribbean Literature, 357–78. Cambridge University Press, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/chol9780521832755.020.

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"Scheherazade’s Dilemma: — An Exploration of André Brink’s Prose Oeuvre Published After 2000." In The Changing Face of African Literature / Les nouveaux visages de la littérature africaine, 117–34. Brill | Rodopi, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789042028852_009.

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Maxwell, William J. "Introduction." In F.B. Eyes. Princeton University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691130200.003.0001.

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This introductory chapter first discusses the FBI's surveillance African American writers and imitation of black prose as part of its struggle against African American protest. It argues that unlike nearly every other institution of U.S. literary study, prone to showing interest only during well-promoted black renaissances, the Bureau rarely took its eyes off the latest in African American writing between 1919 and 1972. And during this more-than-fifty-year period, the whole of its Hoover era, it never dismissed this writing as an impractical vogue relevant only to blacks (or to bleeding-heart white “Negrotarians,” for that matter). Relying on dueling public documents of African American literature and FBI literary commentary, the book helps establish their surprising depth of contact between spy-critics and black Bureau writers. An overview of the four parts of the book is also presented.
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Hack, Daniel. "The Citational Soul of Black Folk: W.E.B. Du Bois." In Reaping Something New, 176–204. Princeton University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691196930.003.0007.

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This chapter turns to W. E. B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk and its deployment of nineteenth-century British literature. Du Bois himself tends to attract the adjective “Victorian” as a descriptor—of his intellectual formation, his prose style, his aesthetic, his morality—with greater frequency than virtually any other figure in the African American literary and intellectual tradition. The chapter shows that critics have been too quick to generalize about the presence of nineteenth-century British literature in Souls. They have rarely asked why Du Bois selected the specific authors, texts, and passages he cites or how these citations contribute to and intervene in a tradition of African American citation and intertextuality. Addressing these questions not only nuances our understanding of Du Bois's rhetorical strategy but also leads us to reconsider a seemingly settled question in the scholarship on Souls: the role Du Bois assigns culture in the fight for racial equality.
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Finnegan, Ruth. "Prose Narratives I. Problems and Theories." In Oral Literature in Africa, 307–25. Open Book Publishers, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.11647/obp.0025.12.

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Finnegan, Ruth. "Prose Narratives II. Content and Form." In Oral Literature in Africa, 327–78. Open Book Publishers, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.11647/obp.0025.13.

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Johnson, Charles S. "From “These ‘Colored United States,’ VIII—Illinois: Mecca of the Migrant Mob,” The Messenger 5 (December 1923)." In Roots of the Black Chicago Renaissance, 254–56. University of Illinois Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252043055.003.0015.

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Editors’ Note: In our second literary selection—excerpts from Charles S. Johnson’s 1923 essay “Illinois: Mecca of the Migrant Mob”—the famed sociologist renders a broad-stroke account of consolidation and growth of the Black Metropolis. This essay, like many pieces of historical, sociological, and journalistic writing emanating from Chicago contributed to a literature of fact that was characteristic of early African American literary work in the city. While Johnson’s assertions about the paucity of black intellectual and cultural life are challenged throughout the current volume, equally important to note is the stylistic strategy with which he presents his analysis of “this Colored Chicago—the dream city—city of the dreadful night!” His elegant, high-keyed prose employs metaphor and other literary devices and arrays facts with novelistic selectivity and pacing. In this manner, Johnson’s essay looks ahead to a mutually beneficial interpenetration of fiction and sociological writing that would mark many of the most notable works of the Black Chicago Renaissance....
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Conference papers on the topic "African prose literature"

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Sabrina da sIlva Santos, Alexcia, Rayane Karolliny Porciúncula Duarte, and Maria Juciely Barbosa Calado. "Literatura africana de língua portuguesa: relato de experiência sobre a oficina “a morte como apagamento identitário na prosa lusófona africana”." In Simpósio FBJ 2019. Belo Jardim, Pernambuco: Even3, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.29327/simpfbj2019.226240.

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Onyewuchi, Francis A., Michael A. Adewusi, Peter Okebukola, Tokunbo Odekeye, Olasunkanmi Gbeleyi, and Fred Awaah. "Breaking the Backbone of Difficult Concepts in the New Secondary School Physics Curriculum in Africa." In 28th iSTEAMS Multidisciplinary Research Conference AIUWA The Gambia. Society for Multidisciplinary and Advanced Research Techniques - Creative Research Publishers, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.22624/aims/isteams-2021/v28n3p7.

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The new senior secondary school physics curriculum for Anglophone West African countries came into use in 2015. Since the beginning of its implementation, even though, the performance of the candidates has not been high, yet reported empirical studies on the difficulty level of the content, and specifically the topics or concepts have been scant. Moreover, there have never been any published studies which conducted an in-depth probe into the aspects of the topics students find difficult in physics and science in general, beyond mere cataloguing of such topics, nor have there been any, in which students were qualitatively engaged in making inputs towards the amelioration of the topic difficulty. This is a huge gap in literature which this study determined to fill. The effort is significant to the extent that understanding the areas of difficulties of the topics as perceived by the students is good pointer towards remedy by teachers and stakeholders. The study therefore undertook five missions: (a) to find out the topics in the new physics curriculum that secondary school students find difficult (b) undertake in-depth probe of the specific aspects of the topics for which students have learning difficulty. (c) probe the possible causes of or factors responsible for these difficulties (d) determine if school location, school ownership and students’ gender have impacts on students’ perception of physics topics difficulty; and (e) deriving from students’ views, suggest how physics can be made easy to learn. A sample of 1,105 students was drawn from 21 secondary schools in Nigeria and Ghana. These schools comprised 12 private and nine public schools randomly selected from rural and urban areas. 75% of the schools were urban while about 25% were rural. Randomly selected 10 students and five teachers were interviewed for qualitative data, while all the participants were involved in responding to the questionnaire. From data gathered, five top most difficult topics were refractive index, electromagnetism, radioactivity, curved lenses and sound: production, propagation and modulation. Rich qualitative data unique for this study, was reported. There was marked difference between urban and rural, private and public, but not in gender. Recommendations were made for better teaching and meaningful learning. Keywords: Backbone of difficult topics; meaningful learning of physics
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