Forceful Creation In Harsh Terrain

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Critical Essays On Bessie Head

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Author : Maxine Sample
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 2003-09-30

Critical Essays On Bessie Head written by Maxine Sample and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-09-30 with History categories.

Scholars of English literature examine the work of Head (1937- 86), whose fictional and autobiographical writings were shaped by her exile from South African apartheid. Among the topics are agriculture and healing, writing after the end of romance, reclaiming language through the permanent revolution of language, and the didactic judgement of a women writer. Only names and titles are indexed. Annotation ♭2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Haunting Capital

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Author : Hershini Bhana Young
language : en
Publisher: Dartmouth
Release Date : 2006

Haunting Capital written by Hershini Bhana Young and has been published by Dartmouth this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with History categories.

In Haunting Capital, Hershini Young sets out to re-theorize the African diaspora "so that the concept becomes unintelligible without an understanding of gender as a constitutive element." Young uses the historically injured bodies of black women, as represented in novels by black women, to talk about colonialism, gender, race, memory and haunting. Haunting Capital departs from traditional trauma studies, which stress individual wounding and psychotherapeutic models. Instead, Young explores the notion of injury as a collective wounding, resulting from the trauma of capitalistic regimes such as slavery and colonialism. She also introduces the idea of the ghost to her discussion of collective injury, where it functions not only on theoretical and metaphorical levels, but also by invoking African cosmologies in which ghosts are ancestral beings with a real spiritual presence. More specifically, Young insists on the contemporary reality of African nations and eschews the presentation of Africa as a vague, undifferentiated point of origin that characterizes many other studies of the African diaspora. Her reading of African contemporary novels by women, alongside African American and Caribbean novels, works to show the African diaspora as haunted by similar, though different, issues of gendered and racialized violence.

Resistance And Consciousness In Kenya And South Africa

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Author : Anders Breidlid
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Release Date : 2002

Resistance And Consciousness In Kenya And South Africa written by Anders Breidlid and has been published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Foreign Language Study categories.

This study undertakes an analysis of the models of response (resistance/non-agency) to colonial, apartheid and post-colonial imposition which are posited in the novels of the Kenyan author Ngugi wa Thiong'o and the South African writer Alex La Guma. Such a focus involves related issues such as the relationship between the consciousness level of the subaltern and his/her capacity for resistance, and how oppression affects self-construction and consciousness. Since the book deals with resistance and consciousness within the textual space of the novels, the central issue raised in the study is explored around questions of representation. The study places the texts in the historical and political context of colonial and post-colonial Kenya and apartheid South Africa. The study analyses the development of the two authors' literary careers and distinguishes between two phases in the two authors' fiction, viz. their «counter-hegemonic» and their «combat» fiction. While the counter-hegemonic fiction resists essentialist representation of subaltern consciousness and rejects an essentialist view of resistance as an obvious, non-contradictory act, the study claims that their combat literature is a more direct, uncompromising and often one-dimensional reaction and struggle against the oppressor.

Living On A Horizon

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Author : Desiree Lewis
language : en
Publisher: Africa Research and Publications
Release Date : 2007

Living On A Horizon written by Desiree Lewis and has been published by Africa Research and Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Literary Criticism categories.

Bessie Head's writing illustrates a fusion of styles, subjects and philosophical and literary influences. This book explores this range by drawing both on postcolonial and feminist theories. Focusing on Head's acute sensitivity to social and historical experiences, the book deals with Head's use of myths and trans-cultural fictions that convey knowledge about her immediate world and the historical domains beyond it. In addition, Bessie Head's autobiographical vision generates an exploration of personal injustices as well as the processes they signal. Hinduism and eastern philosophy were central to Head's philosophical vision, and the book shows how this vision allowed her to explore existential questions and spiritual concerns in innovative and unexpected ways. By using language auto-referentially and symbolically, by drawing on myths and by developing abundantly textured metaphors, Head produces fictions that manifest the notions of freedom and serenity she urgently endorses, and that are as concerned with challenging the realities she confronts as they are with utopian imagining.

Kunapipi

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007

Kunapipi written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Commonwealth literature (English) categories.

Books Without Borders Volume 1

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Author : Robert Fraser
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Release Date : 2008-07-31

Books Without Borders Volume 1 written by Robert Fraser and has been published by Palgrave MacMillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-07-31 with History categories.

Where does the book belong? Does it enshrine the soul of a nation, or is it a means by which nations talk to one another, sharing ideas, technologies, texts? This text responds to these questions with archive-based case studies of print culture in a number of countries around the world.

The Life And Work Of Bessie Head

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008

The Life And Work Of Bessie Head written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Women and literature categories.

Black African Literature In English 1991 2001

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Author : Femi Abodunrin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007

Black African Literature In English 1991 2001 written by Femi Abodunrin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Literary Criticism categories.

The English Association, based at the University of Leicester in the UK, aims to further knowledge and enjoyment of the English language and literature, and to foster good practice in its teaching and learning at all levels. They produce an annual review, The Year's Work in English, published by Oxford University Press, a narrative bibliographical review of scholarly work on the English language and literatures, including on new literatures in English. This book brings together eleven contributions contemporary black African literature in English, 1991-2001. Some 120 books and over 300 scholarly and bibliographical essays from journals and periodicals are reviewed.

Emerging Perspectives On Bessie Head

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Author : Huma Ibrahim
language : en
Publisher: Africa Research and Publications
Release Date : 2004

Emerging Perspectives On Bessie Head written by Huma Ibrahim and has been published by Africa Research and Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Literary Criticism categories.

The Journal Of Commonwealth Literature

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998

The Journal Of Commonwealth Literature written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Commonwealth literature (English) categories.

One number each year includes Annual bibliography of Commonwealth literature.