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African Literature and the Politics of Culture

By: James Tar Tsaaior

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African Literature and the Politics of Culture

By: James Tar Tsaaior

This book essentially negotiates African literature as a veritable site of artistic and cultural production and situates it within the dynamic of postcolonial cultural politics. It critically evaluates African literature as a contour of cultural contestation with the imperial politics of knowledge production about others and as an ideological strategy for knowing them. The book’s main contribution to the critical discourse on African literature and culture inheres in the fact that politics constitutes the enduring concern of society as it re/shapes and over-determines discourses which have continued to remain crucial to societal engineering. It, however, imagines the discursive existence as necessary for the evolving of a dynamic African literary tradition with an abiding fidelity to the verities of history. The book is useful for literary scholars, historians, critics, experts and students of postcolonial/cultural studies as well as general readership interested in African studies.

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Autobiography, Memory and Nationhood in Anglophone Africa

By: David Ekanem Udoinwang,James Tar Tsaaior

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Autobiography, Memory and Nationhood in Anglophone Africa

By: David Ekanem Udoinwang,James Tar Tsaaior

This book provides an important critical analysis of the autobiographies of nine major leaders of national liberation movements in Africa. By examining their self-narratives, we can better understand how decolonisation unfolded and how activist-politicians sought to immortalise their roles for posterity. Focusing on the autobiographies of Peter Abrahams, Albert Luthuli, Ruth First and Nelson Mandela (South Africa), Nnamdi Azikiwe (Nigeria), Kenneth Kaunda (Zambia), George Mwase (Malawi), Kwame Nkrumah (Ghana), Maurice Nyagumbo (Zimbabwe), and Oginga Odinga (Kenya), the book uncovers the social and cultural forces which galvanized the anti-colonial resistance movement in African societies. In particular, the book explores the disdain for foreign domination, economic exploitation and cultural imperialism. It delves into themes of African cultural sovereignty before the colonial encounter, the disruptive presence of colonialism, the nationalist ferment against European imperial domination, the achievement of political autonomy by African nation-states and the corpus of contradictions which attended postcolonial becoming. With important insights on how these key historical figures navigated the process of self-determining nationhood in Africa, this book will be of interest to researchers of African literature, history, and politics.

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Taylor & Francis

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African Literature and the Politics of Culture

By: James Tar Tsaaior

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NIGERIAN FILM CULTURE AND THE IDEAOF THE NATION

By: James Tar Tsaaior

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NIGERIAN FILM CULTURE AND THE IDEAOF THE NATION

By: James Tar Tsaaior

Collectively, the essays brought together in this book represent a discursive confluence on Nollywood as a local film culture with a global character, aspiration and reach. The governing concern of the book is that texts, including film texts, are animated by a particular sociology and anthropology which gives them concrete existence and meaning. The book argues that Nollywood, the Nigerian video film text, is deeply rooted in the sub-soil of its social and cultural milieux. Nollywood is therefore, engaged in the relentless negotiation and re-negotiation of the everyday lives of the people against the backdrop of their cultural traditions, social contradictions and the politics of their ethnic/national identity, longing and belonging. The essays weave an intricate and delicate argument about the critical role of Nollywood to the idea of nationhood and the logic of its narration with implications for language, politics and culture in Africa. The book is a valuable addition to the critical discourse on the important place of film and cinema studies in national engineering processes.

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Adonis & Abbey Publishers Ltd

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NIGERIAN FILM CULTURE AND THE IDEAOF THE NATION

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Autobiography, Memory and Nationhood in Anglophone Africa

By: David Ekanem Udoinwang,James Tar Tsaaior

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Book's by James Tar Tsaaior

African Literature and the Politics of Culture

African Literature and the Politics of Culture

Autobiography, Memory and Nationhood in Anglophone Africa

Autobiography, Memory and Nationhood in Anglophone Africa

African Literature and the Politics of Culture

African Literature and the Politics of Culture

NIGERIAN FILM CULTURE AND THE IDEAOF THE NATION

NIGERIAN FILM CULTURE AND THE IDEAOF THE NATION

NIGERIAN FILM CULTURE AND THE IDEAOF THE NATION

NIGERIAN FILM CULTURE AND THE IDEAOF THE NATION

Autobiography, Memory and Nationhood in Anglophone Africa

Autobiography, Memory and Nationhood in Anglophone Africa

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