| Description |
1 online resource (x, 211 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Missionary moments -- Crossing currents : postcoloniality, globalism, diaspora -- Mission tide : Bishop S.A. Crowther and the "black whitemen" -- Decolonization time : Abrahams, James, Wright -- Globalization time : Achebe, Soyinka, and beyond -- Epilogue: Gaps. |
| Summary |
Alert to the ways in which critical theory and imaginative literature can enrich each other, African Literature and Social Change reframes the ongoing project of African literature. Concentrating on texts that are not usually considered together--writings by little-known black missionaries, so called "black whitemen," and better-known 20th century intellectuals and creative writers--Olakunle George shows the ways in which these writings have addressed notions of ethnicity, nation, and race and how the debates need to be rehistoricized today. George presents Africa as a site of complex desires and contradictions, refashioning the way African literature is positioned within current discussions of globalism, diaspora, and postcolonialism. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
African literature (English) -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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African literature (English) |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
African literature (English) -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Literature and society -- Africa -- History -- 19th century.
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Literature and society. |
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Africa. |
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History. |
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Literature and society -- Africa -- History -- 20th century.
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Social change in literature.
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Social change in literature. |
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Ethnicity in literature.
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Ethnicity in literature. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1999 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: George, Olakunle. African literature and social change. Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2017 9780253025463 (DLC) 2017024198 |
| ISBN |
9780253029324 electronic book |
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0253029325 electronic book |
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9780253025463 hardcover ; alkaline paper |
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9780253025807 (softcover) (alkaline paper) |
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9780253039324 (e-book) |
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