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Challenging Hierarchies: Issues and Themes in Colonial and Postcolonial African Literature(5 Society & Politics in Africa)

Challenging Hierarchies: Issues and Themes in Colonial and Postcolonial African Literature(5 Society & Politics in Africa)


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Challenging Hierarchies explores the provocative and compelling work of African authors, from the writing of eighteenth-century social critic Ottobah Cugoano to that of contemporary novelists Chinua Achebe, Tsitsi Dangarembga and Ben Okri. The book focuses on challenges to colonial and neo-colonial oppression, with a special emphasis on African feminism and the work of women writers. Contributors range from renowned authors such as Ama Ata Aidoo and Micere Mugo to innovative literary critics like Obioma Nnaemeka and Vincent Odamiten. Combining criticism, fiction, and creative autobiography, Challenging Hierarchies reflects the vital spirit of African literature and literary studies today.

Table of Contents:
Contents: Ama Ata Aidoo: Literature, Feminism, and the African Woman Today - Micere Mugo: The Woman Artist in Africa Today: A Critical Commentary - Micere Mugo: The South End of North-South Writers' Dialogue: Two Letters from a Postcolonial Feminist Exmatriate - Ama Ata Aidoo: The Genesis of Male-ing Names in the Sun - Ama Ata Aidoo: Male-ing Names in the Sun - Vincent O. Odamtten: Beside Every Good Woman Was a Good Man - Chioma Opara: From Stereotype to Individuality: Womanhood in Chinua Achebe's Novels - Catherine Bicknell: Achebe's Women: Mothers, Priestesses, and Young Urban Professionals - Obioma Nnaemeka: Gender Relations and Critical Mediation: From Things Fall Apart to Anthills of the Savannah - Olusegun Adekoya: Criticizing the Critic: Achebe on Conrad - Leonard A. Podis: Narrative Distancing and the (De)Construction of Imperialist Consciousness in The Man Who Would Be King and Heart of Darkness - Chris Kwame Awuyah: Nationalism and Pan-Africanism in Ghanaian Writing: The Examples of Ottobah Cugoano, Joseph E. Casely-Hayford, and Ayi Kwei Armah - Kofi Anyidoho: IntroBlues: A Poetic Voyage into SoulTime - Vincent O. Odamtten: Sojourners in the Lands of Former Colonizers - Yakubu Saaka and Leonard A. Podis: Representations of Cultural Ambivalence: The Portrayal of Sons and Daughters in Postcolonial African Literature - Leonard A. Podis and Yakubu Saaka: Anthills of the Savannah and Petals of Blood: The Creation of a Usable Past - Obioma Nnaemeka: Marginality as the Third Term: A Reading of Kane's Ambiguous Adventure.

About the Author :
The Editors: Leonard A. Podis is Professor of Writing and English at Oberlin College. His publications include many essays on literature, language, and writing as well as two books, Writing: Invention, Form, and Style and Rethinking Writing. Yakubu Saaka, former deputy foreign minister of Ghana, is Professor of African American Studies at Oberlin College. He has published extensively on African politics, including the book, Local Government and Political Change in Northern Ghana.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780820437101
  • Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
  • Edition: New edition
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: 5 Society & Politics in Africa
  • Sub Title: Issues and Themes in Colonial and Postcolonial African Literature
  • Width: 160 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0820437107
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jun 1998
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 230 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 19 mm
  • Weight: 480 gr


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