1. African Literature - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia African literature refers to literature of and from Africa. As George Joseph notes on the first page of his chapter on African literature in Understanding Contemporary Africa http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_literature

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African literature Article in other languages: Afrikanische Literatur Literatura africana Afrikar literatura Littérature africaine ... Your Ad Here African literature refers to literature of and from Africa . As George Joseph notes on the first page of his chapter on African literature in Understanding Contemporary Africa , while the European perception of literature generally refers to written letters, the African concept includes oral literature. As George Joseph continues, while European views of literature often stressed a separation of art and content, African awareness is inclusive: "Literature" can also imply an artistic use of words for the sake of art alone. Without denying the important role of aesthetics in Africa, we should keep in mind that, traditionally, Africans do not radically separate art from teaching. Rather than write or sing for beauty in itself, African writers, taking their cue from oral literature, use beauty to help communicate important truths and information to society. Indeed, an object is considered beautiful because of the truths it reveals and the communities it helps to build. Contents Oral literature Precolonial literature Colonial African literature Postcolonial African literature ... External links Oral literature Oral literature (or orature ) may be in prose or verse. The prose is often mythological or historical and can include tales of the trickster character. Storytellers in Africa sometimes use call-and-response techniques to tell their stories. Poetry, often sung, includes: narrative epic, occupational verse, ritual verse, praise poems to rulers and other prominent people. Praise singers, bards sometimes known as "

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zWASL=1 zGL='0';zGR='ca-about-radlink'; zJs=10 zJs=11 zJs=12 zJs=13 zc(5,'jsc',zJs,9999999,'') zDO=0 Home Education Classic Literature Classic Literature Search Classic Literature Filed In: World Literature To find out more information about books from Africa, take a look at these resources. Read more about African literature like Cry the Beloved Country , and other works. African Myth @ African Writers @ Africa's 100 Best Books Alistair Boddy-Evans writes, "In response to the predominantly Anglo-Saxon nature of the Modern Library Board's list (only three authors were non-native English speakers), the African Top 100 has examples from several languages. However the majority are in English and many of the others are available in translation." zSB(3,3) Criticism of African Literature African literature is discussed from the "feminist" perspective here. Cry the Beloved Country - Alan Paton Alan Paton began writing "Cry the Beloved Country" in a hotel room in Norway while he was undertaking a world-wide survey of correctional facilities. Once he'd started writing in a flood of emotion, it only took him three months to finish the book. The book was met with immediate success, and it has been popular in and out of the classroom ever since. In the World of African Literatures Find out about women authors, works and read interviews on this site. There is also a bibliography of women writers.

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Literature of South Africa From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Redirected from South African literature Jump to: navigation search South Africa This article is part of the series: Culture of South Africa Art Cinema Cuisine ... edit South African literature is the literature of South Africa which has 11 national languages, Afrikaans English Zulu Xhosa ... Tsonga , and Ndebele Contents Overview Afrikaans Poetry Prose ... edit Overview Elleke Boehmer (cf. Cullhed, 2006: 79) writes, “Nationalism, like patriarchy, favours singleness—one identity, one growth pattern, one birth and blood for all . . . [and] will promote specifically unitary or ‘one-eyed’ forms of consciousness.” The first problem any student of South African literature is confronted with, is the diversity of the literary systems Gerrit Olivier notes, "While it is not unusual to hear academics and politicians talk about a 'South African literature', the situation at ground level is characterised by diversity and even fragmentation". Robert Mossman adds that "One of the enduring and saddest legacies of the apartheid system may be that no one - White, Black, Coloured (meaning of mixed-race in South Africa), or Asian - can ever speak as a "South African." The problem, however, pre-dates Apartheid significantly, as South Africa is a country made up of communities that have always been linguistically and culturally diverse. These cultures have all retained autonomy to some extent, making a compilation such as the controversial Southern African Literatures

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16. South African Literature - SouthAfrica.info An overview of the main currents in South African literature, from Olive Schreiner s depiction of life on isolated Karoo farms to more recent work that tackles the aftermath of apartheid. http://www.southafrica.info/ess_info/sa_glance/culture/literature.htm

Home Sitemap Contact us Arts and culture South African literature South Africa has had a rich history of literary output. Until relatively recently, realism dominated the production of fiction in South Africa - perhaps authors felt an overriding concern to capture the country's turbulent history and the experiences of its people. Fiction has been written in all of South Africa's 11 official languages - with a large body of work in Afrikaans, in particular - but this overview focuses primarily on English fiction, though it also touches on major poetic developments. The colonial adventure The first fictional works to emerge from South Africa were produced by immigrants who often felt alienated from the South African landscape - at the same time as they were fascinated by its often harsh beauty. These colonial writers were unsettled and intrigued by what they perceived to be exotic elements of indigenous cultures. Their attitude to indigenous South Africans was, at best, ambivalent, if not outright hostile. This is especially true of the writers of adventure-type stories, in which colonial heroes are romanticised and the role of black South Africans was reduced to that of enemy or servant. One such writer was Rider Haggard, who wrote many mythical and adventure stories, beginning in the early 1880s. His most famous book is

17. African Literature And Writers On The Internet Achebe Conference HARVEST OF CHINUA ACHEBE 50 years of 'THINGS FALL APART, August 8-9, 2008 Houston, Texas. Conference sponsored by USAfrica (newspaper based in Houston http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/lit.html

Countries Topics Search the Africa Pages Suggest a Site ... Topics: African Literature and Writers on the Internet See also: South Africa Literature Linguistics Special Events African Literature Assoc.(U.S.) Conference 2011 Europe International Literature Festival Berlin (September 2010) Achebe Conference - HARVEST OF CHINUA ACHEBE : 50 years of 'THINGS FALL APART, August 8-9, 2008 Houston, Texas. Conference sponsored by USAfrica (newspaper based in Houston, Texas). http://www.usafricaonline.com/usafrica15.html Achebe, Chinua - Bill Barrett Links to web sites about Achebe. Maintained by an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronic and Photographic Media, School of Communications, Webster University, St. Louis. http://www.websteruniv.edu/~barrettb/achebe.htm See also: Pegasos: Literature Related Resources - Has a biography and reading list for Chinua Achebe. From the Kuusankoski Public Library, Finland. http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ and Dr. Joseph Mbele's study guide on Achebe, Notes on Achebe's Things Fall Apart (35 p. for sale on-line at Lulu.com).

18. African Literature Niyi Afolabi. Golden Cage Regeneration in Lusophone African Literature and Culture. Africa World Press. 2001. 256pp. Ahmed S. Bangura. Islam and the West African Novel The http://www.nndb.com/topics/581/000178047/

This is a beta version of NNDB Search: All Names Living people Dead people Band Names Book Titles Movie Titles Full Text for African Literature BIBLIOGRAPHY See also Literature and African Culture Niyi Afolabi Golden Cage: Regeneration in Lusophone African Literature and Culture . Africa World Press. Ahmed S. Bangura Islam and the West African Novel: The Politics of Representation . Lynne Rienner Publishers. Rand Bishop African Literature, African Critics: The Forming of Critical Standards, 1947-1966 . Greenwood Press. David Cook African Literature: A Critical View . Longman. O. R. Dathorne The Black Mind: A History of African Literature . University of Minnesota Press. Phanuel Akubueze Egejuru Black Writers, White Audience: A Critical Approach to African Literature . Hicksville, NY: Exposition Press. Ernest N. Emenyonu (editor) Goatskin Bags and Wisdom: New Critical Perspectives on African Literature . Africa World Press. Edmund L. Epstein; Robert Kole (editor) The Language of African Literature . Africa World Press. Shatto Arthur Gakwandi The Novel and Contemporary Experience in Africa . Africana Publishing Co.. Daniel Gover; John Conteh-Morgan; Jane Bryce (editor)

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var isReferenceAnswers = true; BodyLoad('s'); On this page Library Animal Life Health History, Politics, Society ... Technology African literature Columbia Encyclopedia: African literature Home Library Miscellaneous Columbia Encyclopedia African literature, literary works of the African continent. African literature consists of a body of work in different languages and various genres, ranging from oral literature to literature written in colonial languages (French, Portuguese, and English). See also African languages South African literature Oral literature, including stories, dramas, riddles, histories, myths, songs, proverbs, and other expressions, is frequently employed to educate and entertain children. Oral histories, myths, and proverbs additionally serve to remind whole communities of their ancestors' heroic deeds, their past, and the precedents for their customs and traditions. Essential to oral literature is a concern for presentation and oratory. Folktale tellers use call-response techniques. A griot (praise singer) will accompany a narrative with music. Some of the first African writings to gain attention in the West were the poignant slave narratives, such as

20. African Languages & Literature @ UW-Madison Includes a bibliography of African literature. http://african.lss.wisc.edu/all/

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