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Journal articles on the topic "Epic literature, African"

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Mbele, Joseph L. "Women in the African Epic." Research in African Literatures 37, no. 2 (2006): 61–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/ral.2006.37.2.61.

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Mbele, Joseph. "Women in the African Epic." Research in African Literatures 37, no. 2 (2006): 61–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ral.2006.0051.

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Makaudze, Godwin. "LITERATURE AS CELEBRATION: THE ZULU (EMPEROR SHAKA) AND MANDINGO (SUNDIATA) EPIC." Imbizo 6, no. 1 (2017): 27–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.25159/2078-9785/2781.

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The relationship between literature and society has long been recognised. In light of this, African literature is viewed as partly a celebration and partly an expression of African values. Literature set in the past is to some degree seen as an attempt to unearth, convey and uphold socio-economic, political and religious values of the time. Using the Afrocentricity theory and epic texts, Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali (Niane, 1965) and Emperor Shaka the Great: A Zulu Epic (Kunene, 1979), the article posits that a study of such epic texts indeed offers a glimpse of the people’s philosophy of life and their values.
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Mulokozi, M. M. "The African Epic Controversy. With Reference to the Enanga Epic Tradition of the Bahaya." Fabula 43, no. 1-2 (2002): 4–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/fabl.2002.023.

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Thorpe, Michael, Fa-Digi Sisòkò, and John William Johnson. "The Epic of Son-Jara: A West African Tradition." World Literature Today 61, no. 1 (1987): 145. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40142659.

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Cosentino, Donald, and John William Johnson. "The Epic of Son-Jara: A West African Tradition." African Arts 20, no. 2 (1987): 78. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3336616.

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Adeniyi, Emmanuel. "East African Literature and the Gandasation of Metropolitan Language – Reading from Jennifer Makumbi’s Kintu." Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 58, no. 1 (2021): 86–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/tl.v58i1.8272.

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Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi is, without doubt, one of the finest literary writers to have come out of East Africa. The Ugandan has succeeded in writing herself into global reckoning by telling a completely absorbing and canon-worthy epic. Her creative impulse is compelling, considering her narration of a riveting multi-layered historiography of (B)-Uganda nation in her debut novel, Kintu. With her unique style of story-telling and intelligent use of analepsis and prolepsis to (re)construct spatial and temporal settings of a people’s history, Makumbi succeeds in giving readers an evocative historical text. In narrating the aetiological myth of her people, Makumbi bridges metonymic gaps between two languages – core and marginal. She deliberately attenuates the expressive strength of the English language in Kintu by deploying her traditional Luganda language in the text so as to achieve certain primal goals. The present study seeks to disinter these goals by examining the use of Metonymic Gaps as a postcolonial model to construct indigenous knowledges within a Europhone East African text. The study also mines overall implications of this practice for East African Literature. I argue that, just like her contemporaries from other parts of Africa, Makumbi projects Luganda epistemology to checkmate European linguistic heteronomy on East African literary expression. Her intentionality also revolves around the need to bend the English language and force it to carry the weight of Luganda socio-cultural peculiarities. Consequently, her text becomes a locus of postcolonial disputations where the marginal jostles for supremacy with the core in East African literary landscape.
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Laachir, Karima. "The Literary World of the North African Taghrība." Journal of World Literature 4, no. 2 (2019): 188–214. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/24056480-00402004.

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Abstract The novels by North African novelists Waciny Laredj, Majid Toubia and Abdelrahim Lahbibi that refashioned the traditional Arabic genre of the taghrība inspired by the medieval epic of Taghrība of Banū Hilāl, still a living oral tradition in the region, offer an interesting case study of location in world literature. They circulate both within national (Algerian, Egyptian and Moroccan) literary systems and the pan-Arab literary field while maintaining a distinct aesthetic and political locality. In these novels, the literary life of the North African taghrība takes forms and meanings that are geographically and historically located, and that are shaped by the positionality of the authors. This paper intervenes in the discussion on location in world literature from the perspective of Arabic novelistic traditions by showing that the pan-Arabic literary field itself is far from homogenous but is marked by a diversity of narrative styles and techniques that can be both local/localised and transregional at the same time. Therefore, we need to shift our understanding of world literature beyond macro-models of “world-system” that assume a universally-shared set of literary values and tastes.
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Willemse, Hein. "Insularity and Ambivalence: The Case of the South African Poet P. J. Philander's Epic Poem,Zimbabwe." Research in African Literatures 39, no. 1 (2008): 125–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/ral.2008.39.1.125.

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Dickerman, Leah. "Aaron Douglas and Aspects of Negro Life." October 174 (December 2020): 126–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/octo_a_00411.

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In 1934, Aaron Douglas created an epic four-panel mural series, Aspects of Negro Life (1934), for the branch library on 135th Street in Manhattan, now the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. The panels answered a call, issued by the first major program for federal support of the arts in the United States, to represent “an American scene.” In them, Douglas traced the trajectory of African American history in four stages and across two mass migrations: from Africa into enslavement in America; through Emancipation and Reconstruction; into the modern Jim Crow South; and then northward with the Great Migration to Harlem itself. The narrative Douglas constructed was remarkable in both its historical sweep and as a story of America seen through Black eyes. This essay explores how Douglas's approach to the trenchant and understudied Aspects of Negro Life panels was shaped by rich conversations across a decade-about what it meant to be Black in America, how the “African” in “African-American” was to be understood, and what a distinctly African-American modernism might be-with an interdisciplinary nexus of thinkers, activists, and artists that included W. E. B. Du Bois; a co-founder of the NAACP and co-editor of the Crisis, sociologist Charles S. Johnson; poet-activist James Weldon Johnson; bibliophile Arturo Schomburg; and philosopher-critic Alain Locke. Looking at Douglas's visual narrative in this context offers insight into how parallel practices of archive-building, art making, history writing, and criticism came together not only to shape a vision of America but also to champion a model of Black modernism framed through diaspora.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Epic literature, African"

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Goodman, Jenny. "Roads to take when you think of your country: American epic poems by women." 1997. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9809340.

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This dissertation focuses on American women's responses to the Western epic tradition and, more specifically, to the modern American epic tradition. I examine women poets' strategies of self-legitimation and their transformations of national narratives in this male-centered genre. I argue that the poems in my study do not merely reflect roles historically available to women but actively imagine new possibilities for women as agents in American history and creators of "usable" national pasts. Chapter One discusses the invisibility of women's texts in most scholarship on the American epic and outlines my approach to recovering women's efforts. Chapter Two focuses on Muriel Rukeyser's "The Book of the Dead" (1938). I examine Rukeyser's assertion of her authority as a woman in the making of American cultural traditions and her simultaneous examination of her position as a privileged poet attempting to represent the oppressed. Rukeyser represents women's agency in Popular Front causes by rewriting the male-centered version of the Osiris/Isis myth in Eliot's Waste Land. Chapter Three explores Gwendolyn Brooks' Annie Allen (1949) as a response to African American women's situation during and after World War II. I argue that Brooks' African American female hero should be read not only against the dominant Western heroic tradition but also against African American intellectuals' representations of heroism as a masculine quest for identity involving a journey away from home and family. Revising the notion of woman and domesticity as constraints on the male artist-hero, Brooks depicts her female hero as needing to resist the social script of romance. In Hard Country (1982), Sharon Doubiago, a white author with working-class origins, reveals the connection between America's genocidal history and the denial of all that the culture deems feminine. In Chapter Four, I maintain that Doubiago's strategic adoption of the marginal stance inaugurated in the 1855 "Song of Myself" enables her to write an anti-imperialist epic of the North American continent. Simultaneously, Doubiago resists Whitman's tendency to erase the subjectivities of societal "others." My conclusion discusses Adrienne Rich's move toward imagining a more inclusive epic tradition in her recent work.
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Selepe, Thapelo 1956. "Towards the African theory of literary production : perspectives on the Sosotho novel." Thesis, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/17709.

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Critical studies and creative works in the Sesotho novel have made some of the important contributions in Sesotho literary history in particular, and African literary history in general. However, such contribution has been dictated by a particular history and an ideology. The world-view in literary practice that emerged from that history is the one that tends to divorce literature, literary study and language from society. Consequently, this study identifies this practice as a problem that needs to be addressed. This study argues from this perspective that literature, literary study and language should be re-established as integral parts in a manner that pedagogical practice would translate into positive social practices. To realise this ideal the study approaches the study of the Sesotho novel from the perspective of literary production. The theory of literary production insists that literature is a form of social production. This argument becomes even more pertinent to the study of the novel, which is viewed as having profound elements of realism that mirror society. A consideration of the Sesotho novel as a form of literary production that is linked to other forms of social production immediately leads to the question of the development of the Sesotho novel. The possibilities that are identified include external influence and internal evolution in the development of the Sesotho novel. These possibilities also have a bearing on the study of the Sesotho novel in particular and the study of the African novel in general. In order to pursue the argument to its logical conclusion, the development of the Sesotho novel is divided into three periods: 1900-1930; 1930-1960 and the 1960s- 1990s. Each of these periods demonstrates a particular ideological leaning that is akin to the material conditions of each period. Taking this trend as a pattern in the development of the Sesotho novel, this study advocates an approach that links literature and literary studies to society.<br>African Languages<br>D.Litt. et Phil. (African Languages)
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Harawa, Albert Lloyds Mtungambera. "Modulations of hybridity in Abodunrin's It would take time:." Diss., 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/19997.

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In this study I identify and argue for hybridity as a common feature in four postcolonial texts, namely Femi Abodunrin’s It Would Take Time, Edward Kamau Brathwaite’s Masks, Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Matigari and Mvona’s An Arrow from Maraka. The study advances that when two or more cultures encounter one another hybridity affects the new emergent culture socially, linguistically, historically and politically. Employing Homi Bhabha’s interrelated terms, notably ambivalence, mimicry, liminality, the third space, in-between space and interstitial space —all of which gesture towards the concept of hybridity, the study explains the emergence of corresponding and equally complex identities in the postcolonial world. With a specific reference to Africa, the study establishes that postcolonial discourse is not as transparent because hybridity does not necessarily mean coming up with completely new aspects of Africa but it implies coming up with mixed cultures since different histories and cultures affect each other in order to come up with a new brand. As such the study concludes that hybridity is opposed to cultural purity and the assumed status quo. In this dissertation I therefore argue for hybridity as a solution to identity crisis because the new personality displays different traces which, in the words of Homi Bhabha, are called “transcultural identities” and such a plurality of identities leads to the production of hybrid personalities and cultures. Such transcultural forms within the contact zone, which Bhabha calls the “in-between space,” carry the burden and meaning of the new cultures that emerge in the postcolonial condition.<br>English Studies<br>M.A. (English)
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Books on the topic "Epic literature, African"

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Epic traditions of Africa. Indiana University Press, 1999.

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Dieng, Bassirou. Les épopées africaines: Étude descriptive. Faculté des lettres, 1993.

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Dieng, Bassirou. Les épopées africaines: Étude descriptive. Faculté des lettres, 1993.

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Heroism and the supernatural in the African epic. Routledge, 2010.

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Fa-Digi, Sisòkò, ed. The epic of Son-Jara: A West African tradition. Indiana University Press, 1992.

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Fa-Digi, Sisòkò, ed. The epic of Son-Jara: A West African tradition. Indiana University Press, 1986.

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Leite, Ana Mafalda. Modalização épica nas literaturas africanas. Vega, 1995.

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Ncogo, Eyi. Akoma Mbá ante el tribunal de Dios: Epopeya de nvet oyeng. Editions Raponda Walker, 1997.

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Niane, Djibril Tamsir. Sundiata: An epic of old Mali. Longman, 1986.

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Niane, Djibril Tamsir. Sundiata: An epic of old Mali. Longman, 1994.

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Book chapters on the topic "Epic literature, African"

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"Introduction to West/Central African Epic." In The Epic Trickster in American Literature. Routledge, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203084946-9.

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Okpewho, Isidore. "African oral epics." In The Cambridge History of African and Caribbean Literature. Cambridge University Press, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/chol9780521832755.007.

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Wales Freedman, Eden. "“You Got Tuh Go There Tuh Know There”." In Reading Testimony, Witnessing Trauma. University Press of Mississippi, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496827333.003.0004.

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This chapter examines how African American literature models and promotes dual-witnessing by underscoring the necessity of primary witnessing and impelling the reluctant reader to witness the narrative experience secondarily. To explore this doubly testimonial orientation, the chapter analyzes two key texts: Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)—in which the life-narrative of the protagonist, Janie, is witnessed dually through conversation with her friend Pheoby—and Margaret Walker’s Jubilee (1966), which likewise embraces dual-witnessing and additionally moves the conversation from two speakers of the same community, race, and gender (e.g., Janie and Pheoby in Their Eyes Were Watching God) to many speakers who partake in an epic-scaled, multiethnic, multi-gendered, and multi-classed communal witnessing. In reading these novels together, the chapter considers how Their Eyes Were Watching God witnesses primarily to Jubilee, which in turn witnesses the earlier work secondarily and intertextually.
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Hui, Andrew. "Petrarch’s Vestigia and the Presence of Absence." In The Poetics of Ruins in Renaissance Literature. Fordham University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823273355.003.0004.

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Any study of Renaissance ruins must begin with Petrarch, for he was one of the first thinkers to recognize that the signs of antiquity were scattered, dispersed, mutilated, which necessitated their reconstruction and renovation. This chapter argues that Petrarch’s existential encounter with the past can be conceived of as an investigation, a search for vestigia. The poetics of ruins for Petrarch is one in which his reflection on the ruins of Rome broadens into a meditation of lost time; this discourse then prompts him to compose fragmentary works that attempt to recollect his scattered self. I give a brief semantic history of vestigium; it explores Petrarch’s search for Laura’s footprints in Rerum vulgarium fragmenta as guided by a dissembling imitation of Dante’s work; in his epic, the Africa, Rome as a city is textualized and made whole through a careful reworking of its predecessors, Aeneid and Pharsalia; there is a kinship between contemplating ruins and writing letters in Petrarch’s epistles, which are modeled after Cicero’s. The chapter finally offers some thoughts on the relationship between gathering the fragments of Petrarch’s self in the Secretum and collecting the fragments of ancient manuscripts in his epistolary collection.
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