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| Title: | Nationalism: introduction |
| Authors: | Harrow, Kenneth W. Yewah, Emmanuel |
| Year: | 2001 |
| Periodical: | Research in African Literatures |
| Volume: | 32 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Pages: | 33-212 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Africa |
| Subjects: | nationalism literature |
| External link: | http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/research_in_african_literatures/v032/32.3harrow.pdf |
| Abstract: | A number of essays included in this issue of 'Research in African Literatures' deal with African literature and nationalism. Central question is: Where is the place of literature in a continent where the nation-State is in crisis? In his introduction, Kenneth W. Harrow advocates a more flexible model of the State and, similarly, an African literature whose cultural roots are multiple and diffuse. For Emmanuel Yewah African literary narratives are at the same crossroads as the nations themselves. Clara A.B. Joseph sees the concept of nation developing, not despite its differences, but because of them. Joanna Sullivan poses the question of whether Nigeria can have a national literature if the nation itself remains in a permanent state of transition. Francis Ngaboh-Smart argues that Nuruddin Farah refuses to privilege either nation or ethnicity. Marissa Moorman undertakes a study of the relationship between cinema and nation through a postcolonial optic. Also concentrating on cinema, Jude G. Akudinobi considers the borders of the political critique on nation and the parameters of culture within the nation. Jochen Petzold analyses Robert Kirby's 'The secret letters of Jan van Riebeeck' (1992) so as to determine the relationship between South Africa as 'Rainbow Nation' and the figure who stands as the nation's 'founding father'. Rita Barnard shows how commonality and forgetting are inextricably linked in South Africa where an examination of the past has become central to the act of moving forward as a nation. Ralph Pordzik undertakes a study of South African utopian and dystopian fiction written between 1972 and 1992. Finally, also focusing on South Africa, Heidi Grunebaum-Ralph examines how the reconstituted State seeks to find its foundations for the new nation in the narratives that have emerged through the workings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). Bibliogr., notes, ref. |
