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Title:Special issue on language, literature and power in the public sphere: selected papers from the 12th CODESRIA General Assembly, 2008 = Numéro spécial sur la langue, la littérature et le pouvoir dans l'espace public: avec des articles issus de la 12e assemblée générale du CODESRIA, 2008
Editor:Ambadiang, ThéophileISNI
Year:2010
Periodical:Africa Development: A Quarterly Journal of CODESRIA (ISSN 0850-3907)
Volume:35
Issue:1-2
Pages:220
Language:English
Geographic terms:Subsaharan Africa
Cameroon
Nigeria
South Africa
Zimbabwe
Subjects:sociolinguistics
language usage
literature
power
conference papers (form)
2008
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/i24482948
Abstract:The papers in this issue were earlier presented at the 12th General Assembly of Codesria (Conseil pour le développement de la recherche en sciences sociales en Afrique) which was held in Yaoundé, Cameroon, on 7-11 December 2008. The umbrella theme around which the Assembly was organized was: Governing the African Public Sphere. Contributions: Public sphere, linguistic sphericules and discourse communities in Africa (Théophile Ambadiang); Rulers against writers, writers against rulers: the failed promise of the public sphere in postcolonial Nigerian fiction (Ayo Kehinde); Trans-nationalizing the African public sphere: what role for trans-border languages? (Maimouna Barro on the Fulfulde language in West Africa); Negotiating nation-building and citizenship through the Truth and Reconciliation Committee's 'dramatic' spheres: a reading of two post-apartheid plays (Busuyi Mekusi on John Kani's 'Nothing but the truth' and Zakes Mda's 'The bells of Amersfoort'); The African public space of Dangarembga's 'Neria': a site for autochthonous feminist agency (Jessie Kabwila Kapasula); 'Up as a rabbit, down as a lion': socio-economic determinants of new idioms of power - visual case stories from urban Adamaoua, Cameroon (Lisbet Holtedahl); Towards a new map of Africa through Rastafari 'works' (Jahlani Niaah on the works of the Jamaican scholar and Rastafari thinker Mortimo Planno); The emergence of public spheres in colonial Cameroon: the case of palm wine drinking joints as 'lieux de sociabilité' in Bamenda township (Nicodemus Fru Awasom). [ASC Leiden abstract]
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