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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Challenging hierarchies. New York : P. Lang, c1998 (OCoLC)607003704 |
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| Named Person: | Chinua Achebe; Chinua Achebe; Chinua Achebe |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Leonard A Podis; Yakubu Saaka |
| ISBN: | 0820437107 9780820437101 |
| OCLC Number: | 36892702 |
| Description: | xiii, 326 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: Challenging Hierarchies -- I. The African Woman Writer as "Killjoy": Understanding Her Challenge(s). Literature, Feminism, and the African Woman Today / Ama Ata Aidoo. The Woman Artist in Africa Today: A Critical Commentary / Micere Mugo. The South End of a North-South Writers' Dialogue: Two Letters from a Postcolonial Feminist "Exmatriate" / Micere Mugo. The Genesis of "Male-ing Names in the Sun" / Ama Ata Aidoo. Male-ing Names in the Sun / Ama Ata Aidoo. Beside Every Good Woman Was a Good Man / Vincent O. Odamtten -- II. A Critical Debate on Achebe's Depiction of Women. From Stereotype to Individuality: Womanhood in Chinua Achebe's Novels / Chioma Opara. Achebe's Women: Mothers, Priestesses, and Young Urban Professionals / Catherine Bicknell. Gender Relations and Critical Mediation: From Things Fall Apart to Anthills of the Savannah / Obioma Nnaemeka -- III. Eurocentric Challenges to Colonialism: Reexamining the Role of Imperialist Literature. Criticizing the Critic: Achebe on Conrad / Olusegun Adekoya. Narrative Distancing and the (De)Construction of Imperialist Consciousness in "The Man Who Would Be King" and Heart of Darkness / Leonard A. Podis -- IV. Afrocentric Challenges to Colonial and Postcolonial Hegemony. Nationalism and Pan-Africanism in Ghanaian Writing: The Examples of Ottobah Cugoano, Joseph E. Casely-Hayford, and Ayi Kwei Armah / Chris Kwame Awuyah. IntroBlues: A Poetic Voyage into SoulTime / Kofi Anyidoho. Sojourners in the Lands of Former Colonizers / Vincent O. Odamtten. Representations of Cultural Ambivalence: The Portrayal of Sons and Daughters in Postcolonial African Literature / Yakubu Saaka and Leonard A. Podis -- V. Envisioning Successful Challenges: Shapes of the New Order. Anthills of the Savannah and Petals of Blood: The Creation of a Usable Past / Leonard A. Podis and Yakubu Saaka. Marginality as the Third Term: A Reading of Kane's Ambiguous Adventure / Obioma Nnaemeka. |
| Series Title: | Society and politics in Africa, v. 5. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Leonard A. Podis and Yakubu Saaka. |
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Abstract:
Challenging Hierarchies explores the provocative and compelling work of African authors, from the writing of eighteenth-century social critic Ottobah Cugoano to that of contemporary novelists Chinua Achebe, Tsitsi Dangarembga, and Ben Okri. The book focuses on challenges to colonial and neo-colonial oppression, with a special emphasis on African feminism and the work of women writers.
Combining criticism, fiction, and creative autobiography, Challenging Hierarchies reflects the vital spirit of African literature and literary studies today.
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- African literature -- History and criticism.
- African literature (English) -- History and criticism.
- Achebe, Chinua -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Postcolonialism in literature.
- Postcolonialism -- Africa.
- Achebe, Chinua -- Crítica e interpretación.
- Literatura africana (Inglés) -- Historia y crítica.
- Achebe, Chinua.
- Entkolonialisierung <Motiv>
- Frauenliteratur.
- Literatur.
- Afrika.
- Englisch.
