Indigeneity, Globalization, and African Literature: Personally Speaking

by Tanure Ojaide

Overview

Literature remains one of the few disciplines that reflect the experiences, sensibility, worldview, and living realities of its people. Contemporary African literature captures the African experience in history and politics in a multiplicity of ways. Politics itself has come to intersect and impact on most, if not all, aspects of the African reality. This relationship of literature with African people’s lives and condition forms the setting of this study. Tanure Ojaide’s Indigeneity, Globalization, and African Literature: Personally Speaking belongs with a well-established tradition of personal reflections on literature by African creative writer-critics. Ojaide’s contribution brings to the table the perspective of what is now recognized as a “second generation” writer, a poet, and a concerned citizen of Nigeria’s Niger Delta area.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137542205
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	10/06/2015
Series:	African Histories and Modernities
Edition description:	1st ed. 2015
Pages:	285
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

Tanure Ojaide is Frank Porter Graham Professor in the Africana Studies Department at the University of North Carolina, USA.

Table of Contents

Introduction

1. The Black Nationalist Movement in Azania

2. BC and its Fortunes After 1976

3. BC in the Postapartheid Era
4. Some Considerations in a Youth Political Movement

5. Youth Politics, Agency and Subjectivity

6. The Social Construction of Blackness in Azania

7. The Black Middle Class and Black Struggles

8. Culture and History in the Black Struggles for Liberation

9. Collaboration, Complicity and “Selling – Out”

In South Africa Historiography

10. Transference and Re (de) placement and

The edge Towards a Postcolonial Conundrum
11. The Idea of the Nation in South Africa, 1940 to post 1994:

Conceptualisations from the Black Liberation Movement

12. Symbols, Symbolism and the New Social Order

Editorial Reviews

A frank and passionate celebration and defense of the dignity and desirability of the indigenous in an age of specious globalization. Literate, up-to-date, and wide-ranging, Indigeneity, Globalization, and African Literature is a welcome intervention by one of the most assiduous workers in the vineyard of African letters.”
-Niyi Osundare, Distinguished Professor, University of New Orleans, USA

“A thoughtful, lucid, and much needed exploration of the dynamics of African literature in general and Nigerian literature in particular, with special reference to indigeneity and the pressures of globalization! The book is especially significant as coming from the pen of someone who has experienced the impact of various cultures and is himself actively involved in literary production.”
-Eustace Palmer, Professor of English, Georgia College, USA

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