African Literatures and Beyond

A Florilegium

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Volume Editor:
Bernth Lindfors
and
Geoffrey V. Davis
This tribute collection reflects the wide range and diversity of James Gibbs’s academic interests. The focus is on Africa, but comparative studies of other literatures also receive attention. Fiction, drama, and poetry by writers from Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Eritrea, Malawi, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Ireland, England, Germany, India, and the Caribbean are surveyed alongside significant missionaries, scientists, performers, and scholars. The writers discussed include Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe, Kobina Sekyi, Raphael Armattoe, J.E. Casely Hayford, Michael Dei-Anang, Kofi Awoonor, Ayi Kwei Armah, John Kolosa Kargbo, Dele Charley, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Okot p’Bitek, Jonathan Sajiwandani, Samuel E. Krune Mqhayi, A.S. Mopeli–Paulus, Kelwyn Sole, Anna Seghers, Raja Rao, and Arundhati Roy. Other essays treat the black presence in Ireland, anonymous rap artists in Chicago, the Jamaican missionary Joseph Jackson Fuller in the Cameroons, the African-American actor Ira Aldridge in Sweden, the Swedish naturalist Anders Sparrman in South Africa, and the literary scholar and editor Eldred Durosimi Jones in Sierra Leone. Interviews with the Afro-German Africanist Theodor Wonja Michael and the Irish-Nigerian dramatist Gabriel Gbadamosi are also included. Also offered are poems by Jack Mapanje and Kofi Anyidoho, short stories by Charles R. Larson and Robert Fraser, plays by Femi Osofisan and Martin Banham, and an account of a dramatic reading of a script written and co-performed by James Gibbs.
Contributors: Anne Adams, Sola Adeyemi, Kofi Anyidoho, Awo Mana Asiedu, Martin Banham, Eckhard Breitinger, Gordon Collier, James Currey, Geoffrey V. Davis, Chris Dunton, Robert Fraser, Raoul J. Granqvist, Gareth Griffiths, C.L. Innes, Charles R. Larson, Bernth Lindfors, Leif Lorentzon, Jack Mapanje, Christine Matzke, Mpalive–Hangson Msiska, Femi Osofisan, Eustace Palmer, Jane Plastow, Lynn Taylor, and Pia Thielmann.
Copyright Year:
2013
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Publisher ISBN:
978-94-012-0989-2
Publication date:
01 Jan 2013
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978-90-420-3738-0
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01 Jan 2013
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Preliminary Material
编者： Bernth Lindfors and Geoffrey V. Davis
页码： i–xii
Cultural Studies, Power, and the Idea of the Hegemonic in Wole Soyinka’s Works
著者： Mpalive Hangson Msiska
页码： 1–28
Interpreting the Interpreters: The Narratives of the Postcolony in Wole Soyinka’s The Interpreters
著者： Sola Adeyemi
页码： 29–38
The Enduring Relevance of Kobina Sekyi’s The Blinkards in Twenty-First-Century Ghana
著者： Awo Mana Asiedu
页码： 39–54
The Agony and the Ecstasy: Sierra Leonean Dramatists’ Confrontation with the Sierra Leonean Landscape
著者： Eustace Palmer
页码： 55–67
The Rev. Joseph Jackson Fuller: A ‘Native’ Evangelist and ‘Black’ Identity in the Cameroons
著者： Gareth Griffiths
页码： 69–87
A Modest Plant, Easily Crushed: Radio Drama in Blin, Eritrea
著者： Jane Plastow
页码： 89–101
Through Determination to Happiness?: Eastern African Slavery in Life and Literature
著者： Pia Thielmann
页码： 103–120
“Shine your light, Zimbabwe”
著者： Geoffrey V. Davis
页码： 121–134
From Mqhayi to Sole: Four Poems on the Sinking of the Troopship Mendi
著者： Chris Dunton
页码： 135–148
Fieldwork as Translation: Linnaeus’ Apostle Anders Sparrman and the Hottentot Perspective
著者： Raoul J. Granqvist
页码： 149–176
Orality and Performance: A Source of Pan-African Social Self
著者： Kofi Anyidoho
页码： 177–193
Africans and Ireland History, Society, and the Black Nexus
著者： Innes C.L. and Collier Gordon
页码： 195–216
Ira Aldridge in Stockholm
著者： Bernth Lindfors
页码： 217–237
“Who’ll get my library after I’m gone?”: An Interview with the Septuagenarian Afro-German Africanist Theodor Wonja Michael
著者： Anne Adams
页码： 239–255
Into the Heart of Whiteness: Performing African Moon in Krefeld: Gabriel Gbadamosi in Conversation
著者： Christine Matzke
页码： 257–269
Von Jenseits des Meeres: Romantic and Revolutionary Visions of Caribbean History
著者： Eckhard Breitinger
页码： 271–299
“But it will have to be a new English”: A Comparative Discussion of the ‘Nativization’ of English among Afro- and Indo-English authors
著者： Leif Lorentzon
页码： 301–315
African Literature Today and African Theatre The James Gibbs Connection
著者： Currey James and Lynn Taylor
页码： 317–339
He Spoke Truth – Quietly
著者： Kofi Anyidoho
页码： 341–342
The Carwash, Clifton Moor, York: (For James & Patience)
著者： Jack Mapanje
页码： 343–344
Crosscut
著者： Charles R. Larson
页码： 345–348
Kariba’s Last Stand
著者： Robert Fraser
页码： 349–361
Odùduwà, Don’t Go!: A One-Act Play For Col. Adékúnlé Fajuyi, who gave his life
著者： Femi Osofisan
页码： 363–384
Mosquito!: Or, Addition, Vernacular, or Rat? A Railway for Freetown
著者： Martin Banham
页码： 385–414
James Gibbs’s Pinteresque Diversion
著者： C.L. Innes
页码： 415–416
Notes on Contributors
编者： Bernth Lindfors and Geoffrey V. Davis
页码： 417–426
Geoffrey V. Davis co-edits the series Cross/Cultures and the African studies journal Matatu. Recent publications include Narrating Nomadism and African Literatures: Post-colonial Literatures in English: Sources and Resources (both co-ed. 2013). Bernth Lindfors, founding editor of the journal Research in African Literatures, is writing a biography of Ira Aldridge (two volumes have so far appeared: The Early Years, 1807–1833 and The Vagabond Years, 1833–1852, both 2011).
Preface
Introduction
West Africa
Mpalive–Hangson Msiska: Cultural Studies, Power, and the Idea of the Hegemonic in Wole Soyinka’s Works
Sola Adeyemi: Interpreting the Interpreters: The Narratives of the Postcolony in Wole Soyinka’s The Interpreters
Awo Mana Asiedu: The Enduring Relevance of Kobina Sekyi’s The Blinkards in Twenty-First-Century Ghana
Eustace Palmer: The Agony and the Ecstasy: Sierra Leonean Dramatists’ Confrontation with the Sierra Leonean Landscape
Gareth Griffiths: The Reverend Joseph Jackson Fuller: A ‘Native’ Evangelist and ‘Black’ Identity in the Cameroons
Eastern and Central Africa
Jane Plastow: A Modest Plant, Easily Crushed: Radio Drama in Blin, Eritrea
Pia Thielmann: Through Determination to Happiness? Eastern African Slavery in Life and Literature
Geoffrey V. Davis: “Shine your light, Zimbabwe”
South Africa
Chris Dunton: From Mqhayi to Sole: Four Poems on the Sinking of the Troopship Mendi
Raoul J. Granqvist: Fieldwork as Translation: Linnaeus’ Apostle Anders Sparrman and the Hottentot Perspective
Elsewhere
Kofi Anyidoho: Orality and Performance: A Source of Pan-African Social Self
C.L. Innes and Gordon Collier: Africans and Ireland: History, Society, and the Black Nexus
Bernth Lindfors: Ira Aldridge in Stockholm
Anne Adams: “Who’ll get my library after I’m gone?” An Interview with the Septuagenarian Afro-German Africanist Theodor Wonja Michael
Christine Matzke: Into the Heart of Whiteness: Performing African Moon in Krefeld: Gabriel Gbadamosi in Conversation
Eckhard Breitinger: Von Jenseits des Meeres: Romantic and Revolutionary Visions of Caribbean History
Leif Lorentzon: “But it will have to be a new English”: A Comparative Discussion of the ‘Nativization’ of English Among Afro- and Indo-English Authors
Journals
James Currey and Lynn Taylor: African Literature Today and African Theatre: The James Gibbs Connection
Poetry, Fiction, Drama
Kofi Anyidoho: He Spoke Truth – Q u i e t l y
Jack Mapanje: The Carwash, Clifton Moor, York (for James & Patience)
Charles R. Larson: Crosscut
Robert Fraser : Kariba’s Last Stand
Femi Osofisan: Odùduwà, Don’t Go! A One-Act Play
Martin Banham: Mosquito! Or, Addition, Vernacular, or Rat? A Railway for Freetown
C.L. Innes: James Gibbs’s Pinteresque Diversion
Notes on Contributors
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出版社:
Brill
Language:
英语
Extent:
xii, 426 pp.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789401209892

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