BOOKS - African Literature and the Politics of Culture
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African Literature and the Politics of Culture
Author: James Tar Tsaaior
Year: January 1, 2013
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 976 KB
Language: English
Year: January 1, 2013
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 976 KB
Language: English
This book essentially negotiates African literature as a veritable site of artistic and cultural production and situates it within the dynamic of postcolonial cultural politics. It critically evaluates African literature as a contour of cultural contestation with the imperial politics of knowledge production about others and as an ideological strategy for knowing them. The book's main contribution to the critical discourse on African literature and culture inheres in the fact that politics constitutes the enduring concern of society as it re shapes and over-determines discourses which have continued to remain crucial to societal engineering. It, however, imagines the discursive existence as necessary for the evolving of a dynamic African literary tradition with an abiding fidelity to the verities of history. The book is useful for literary scholars, historians, critics, experts and students of postcolonial cultural studies as well as general readership interested in African studies.
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