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1 online resource (357 pages) |
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction -- African-language literatures and popular arts: challenges and new approaches; 1 Proverbs in narratives: Seeing the contemporary through archaic gazes in Aphelile Agambaqa and Impi YaboMdabu Isethunjini; 2 Nested narratives: 'Some are seated well ... while others are not seated at all'; 3 Acts of naming: The detective plot in Masondo's fiction; 4 'A world in creolisation': Inheritance politics and the ambiguities of a 'very modern tradition' in two black South African TV dramas. |
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5 Thematic re-engagements in the television drama series Gaz' Lam and isiZulu literature6 'It is not crime in the way you see it': Kuyoqhuma Nhlamvana's rewriting of Yizo Yizo's crime discourse and outlaw culture; 7 Conclusion; References; Index. |
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African-language writing is in crisis. The conditions under which African writing developed in the past (only remotely similar to those of Western models), resulted in an inability of Eurocentric literary models to explore the hermeneutic world of African language poetics inherited from the oral and the modern worlds. Existing modes of criticism in the study of this literary tradition are often unsuited for a nuanced understanding of the intrinsic and extrinsic aspects at play in the composition, production and reading of these literatures. In African-Language Literatures, Innocentia Jabulisil. |
| Local Note |
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African fiction (English) -- History and criticism.
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African fiction (English) |
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Language and culture.
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Language and culture. |
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Zulu literature -- History and criticism.
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Zulu literature. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Print version: Mhlambi, Innocentia. African Language Literatures : Perspectives on IsiZulu Fiction and Popular Black Television Series. Chicago : Wits University Press, ©2012 9781868145652 |
| ISBN |
9781868147069 (electronic book) |
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1868147061 (electronic book) |
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9781868145775 (electronic book) |
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1868145778 (electronic book) |
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