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CHINUA ACHEBE
Achebe: The Man and His Works uses the critical essay format to assess Chinua Achebe as a person, a writer and the inaugurator of the literary tradition of cultural nationalism. It progressively and thematically analyses his novels and works, comparing them with those of African literary and cultural groundbreakers in the Diaspora, including the pioneering works of Olaudah Equiano and Zora Neale Hurston The book is a unique and fresh addition to the body of writings on Africa's most respected novelist, widely acclaimed as the father of modern African literature, and generally believed to be one of the 100 most important writers of the 20th and 21st centuries. A must read!
Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebe: The Man and His Works uses the critical essay format to assess Chinua Achebe as a person, a writer and the inaugurator of the literary tradition of cultural nationalism. It progressively and thematically analyses his novels and works, comparing them with those of African literary and cultural groundbreakers in the Diaspora, including the pioneering works of Olaudah Equiano and Zora Neale Hurston The book is a unique and fresh addition to the body of writings on Africa's most respected novelist, daubed the father of modern African literature, and generally believed to be one of the 100 most important writers of the 20th and 21st centuries. A must read! Reviews of Rose Mezu's Ch...
Women in Chains
WOMEN IN CHAINS: Abandonment in love relationships in the fiction of selected West African writers by Rose Ure Mezu Francophone and Anglophone feminist and gynandrist novelists have dramatized the cause of wronged womanhood and the dehumanizing and patriarchal conditions under which the African woman is forced to function, often abandoned after explanation. Education and economic autonomy become avenues for survival for the oppressed woman. This sometimes creates harmony that sustains companionate union. The study encourages women to exercise the WILL TO CHANGE and transcend those negative strictures (polygamy, barrenness, infidelity) that destabilize homes and promote abandonment. TABLE OF ...
John Paul II and Africa
Catholic Women: Carriers of Living Water to a World that Thirsts for Peace, examines why the world lacks peace, the definition and signification of living water, who Catholic Women are, and their role as carriers of living water to a thirsty world. God is the source of living water and anyone infused with grace can be a carrier of this living water that brings eternal life. Psalm 42 captures this unquenchable thirst: "As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God. My soul thirsts for God, for the Living God. When Shall I See You face to face?" Water is life. This work will attempt to identify the source of living water, its essential qualities and the virtues of Trust (Faith), Patience, Humility, Obedience and Love which are indispensable requirements for procuring this living water that revives, cleanses, heals, quenches thirst and guarantees us a share of divine life with our Triune God.
Ken Saro-Wiwa
"The authors examine Saro-Wiwa's literary output both in terms of literary criticism and within a political framework. They give equal attention to his more public roles, including public reaction within Nigeria to his work."--BOOK JACKET.
The Politics of (M)Othering
This collection is a study of African literature framed by the central, and multi-faceted, idea of 'mother' - motherland, mothertongue, motherwit, motherhood, mothering - looking at the paradoxical location of (m)other as both central and marginal. Whilst the volume stands as a sustained feminist analysis, it engages feminist theory itself by showing how issues in feminism are, in African literature, recast in different and complex ways.
Politics of Mothering
This collection is a study of African literature framed by the central, and multi-faceted, idea of 'mother' - motherland, mothertongue, motherwit, motherhood, mothering - looking at the paradoxical location of (m)other as both central and marginal. Whilst the volume stands as a sustained feminist analysis, it engages feminist theory itself by showing how issues in feminism are, in African literature, recast in different and complex ways.
The Female Condition in the Novels of Gabonese Writer Sylvie Ntsame
This book argues that Gabonese writer Sylvie Ntsame utilizes her novels to question certain patriarchal traditions and practices in African society (such as polygyny) that, in certain contexts, tend to silence the voice of the female. Through engaging with feminist theories, among other theoretical frameworks, the author demonstrates how, in some of Ntsame’s novels, the black female body is an object of voyeurism that reduces the women to eroticized, exoticized Others. The author further argues that Ntsame counters the dystopia of racism with a depiction of idealized love through an interracial relationship, presented against the backdrop of stereotypes and myths that stifle such relationships. Ntsame does this by going back to her cultural roots, and calling for understanding between peoples of diverse ethnicities and cultures. The book makes valuable contributions to the study of Gabonese women’s writing in particular, and African women’s writing in general.
Postcolonial Imaginations and Moral Representations in African Literature and Culture
The postcolonial African culture, as it is discoursed in the academia, is largely influenced by Africa’s response to colonialism. To the degree that it is a response, it is to considerably reactive, and lacks forceful moral incentives for social critical consciousness and nation-building. Quite on the contrary, it allows especially African political leaders to luxuriate in the delusions of moral rectitude, imploring, at will, the evil of imperialism as a buffer to their disregard of their people. This book acknowledges the social and psychological devastations of colonialism on the African world. It, however, argues that the totality of African intellectual response to colonialism and West...
