Writing and Africa 1st Edition by Mpalive Hangson Msiska, Paul Hyland 9780582214187 0582214181

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ISBN 10: 0582214181 

ISBN 13: 9780582214187

Author: Mpalive-Hangson Msiska, Paul Hyland

This volume reflects one of the new areas of English Studies as it broadens to take in non-western literatures, and places more emphasis on the contexts and broader notions of `writing’. In discussing writing from and about Africa, this collection touches on studies in black writing, colonialism and imperialism and cultural development in the third world. It begins by providing a historical introduction to the main regional traditions, and then builds on this to discuss major issues, such as oral tradition, the significance of `literature’ as a western import, representations of Africa in western writing, African writing against colonialism and its themes and politics in a post-colonial world, popular writing and the representation of women.

Table of contents:

Part I – Writing and History: A Survey

1. North African Writing

2. West African Writing

3. East and Central African Writing

Part II – Issues and Problems
4. What is African Literature?: Ethnography and Criticism
5. Fiction as an Historicising Form in Modern South Africa
6. Empires of the Imagination: Rider Haggard, Popular Fiction and Africa
7. Stars in the Moral Universe: Writing and Resistance to Colonialism
8. Writing, Literacy and History in Africa
9. Oral Tradition as History
10. Popular Writing in Africa
11. African Writing and Gender
12. The Changing Fortunes of the Writer in Africa?
13. The Press in Africa: Expression and Repression
14. Post-Colonialism and Language

Part III – Selected Documents
1a. Countering Colonial and Neo-Colonial Hegemony
2a. Writing and Gender
3a. The Role of the Writer
4a. The Language Question

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