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Journal articles on the topic "LITERARY CRITICISM / African"

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Du Plessis, J. W., and D. H. Steenberg. "Uit die oogpunt van ’n vrou? Perspektief op feministiese literêre kritiek in die kader van die Airikaanse prosa." Literator 12, no. 3 (1991): 71–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v12i3.781.

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Feminists feel that in literary criticism not enough consideration is given to feminism as an ideology in the production of texts. According to them, existing literary criticism is strongly man-centred. This is especially true of the practice of South African literary criticism. Although feminism does not have at its disposal a formulated feminist literary criticism, a great deal of research has been done in this direction abroad. This is especially the case in Europe and America. Feminist literary critics apply themselves to the representation of the woman in works by male authors and an anal
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Kruger, Liam. "Literary Value and the Prizewinning African Novel." Novel: A Forum on Fiction 58, no. 1 (2025): 79–94. https://doi.org/10.1215/00295132-11679322.

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Abstract What are the values implied by the 2021 boom in prizewinning African literature, and what are its implications for literary criticism? This essay considers three prizewinning African novelists—Damon Galgut, Abdulrazak Gurnah, and Tsitsi Dangarembga—and their popular and scholarly receptions to ascertain what is being valued in these authors when they are awarded the Booker, Nobel, and PEN Pinter Prize, respectively. The article compares this evaluative and interpretive state of affairs to an earlier moment in postcolonial studies in an effort to raise the question of what the task of
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Esonwanne, Uzoma. "“Yes, but . . .” : On Reforming African Literary Scholarship." Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry 4, no. 2 (2017): 265–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pli.2017.4.

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Abstract“Yes, but . . .” subscribes fully to the arguments on the basis of which Tejumola Olaniyan refutes the often unspoken axioms such as the “corporeal” test by which what counts as genuinely “African” in African literary scholarship is determined. In those arguments, which appear in “African Literature in the Post-Global Age: Provocations on Field Commonsense” (PLI 3.3 [2016]: 387–96), he outlines very explicitly the views about the objects of study, methodologies, and critical theories that have implicitly guided the most powerful scholarship on African literature at least since the 1990
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Reid, Katie. "MIGRATION AND TRANSFORMATION IN RECENT AFRICAN LITERARY CRITICISM." Africa 82, no. 2 (2012): 312–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0001972012000071.

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Krishnan, Madhu. "Materials, Structures and African Literary Criticism: A Response." Cambridge Quarterly 49, no. 3 (2020): 295–302. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/camqtly/bfaa017.

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Panova, Olga. "Phillis Wheatley in American Literary History and African American Literary Criticism." Literature of the Americas, no. 4 (2018): 8–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.22455/2541-7894-2018-4-8-40.

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Martin, Reginald. "Current Thought in African-American Literary Criticism: An Introduction." College English 52, no. 7 (1990): 727. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/377628.

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Dubey, Madhu, and Joyce Ann Joyce. "Warriors, Conjurers and Priests: Defining African-Centered Literary Criticism." African American Review 30, no. 3 (1996): 464. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3042539.

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Miller, Elise. "Mourning and Melancholy: Literary Criticism by African American Women." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 35, no. 2 (2016): 463–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tsw.2016.0034.

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Nazareth, Peter, and Joyce Ann Joyce. "Warriors, Conjurers and Priests: Defining African-Centered Literary Criticism." World Literature Today 69, no. 4 (1995): 802. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40151692.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "LITERARY CRITICISM / African"

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Mogoboya, Mphoto Johannes. "African indentity in Es'kia Mphahlele's autobiographical and fictional novels : a literary investigation." Thesis, University of Limpopo, Turfloop Campus, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/972.

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Thesis (Ph.D. (English studies)) -- University of Limpopo, 2011<br>This thesis explores the theme of identity in Es’kia Mpha-hele’s fictional and autobiographical novels, with special attention given to the quest for the lost identity of Afri-can cultural and philosophical integrity. In other words, the revival of the core African experience and the efforts to preserve and promote things African. Mphahlele wrote most of his novels during the time when Africa was under colonial influence. His native land was under the abhorred apartheid system which sought to relegate the African expe-rience to
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Abodunrin, Olufemi Joseph. "The literary links of Africa and the black diaspora : a discourse in cultural and ideological signification." Thesis, University of Stirling, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/24387.

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The politics of the Middle-Passage and its attendant socio-cultural and historical trauma is the starting point of this study. The dispersal of Africans, or at least people of African origin, to different parts of the world has produced over the past few decades numerous dissertations and theses describing socio-cultural linkages between Africa and the Black diaspora. On the part of creative writers and literary critics of every persuasion, there exists a consensus of creative and critical opinion that seeks to establish that "the history of Africa and the Africans ... is one of iron, blood an
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Attwell, David. "Indigenous tradition and the colonial legacy : a study in the social context of anglophone African literary criticism." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7591.

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Bibliography: leaves 219-229.<br>This dissertation attempts to examine the social meanings of anglophone African literary criticism as an ideological discourse. It begins by engaging with Marxist critical traditions, with particular reference to two areas of debate: the question of the epistemological relationship between literature and criticism, and the question of criticism's being a discourse which, in its articulation with a given social context, relies on the resources of a particular critical heritage. The basis of the second and central chapter is the interrelationship between the cont
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Barclay, Fiona J. "Postcolonial France? : the problematisation of Frenchness through North African immigration : a literary study of metropolitan novels 1980-2000." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2006. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/3248/.

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This thesis undertakes a literary study of contemporary novels published by metropolitan French writers between 1980 and 2000, and analyses their representation of the changing relationship between France and North Africa. It begins by analysing the specificity of the situation in France, arguing that this is largely due to the functioning of the French Republican tradition, which equates inassimilable difference with inferiority. Consequently, France’s former colonies represent a privileged site of the Republican relationship with difference. This is particularly acute in the case of Algeria,
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Mbao, Wamuwi. "Unavowable communities : mapping representational excess in South African literary culture, 2001-2011." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/80124.

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Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2013.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis takes as its subject matter a small field of activity in South African fiction in English, a field which I provisionally title the post-transitional moment. It brings together several works of literature that were published between 2004 and 2011. In so doing, it recognises that there can be no delineation of the field except in the most tenuous of senses: as Michael Chapman asserts, such “phases of chronology are ordering conveniences rather than neatly separable entities” (South African Literature 2). In attempting
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Jacobs, Anthony Richard. "Flying in the face of convention: "The heart of redness" as rehabilitative of the South African pastoral literary tradition through the frame of universal myth." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2005. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&amp.

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This thesis analyzed Zakes Mda's The Heart of redness in the tradition of South African pastoral and counter-pastoral. It proposed that the novel is a hybrid of both African and European tradition and perspectives. It adduced Northrop Frye's theory of myth and archetypes in literature as a basis for study. It also analysed the novel in its use of irony.
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Slagle, Judith Bailey. "Literary Activism: James Montgomery, Joanna Baillie, and the Plight of Britain’s Chimney Sweeps." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2012. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/720.

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Excerpt: On 6 February 1824, Joanna Baillie Notified Her Friend Walter Scott that Scottish poet James Montgomery, then living in Sherrield, England, had written to ask her for a poem on the plight on chimney sweeps, also known as climbing boys.
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Stayton, Corey. "Too Terrible to Relate: Dynamic Trauma in the Novels of Toni Morrison." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 2017. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/cauetds/69.

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This study examines trauma, particularly in the thematic contexts of the individual and the community as reflected in her novels Sula, Song of Solomon, and Beloved. By utilizing the specific theoretical modes of new historicism and trauma theory, the veil of double consciousness imposed on African Americans is explicated and exposes various forms of trauma in the individual and the community. The unspoken atrocities experienced as a result of slavery, Jim Crow, and physical and sexual violence in many of Morrison’s novels, suggest the common thread of trauma. The particular traumas depicted in
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Compion, Marlette. "'n Ondersoek na Scheherazade as moontlike voorganger in 'n vroulike verteltradisie in enkele Afrikaanse literêre tekste /." Link to the online version, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10019/998.

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Phiri, Aretha Myrah Muterakuvanthu. "Toni Morrison and the literary canon whiteness, blackness, and the construction of racial identity." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002255.

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Toni Morrison, in Playing in the Dark, observes the pervasive silence that surrounds race in nineteenth-century canonical literature. Observing the ways in which the “Africanist” African-American presence pervades this literature, Morrison has called for an investigation of the ways in which whiteness operates in American canonical literature. This thesis takes up that challenge. In the first section, from Chapters One through Three, I explore how whiteness operates through the representation of the African-American figure in the works of three eminent nineteenth-century American writers, Harr
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Books on the topic "LITERARY CRITICISM / African"

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Hord, Fred L. Reconstructing memory: Black literary criticism. Third World Press, 1991.

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Arnett, Ervin Hazel, ed. African American literary criticism, 1773 to 2000. Twayne, 1999.

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Toomer, Jean. Jean Toomer: Selected essays and literary criticism. University of Tennessee Press, 1996.

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Nwabueze, Emeka. Visions and revisions: Selected discourses on literary criticism. ABIC, 2003.

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Joyce, Joyce Ann. Warriors, conjurers and priests: Defining African-centered literary criticism. Third World Press, 1994.

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A, Smit Johannes, Van Wyk Johan, and Wade Jean-Philippe, eds. Rethinking South African literary history. Y Press, 1996.

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Sivaramakrishnan, V. The African mind: A literary perspective. Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, 1990.

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Gates, Henry Louis. The signifying monkey: A theory of African-American literary criticism. Oxford University Press, 1988.

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Gates, Henry Louis. The signifying monkey: A theory of Afro-American literary criticism. Oxford University Press, 1988.

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Udenta, Udenta O. Revolutionary aesthetics and the African literary process. Fourth Dimension Pub., 1993.

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Book chapters on the topic "LITERARY CRITICISM / African"

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Laws, Page. "Turning the Tide for African Literary Criticism: Achebe’s “An Image of Africa” as a Founding Text of Africana Studies." In African Histories and Modernities. Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50797-8_13.

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Chapman, Michael. "The Potential and Limitations of Symptomatic Criticism." In On Literary Attachment in South Africa. Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003176237-6.

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Kasongo, Mukile, and Georgia Nasseh. "The Spectre of Maksim Gorky." In Translating Russian Literature in the Global Context. Open Book Publishers, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.11647/obp.0340.19.

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The relationship between the Soviet Union and the African continent has increasingly attracted the attention of historians and literary critics alike, with Angola frequently treated as a fruitful case study. This chapter traces the socio-cultural microhistory of the transmission of the work of Maksim Gorky (1868–1936) in Angola––a transmission which underpinned, crucially, the development of a littérature engagé during the struggle for Angolan independence from the Portuguese Empire in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Gorky’s influence on the generation of Angolan writers active in the 1950s an
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Kalu, Anthonia C. "The African woman and African literary criticism." In Women, Literature and Development in Africa. Routledge, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429027796-2.

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"The African-American Literary Tradition." In Encyclopedia of Literature and Criticism. Routledge, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203403624-97.

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Lee-Price, Simon. "African American literary history and criticism." In The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism. Cambridge University Press, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/chol9780521300148.021.

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"3 Islam and Africanist Literary Criticism." In Islam and the West African Novel. Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781626373679-004.

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Patterson, Robert J. "African American feminist theories and literary criticism." In The Cambridge Companion to African American Women's Literature. Cambridge University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ccol9780521858885.006.

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Johnson, David. "Literary and cultural criticism in South Africa." In The Cambridge History of South African Literature. Cambridge University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/chol9780521199285.041.

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"The Logic of Agency in African Literary Criticism." In Relocating Agency. State University of New York Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/jj.18254641.7.

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Conference papers on the topic "LITERARY CRITICISM / African"

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Zwelakhe Dlamini, Sizwe. "THE NATION IN TURMOIL: A POST-COLONIAL CRITIQUE OF SOUTH AFRICAN EDITORIAL CARTOONS." In HuSoc Bali – Humanities & Social Sciences International Conference, 21-22 July 2025. Global Research & Development Services Publishing, 2025. https://doi.org/10.20319/icssh.2025.306307.

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There seems to be little research that has been done to investigate cartoons from a literary criticism point of view. Cartoons have been given attention mostly in discipline like semiotics as compared to other scholarly perspectives. The aim of this article is to attempt to bridge this gap by observing cartoons through the post-colonial approach as a literary theory. The study adopts systematic visuo-textual analysis as a qualitative research technique since cartoons are the primary sources of data collection and analysis. Through the application of the post-colonial theory, the findings demon
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Arierhi Ottuh, John. "The Depiction of Women in Pauline Corpus and Achebe’s Things Fall Apart: Modern African Womanist Criticism." In XII Congress of the ICLA. Georgian Comparative Literature Association, 2025. https://doi.org/10.62119/icla.4.9034.

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Humanities scholars, especially those in African Biblical criticism have given much attention to themes arising from biblical and ecclesiastical boundaries in their critical variants. However, in spite of the impressive body of existing literature in this field, less has been done on the comparative study of biblical and African literature. Using the African method of biblical criticism (comparative and liberation hermeneutics), this study examines the depiction of women in Pauline corpus (New Testament literature) and Achebe’s Things Fall Apart (African literature) by arguing that, although P
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Mavuru, Lydia. "PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS’ CONCEPTIONS OF THE INTEGRATION OF SOCIOSCIENTIFIC ISSUES IN LIFE SCIENCES TEACHING." In International Conference on Education and New Developments. inScience Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.36315/2022v1end124.

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"Debates have been going on regarding what the goals of science education are and how those goals could be achieved. Developing scientific literacy in learners has gained traction over the years among other goals. It has been documented that by engaging learners in socioscientific issues (SSIs) in the science classrooms learners acquire complex competencies and skills necessary for scientific literacy. Learners also get motivated to learn science and take up careers in science. The current paper reports findings from a qualitative case study which sought to determine pre-service teachers’ conc
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