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Indigeneity, Globalization, and African Literature Personally Speaking
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Literature remains one of the few disciplines that reflect the experiences, sensibility, worldview, and living realities of its people. Contemporary African literature captures the African experien...
Literature remains one of the few disciplines that reflect the experiences, sensibility, worldview, and living realities of its people. Contemporary African literature captures the African experience in history and politics in a multiplicity of ways. Politics itself has come to intersect and impact on most, if not all, aspects of the African reality. This relationship of literature with African people’s lives and condition forms the setting of this study. Tanure Ojaide’s Indigeneity, Globalization, and African Literature: Personally Speaking belongs with a well-established tradition of personal reflections on literature by African creative writer-critics. Ojaide’s contribution brings to the table the perspective of what is now recognized as a “second generation” writer, a poet, and a concerned citizen of Nigeria’s Niger Delta area. .
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- Creator
- by Tanure Ojaide
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- Books
- Language
- English
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- 1st ed. 2015
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015
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- 1 online resource (301 p.)
- ISBNs
- 9781137560032, 1137560037, 1349563382, 1137542209
- Description based upon print version of record.
- English
- Contemporary Africa and the politics in literature -- Homecoming : African literature and human development -- Defining Niger Delta literature : preliminary perspective on an emerging literature -- After the Nobel : Wole Xoyinka's poetic output -- Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart in world literature -- An unusual growth : the development of Tijan M. Sallah's poetry -- An insider testimony : Odia Ofeimun and his generation of Nigerian poets -- Reviving modern African poetry : an argument -- The perils of a culture-less African literature in the age of globalization -- The imperative of experience in poetry : an African perspective -- Indigenous knowledge and its expression in the folklore of Africa and the African diaspora -- Policy studies, activist literature, and pitching for the masses in Nigeria -- Traditional Izon court and modern poetry : Christian Otobotekere's contribution -- Personally speaking : on the beauty I have seen -- Revisiting an African oral poetic performance : Udje today -- Performance, the new African poetry, and my poetry : a commentary -- Two tributes : Chinua Achebe and Kofi Awoonor -- The politics of African literature : production, publishing, and reception