دانلود کتاب Indigeneity, Globalization, and African Literature: Personally Speaking

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Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Perils of a Culture-less African Literature in the Age of Globalization....Pages 3-17
Contemporary Africa and the Politics in Literature....Pages 19-41
Homecoming: African Literature and Human Development....Pages 43-54
Defining Niger Delta Literature: Preliminary Perspective on an Emerging Literature....Pages 55-73
Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart in World Literature....Pages 75-86
Front Matter....Pages 87-87
After the Nobel Prize: Wole Soyinka’s Poetic Output....Pages 89-100
An Unusual Growth: The Development of Tijan M. Sallah’s Poetry....Pages 101-117
An Insider Testimony: Odia Ofeimun and His Generation of Nigerian Poets....Pages 119-131
Traditional Izon Court and Modern Poetry: Christian Otobotekere’s Contribution....Pages 133-143
Reviving Modern African Poetry: An Argument....Pages 145-158
Front Matter....Pages 159-159
The Imperative of Experience in Poetry: An African Perspective....Pages 161-168
Indigenous Knowledge and Its Expression in the Folklore of Africa....Pages 169-181
Policy Studies, Activist Literature, and Pitching for the Masses in Nigeria....Pages 183-194
The Politics of African Literature: Production, Publishing, and Reception....Pages 195-210
Front Matter....Pages 211-211
Inviting the World into the House of Words: The Writer, His Place, People, and Audience....Pages 213-221
Personally Speaking: The Beauty I Have Seen....Pages 223-236
Revisiting an African Oral Poetic Performance: Udje Today....Pages 237-253
Performance, the New African Poetry, and My Poetry: A Commentary....Pages 255-265
Two Tributes: Chinua Achebe and Kofi Awoonor....Pages 267-271
Back Matter....Pages 273-285