Lokangaka Losambe

Postcolonial Agency in African and Diasporic Literature and Film (eBook, ePUB)

A Study in Globalectics

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book chronicles the rise and the development of postcolonial agency since Africa's encounter with Western modernity through African and African diaspora literature and film.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000532906
• Artikelnr.: 63095594

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
ACKNOWLEGDEMENTS *
INTRODUCTION *
I. THE ENSLAVED AFRICAN AND POSTCOLONIAL AGENCY *
1. Olaudah Equiano's The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah
Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, The African, Written by Himself; Haile Gerima's
Sankofa (film); Amma Asante's Belle (film) *
II. THE BLACK AMERICAN STRANGER AND POSTCOLONIAL AGENCY IN AFRICA: THE
CONGO NARRATIVE *
2. The Anti-Enslavement/-Colonial Activist: George Washington Williams
(1849-1891) *
3. The Postcolonial Pragmatist: William Henry Sheppard (1865-1927) *
4. The Other Allies *
III. ARTICULATIONS OF POSTCOLONIAL AGENCY IN CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN
LITERATURE *
5. The Colonial Encounter and Postcolonial Agency in Wole Soyinka's Death
and the King's Horseman and Dani Kouyaté's Keita! L'éritage du Griot
(Film) *
6. Postcolonial Conjunctive Consciousness in the Literature of the New
African Diaspora: Chris Abani's The Virgin of Flames, Chimamanda Ngozi
Adichie's Americanah, Leila Aboulela's The Translator *
CODA: Francis Abiola Irele and the African Imagination *
BIBLIOGRAPHY *
FILMOGRAPHY *
INDEX *