African literary NGOs power, politics, and participation

Zugl.: Frankfurt (Main), Univ., Diss., 2012

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Veröffentlicht: Basingstoke Palgrave Macmillan 2013
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Zusammenfassung:Zugl.: Frankfurt (Main), Univ., Diss., 2012
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 twenty-first 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 Conclusions and future scenarios of the African LINGO in the twenty-first century
Beschreibung:XII, 243 S.
ISBN:9781137334046
978-1-137-33404-6
1137334045
1-137-33404-5