African pasts: Memory and history in African literatures
ISBN-13:
9780719064944
ISBN-10:
0719064945
Edition:
Reprint
Author:
Tim Woods
Publication date:
2012
Publisher:
Manchester University Press
Format:
Paperback
304 pages
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ISBN-13:
9780719064944
ISBN-10:
0719064945
Edition:
Reprint
Author:
Tim Woods
Publication date:
2012
Publisher:
Manchester University Press
Format:
Paperback
304 pages
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African pasts: Memory and history in African literatures (ISBN-13: 9780719064944 and ISBN-10: 0719064945), written by authors
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African pasts examines African literatures in English since the end of colonialism, investigating how they represents African history through the twin matrices of memory and trauma. Inextricably tied up with the historical conditions of Africa's colonisation, charting the emergence of its independence, and scrutinising Africa's contemporary neo-colonial and postcolonial states as a legacy of the colonial past, African literatures are continually preoccupied with exploring modes of representation to 'work through' their different traumatic colonial pasts. Among other issues, this book deals with literature in the era of apartheid, the post-apartheid aftermath, metafictional experiments in African fiction, gender representation in reaction to the trauma of colonialism and 'imprisonment narratives'. African pasts covers a wide range of African literatures and a cross-section of genres - fiction, poetry, prison-narratives, postcolonial theory - and embraces such well-known writers as Soyinka, Coetzee, Ngugi and Achebe, and more recent writers such as Nuruddin Farah, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Achmat Dangor, Etienne van Heerden, Zakes Mda, Gillian Slovo and Calixthe Beyala.
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