The essays collected in African Print Cultures claim African newspapers as subjects of historical and literary study. Newspapers were not only vehicles for anticolonial nationalism. They were also incubators of literary experimentation and networks by which new solidarities came into being. By focusing on the creative work that African editors and contributors did, this volume brings an infrastructure of African public culture into view. The first of four thematic sections, African Newspaper Networks, considers the work that newspaper editors did to relate events within their...
The essays collected in African Print Cultures claim African newspapers as subjects of historical and literary study. Newspapers were not on...
The work of renowned Ivoirian playwright Koffi Kwahule has been translated into some 15 languages and is performed regularly throughout Europe, Africa, and the Americas. For the first time, Seven Plays of Koffi Kwahule In and Out of Africa makes available to an Anglophone audience some of the best and most representative plays by one of Francophone Africa's most accomplished living playwrights. Kwahule's theater delves into both the horror of civil war in Africa and the diasporic experience of peoples of African origin living in Europe and the "New World." From the split...
The work of renowned Ivoirian playwright Koffi Kwahule has been translated into some 15 languages and is performed regularly throughout Europe, Africa...
Situates South African and African-language literature of the late 1880s through the early 1940s in relation to the literature of decolonization that spanned the 1950s through the 1980s, and the contemporary generation of established and emerging continental and diaspora African writers of international renown.
Situates South African and African-language literature of the late 1880s through the early 1940s in relation to the literature of decolonization that ...
Under apartheid, black South Africans engaged with an array of textual and visual cultures in ways that shaped their responses to this period of ethical crisis. Marshalling forms of historical evidence, this book considers the importance of popular genres and audiences in the relationship between ethical consciousness and aesthetic engagement.
Under apartheid, black South Africans engaged with an array of textual and visual cultures in ways that shaped their responses to this period of ethic...
Under apartheid, black South Africans engaged with an array of textual and visual cultures in ways that shaped their responses to this period of ethical crisis. Marshalling forms of historical evidence, this book considers the importance of popular genres and audiences in the relationship between ethical consciousness and aesthetic engagement.
Under apartheid, black South Africans engaged with an array of textual and visual cultures in ways that shaped their responses to this period of ethic...
The Chadian writer Nimrod is one of the most dynamic and vital voices in contemporary African literature and thought. Yet little of Nimrod's writing has been translated into English until now. Frieda Ekotto provides context for Nimrod's work and demonstrates the urgency of making it available beyond Francophone Africa.
The Chadian writer Nimrod is one of the most dynamic and vital voices in contemporary African literature and thought. Yet little of Nimrod's writing h...
