Routledge Handbook of Minority Discourses in African Literature

ISBN-13: 9780367368340 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 416 str.

Tanure Ojaide; Joyce Ashuntantang

Opis

This handbook provides a critical overview of literature dealing with groups of people or regions that suffer marginalization within Africa.

Spis treści

Part I: Background  1. Introduction  2. The Theory and Aesthetics of Minority Discourses in African Literature  Part II: Political and Racial Forms of Marginalization  3. Amazigh/Berber literature and “literary space”: a contested minority situation in (North) African literatures  4.  Negotiating the global literary market: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s short fiction  5. Anglophone Cameroon Literature: Writing from the Margins of the Margin  6. Niger Delta and its Minority Condition in Nigerian Writing  7. Jola Verbal Arts of Cassamance, Senegal and The Gambia: A Question in Search of a Literature  Part III: Culture and Language  8. Negating hegemony: linguistic and rhetorical formations as discursive praxis of resistance in Yulisa Amadu Maddy’s Obasai and Other Plays  9. Of Pidgin, Nigerian Pidgin Poetry, and Minority Discourses: The Pidgin Poems of Ezenwa-Ohaeto  10. Three Moments of Minor Afrikaans Expression  11. Swahili Literature as Minority Discourse in African Literatures  12. Becoming-minoritarian: constructions of coloured identities in creative writing projects at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa  Part IV: Patriarchal Domination, Gender, Sexuality and Other Sociocultural "Minorities"  13. A Reflection on Gender and Sexuality as Transnational Archive of African Modernity
  14. 'Who Do You Think You Are, Woman?': Wangari Maathai Answers the Patriarchal State in Unbowed  15. Representation of Women in Udje, an Urhobo Men's-Only Oral Poetic Performance Genre  16. Voices from the margin: female protagonists navigating power geometries  17. Responding from the Fringe: Women, Islam and Patriarchy in Nigerian Muslim Women's Novels  Part V: Intranational, National and International Marginalization/Conflict  18. The Odds Against Eritrean Literature  19. Minority Discourses and the Construction of 'Illicit Versions' of Zimbabwean Nation-ness in Ndebele Fiction in English  20. The Muse of History and the Literature of the Nigeria-Biafra War  Part VI: Literature and Disability  21. Children with Disabilities as Negotiatiors of Social Responsibility: A Critical Study of Meshak Asare's Sosu's Call  22. Beyond 'Harmless Lunacy': African Women Writers (W)riting Madness  23. Mental health, minority discourse and Tanure Ojaide’s short stories  Part VII: Recent Trends of Marginalities: Timely and Timeless  24. Not Yet Season of Blossom: Writing Northern Nigeria into the Global Space  25. Afropolitan literature as a minority discourse in contemporary: African literature  26. Tanella Boni’s Matins de couvre-feu: environmentalism and ecocriticism in African literature  27. Futuristic themes and science fiction in modern African literature  28. Writing the Self: Indian Women Writers from South Africa