Routledge handbook of minority discourses in African literature. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Handbook of minority discourses in African literature; Minority discourses in African literature
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Tanure Ojaide, Joyce Ashuntantang.
• Editors: Ojaide, Tanure, 1948-; Ashuntantang, Joyce
• Contents: PART I : Background 1 Introduction; Tanure Ojaide and Joyce Ashuntantang 2 The theory and aesthetics of minority discourses in African literature; Tanure Ojaide PART II: Political and racial forms of marginalization 3 Amazigh/Berber literature and "literary space": a contested minority situation in (North) African literatures; Daniela Merolla 4 Negotiating the global literary market: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s short fiction; Maximus Feldner 5 Anglophone Cameroon literature: writing from the margins of the margin; Joyce Ashuntantang 6 Niger Delta and its minority condition in Nigerian writing; Obari Gomba 7 Jola verbal arts of Casamance, Senegal, and The Gambia: a question in search of a literature; Tijan M. Sallah 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; Ernest Cole 9 Of pidgin, Nigerian Pidgin poetry, and minority discourses: the pidgin poems of Ezenwa-Ohaeto; Chike Okoye 10 Three moments of minor Afrikaans literary expression; Hein Willemse 11 Swahili literature as a minority discourse in African literatures; Mwenda Mbatiah 12 Becoming-minoritarian: constructions of coloured identities in creative writing projects at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa; F.F. Moolla PART IV: Patriarchal domination, gender, sexuality, and other sociocultural "minorities" 13 A reflection on gender and sexuality as transnational archive of African modernity; Frieda Ekotto 14 "Who do you think you are, woman?" Wangari Maathai answers the patriarchal state in Unbowed; Gĩchingiri Ndĩgrĩgĩ 15 Representation of women in udje, an Urhobo men’s-only oral poetic performance genre; Enajite Ojaruega 16 Voices from the margin: female protagonists navigating power geometries; Oumar Cherif Diop 17 Responding from the fringe: women, Islam, and patriarchy in Nigerian Muslim women’s novels; Saeedat Bola Aliyu PART V: Intranational, national, and international marginalization/conflict 18 The odds against Eritrean literature; Charles Cantalupo 19 Minority discourses and the construction of illicit versions of Zimbabwean nation-ness in Ndebele fiction in English; Maurice Taonezvi Vambe 20 The muse of history and the literature of the Nigeria-Biafra War; Maik Nwosu PART VI: Literature and disability 21 Children with disabilities as negotiators of social responsibility: a critical study of ‘redemption’ in Meshack Asare’s Sosu’s Call; Dike Okoro 22 Beyond ‘harmless lunacy’: African women writers (w)riting madness; Pamela J. Olubunmi Smith 23 Mental health, minority discourse and Tanure Ojaide’s short stories; Stephen E. Kekeghe PART VII: Recent trends of marginalities: timely and timeless 24 Not yet season of blossom: writing Northern Nigeria into the global space; Sule Emmanuel Egya 25 Afropolitan literature as a minority discourse in contemporary African literature; Razinat T. Mohammed 26 Tanella Boni’s Matins de couvre-feu : environmentalism and ecocriticism in African literature; Honore Missihoun 27 Futuristic themes and science fiction in modern African literature; Dike Okoro 28 Writing the self: Indian women writers from South Africa; Rajendra Chetty
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 809.8896; African literature -- History and criticism; Minorities in literature
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000053050; 9781000053036; 9781000053043; 9780429354229
• Related ISBNs: 9780367368340
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