African Literary NGOs

Power, Politics, and Participation
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-349-46253-7
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 243 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 327 g

Proposing the novel concept of the "literary NGO," this study combines interviews with contemporary East African writers with an analysis of their professional activities and the cultural funding sector to make an original contribution to African literary criticism and cultural studies.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Strauhs, Doreen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Entwicklungsstudien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Afrikanische Literaturen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Kommunikation und Partizipation

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction. Kenya and Uganda in the Limelight: Setting the Stage 1. "The landscape had not its like in all the world": (East) African Anglophone Writing from the 1940s to the Late 1990s 2. African Literary NGOs (LINGOs): A Model for African Literary Criticism and Cultural Politics 3. The African Literary Revolution on Our Doorstep?: African LINGOs Past and Present 4. Survival of the Fittest: African LINGOs - An Enduring Phenomenon? 5. "Tongues on Fire": The Politics of Being an African Writer in an African LINGO in the 21st Century 6. "Words that reshape a country" and Literary Canons?: Agency and Narrative 7. Rewriting African Identity, Self, and Place: Civil War and HIV/AIDS in Fiction 8. Some Conclusions and Future Scenarios for the African LINGO in the 21st Century

Über Autor(innen)

Doreen Strauhs is a professional with The German National Academic Foundation, Germany's largest organization sponsoring highly gifted students of outstanding academic achievements. She has been published with Wasafiri, The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, and Kunapipi. From 2006 to 2012, she worked in the East African NGO-sector and conducted research in Kenya, Uganda, and the USA on the contemporary generation of East African writers.