African Rhythms : New Approaches to Literature / Smith and Ce, Editors.

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TextPublisher number: MWT11582708Series: Critical writing series on African literaturePublisher: Oxford [England] : African Library of Critical Writing, 2014Copyright date: ©[2014]Description: 1 online resource (172 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9789783603721
9783603728

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: African rhythms : new approaches to literature.DDC classification:

809.896 23

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PL8010 .A375 2014eb

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Contents:

Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1 -- Oratorical Strategies in African Literature; Chapter 2 -- Ral Rhythms of Achebe's Fiction; Chapter 3 -- Releaming the Song that Truly Speaks; Chapter 4 -- Comapring the Child Hero; Chapter 5 -- Children in a Discourse; Chapter 6 -- Hearts and Ballads; Chapter 7 -- Njange Wan; Chapter 8 -- Riddles and Bash; Notes and Bibliography; Back cover

Summary: With new integrative and indigenous approaches to literary affairs the focus of this volume is on the influence of tradition in African writing. Using the work of Chinua Achebe two scholars from outside Africa offer insight on oratorical devices in modern African fiction, two chapters follow which, by fusing traditional elements in transitional societies, illustrate the cultural awareness that touch on the exalted role of the artist in their communities. The post colonial rhetoric also continues with echoes of political commitment on modern poetry - town issues in the discourse of Africa's literary progress in the last decade. The growing concern for African youth development is at the heart of a dialogue with children's fiction writer Anezi Okoro. Two scholars of Africa orature have written on the birth songs of Cameroonian women performers and the riddle contents of youth artists from Nigerian in a manner which recognises the immediate relevance of this cherished but neglected part of African literary aesthetics.

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With new integrative and indigenous approaches to literary affairs the focus of this volume is on the influence of tradition in African writing. Using the work of Chinua Achebe two scholars from outside Africa offer insight on oratorical devices in modern African fiction, two chapters follow which, by fusing traditional elements in transitional societies, illustrate the cultural awareness that touch on the exalted role of the artist in their communities. The post colonial rhetoric also continues with echoes of political commitment on modern poetry - town issues in the discourse of Africa's literary progress in the last decade. The growing concern for African youth development is at the heart of a dialogue with children's fiction writer Anezi Okoro. Two scholars of Africa orature have written on the birth songs of Cameroonian women performers and the riddle contents of youth artists from Nigerian in a manner which recognises the immediate relevance of this cherished but neglected part of African literary aesthetics.

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