Politics & social justice. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Politics and social justice
• Further Information: Note: Editor, Ernest N. Emenyonu, Department of Africana Studies, University of Michigan-Flint, 303 East Kearsley Street, Flint, MI 48502, USA [and nine others].
• Editors: Emenyo̲nu, Ernest, 1939-
• Contents: Frontcover; Dedication to James Gibbs; Contents; Notes on Contributors; EDITORIAL ARTICLE. Fiction & Socio-Political Realities in Africa: What Else Can Literature Do?; ARTICLES; The Novelas an Oral Narrative Performance: The Delegitimization of the Postcolonial Nation in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Matigari Ma Njiruungi; Abiku in Ben Okri'sImagination of Nationhood: A Metaphorical Interpretation of Colonial-Postcolonial Politics; Refracting the Political: Binyavanga Wainaina's One Day I Will Write About This Place Ayi Kwei Armah's The Resolutionaries: Exoteric Fiction, the Common People & Social Change in Post-Colonial Africa -- A Critical ReviewIn Quest of Social Justice: Politics & Women's Participation in Irene Isoken Salami's More than Dancing; Breaking the Laws in J.M. Coetzee's The Childhood of Jesus: Philosophy & the Notion of Justice; The Rhetoric & Caricature of Social Justice in Post-1960 Africa: A Logical Positivist Reading of Ngugı wa Thiongo's Matigari; 'Manhood' in Isidore Okpewho's The Last Duty: Authenticity or Accountability?; REMEMBERING KOFI AWOONOR (13 MARCH 1935-21 SEPTEMBER 2013) Kofi Awoonor: In RetrospectKofi Awoonor: Poem for a Mentor & Friend; Looking Death in the Eye: The Human Condition, Morbidity & Mortality in Kofi Awoonor's Poetry; Eulogy for an Artist, a Statesman, a Teacher & Friend: Kofi Awoonor; Post-Colonial Trauma & the Poetics of Remembering in the Novels of Kofi Awoonor; Song for Nyidevu: For Afetsi, Who Survived to Tell; REVIEWS; Chima Anyadike and Kehinde A. Ayoola, eds, Blazing the Path: Fifty Years of Things Fall Apart; Nana Ayebia Clarke and James Currey eds, Chinua Achebe: Tributes & Reflections François Guiyoba et Pierre Halen, eds. L'Impact des missions chrétiennes sur la constitution des champs littéraires locaux en AfriqueAstrid Van Weyenberg. The Politics of Adaptation -- Contemporary African Drama and Greek Tragedy; Taona D. Chiveneko, The Hangman's Replacement Book 1: Sprout of Disruption; Fagunwa, Daniel O. Forest of a Thousand Daemons, translated by Wole Soyinka, illustrated by Bruce Onabrakpeya; Caroline Davies. Creating Postcolonial Literature: African Writers & British Publishers; Wumi Raji. Contemporary Literature of Africa: Tijan M. Sallah & Literary Works of The Gambia
• Publisher Details: Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer Limited
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (213 pages)
• Subjects: 823.010996; Political science; Rational choice theory; Social justice; Printing -- History; Théorie des choix rationnels; Justice sociale; Imprimerie -- Histoire; Political science; Printing; Rational choice theory; Social justice; Afrika; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781847010971; 1847010970; 9781782043874
• Related ISBNs: 178204387X
• Notes: Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 25, 2014).
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.