African literature and the politics of culture / by James Tar Tsaaior.

By:

Tsaaior, James [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: James Tar Tsaaior is an Associate Professor and Chair of thePublisher: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

1306166543
9781306166546
9781443853828
1443853828

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: African literature and the politics of culture.DDC classification:

809.896

LOC classification:

PL8010 .T384 2013

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Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PREFACE; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.

Summary: This book essentially negotiates African literature as a veritable site of artistic and cultural production and situates it within the dynamic of postcolonial cultural politics. It critically evaluates African literature as a contour of cultural contestation with the imperial politics of knowledge production about others and as an ideological strategy for knowing them. The book's main contribution to the critical discourse on African literature and culture inheres in the fact that politics constitutes the enduring concern of society as it re/shapes and over-determines discourses which have con.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-211) and index.

This book essentially negotiates African literature as a veritable site of artistic and cultural production and situates it within the dynamic of postcolonial cultural politics. It critically evaluates African literature as a contour of cultural contestation with the imperial politics of knowledge production about others and as an ideological strategy for knowing them. The book's main contribution to the critical discourse on African literature and culture inheres in the fact that politics constitutes the enduring concern of society as it re/shapes and over-determines discourses which have con.

TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PREFACE; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.

English.

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