Description
Literature and Culture in Global Africa
Global Africa Series
Author: Ojaide Tanure
Language: EnglishKeywords
Niyi Osundare; Tanure Ojaide; african cultural theory; Jack Mapanje; african literary theory; Modern African Literature; tanure ojaide writer; Odia Ofeimun; Ngugi Wa Thiongo; Oral Poetic Performance Tradition; African Literature; Oral Poetic Performance; Modern African Poetry; Kofi Awoonor; Femi Osofisan; Contemporary African Literature; Mami Wata; Mazisi Kunene; African Poetry; Isidore Okpewho; International Monetary Fund; Young Man; Urhobo People; Nelson Mandela; African Oral; Kofi Anyidoho; Mongo Beti; Soyinka’s Plays
Publication date: 12-2019
· 13.8x21.6 cm · Paperback
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Add to cart the book of Ojaide TanurePublication date: 07-2017
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Engaging and interrogating the idea of a ?Global Africa?, this book examines how African literary and cultural productions have changed over the years due to the social and political influences brought about by increased globalisation. Tanure Ojaide takes a variety of European theoretical concepts and applies these to African literature, oral traditions, culture, sexuality, political leadership, environmentalism, and advocacy, demonstrating the universality of the African experience.
Challenging African literary artists and scholars to think creatively about the future of the culture and literature, this new collection of literary and cultural criticism from scholar-writer Tanure Ojaide is an essential read for students and scholars of African literature and culture.
1. Introduction: Background;
2. John Barth and Modern African Literature: Exhaustion and Replenishment;
3. Michel Foucault and the Urhobo Udje Oral Poetic Tradition: Madness, Power, and Resistance;
4. Losing Cultural Ground in the Global Space: Africa’s Profit and Loss in Globalization;
5. Environmentalism in African Literature: Origins and Development;
6. Love, Sex, and Sexuality in African Folklore and Literature;
7. African Literature of Advocacy;
8. The New Orality in Contemporary African Literature;
9. The Present in the Everlasting: Overcoming Contemporaneity in African Poetry;
10. Literature and Political Leadership in Africa;
11. Theorizing Modern/Contemporary African Literature;
12. Conclusion: Towards a New African Literature in a Global Age.
Tanure Ojaide is the Frank Porter Graham Professor of Africana Studies at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA. He has published nineteen poetry collections, four novels, three short story collections, two memoirs and six scholarly books.