African literary theory has recently gained immensely from an emerging multitude of perspectives and scholarly approaches. This volume offers a welcome opportunity to assess trends in the twenty-first century's discourse on African literature: Twelve different articles treat such lively issues as modernity, nation, civil society, postcolonial theory, and feminism, relating these both to more recent short stories, poems, and novels and to a large variety of texts that have in one way or another acquired canonical status. The first section "Language, Modernity and Modernism" explores ocial and...
African literary theory has recently gained immensely from an emerging multitude of perspectives and scholarly approaches. This volume offers a welcom...
Description: This anthology addresses the topic of --fundamentalism and gender-- from inter- and trans-disciplinary perspectives. By referring to three major themes----Literalism, Religion, and Science, -- --Nation, State, and Community, -- and --Body, Life, and Biopolitics----the book focuses on the analytical diversification of the term --fundamentalism-- and on intersections between religion, gender, sexuality, race, and nation. International scholars in cultural history and theory, religious studies, Christian theologies, Islamic studies, history, social sciences, anthropology,...
Description: This anthology addresses the topic of --fundamentalism and gender-- from inter- and trans-disciplinary perspectives. By referring to thre...
