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Title:Engaging with literature of commitment
Editor:Collier, GordonISNI
Year:2012
Issue:148
Pages:380
Language:English
Series:Cross/cultures (ISSN 0924-1426)
City of publisher:Amsterdam
Publisher:Rodopi
ISBN:9789042035089; 9789401207843
Geographic term:Africa
Subjects:literature
literary criticism
festschrifts (form)
About person:Geoffrey V. Davis (1943-2018)ISNI
Abstract:This volume on African literature of commitment is dedicated to German studies and exile literature scholar Geoffrey V. Davis. It was published on the occasion of his retirement from the University of Aachen. Themes covered include publishing in Africa, charisma in African drama, the rediscovery of apartheid-era literature, Truth and Reconciliation commissions, South African cinema, children's theatre in Eritrea, and the Third Chimurenga in literary anthologies. Surveyed are texts from Botswana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe. Writers discussed (or interviewed: Angela Makholwa) include Ayi Kwei Armah, Seydou Badian, J.M. Coetzee, Chielo Zona Eze, Ruth First, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Bessie Head, Ian Holding, Kavevangua Kahengua, Njabulo Ndebele, Lara Foot Newton, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Sol Plaatje, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Mongane Wally Serote, Wole Soyinka, and Edgar Wallace, together with essays on the artist Sokari Douglas Camp and the filmmaker Rayda Jacobs. The book closes with a selection of poems and a travelogue/memoir. Contributors: Jacques Alvarez-Péreyre, Stella Borg Barthet, Marcia Blumberg, Shirley Chew, Brian Crow, M.J. Daymond, Holger Ehling, Anne Fuchs, James Gibbs, Stephen Gray, Gareth Griffiths, Jürgen Jansen, Karen King-Aribisala, Elmar Lehmann, Bernt Lindfors, Mbongeni Malaba, Andrew Martin, Richard Martin, Jürgen Martini, Christine Matzke, Jane Plastow, Monika Reif-Hülser, Christiane Schlote, Frank Schulze-Engler, Jamie S. Scott, Michael Senior, John A. Stotesbury, Peter Stummer, Hamish Walker, and Brian Worsfold. [ASC Leiden abstract]
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