Woods African pasts

Memory and history in African literatures
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-5261-3079-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Web PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Explores African literature in the post-colonial era, as a traumatic response to the effects of colonialism. Among other issues, it deals with literature in the era of apartheid, the early post-apartheid years in literature, postmodern African fiction and the response to colonialism in the work of writers imprisoned for their political beliefs

Autoren/Hrsg.

Woods, Tim

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Afrikanische Literaturen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1. Figuring African history and memory
2. Purifying the language of the tribe: (Pre)colonial memory
3. Critical and traumatic realist pasts
4. Gender, Memory, History
5. Imprisonment narratives: History through the eyes of hostages
6. Embedding memory, seizing history: South African resistance poetry in the 1970s and 1980s
7. On shifting ground: South African fiction in the interregnum
8. Intimations of the Postmodern

Über Autor(innen)

Woods Tim:
Tim Woods is Professor of English Literature and American Studies at the University of Wales, AberystwythTim Woods is Professor of English Literature and American Studies at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth