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African Visions Literary Images, Political Change, and Social Struggle in Contemporary Africa
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Cheryl B. Mwaria, Silvia Federici, Joseph McLaren
Prepared under the auspices of Hofstra University
Book Code: B7102
ISBN: 0-275-97102-3
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-97102-1
304 pages
Praeger Paperback
Publication: 8/30/2000
List Price: $45.00 (UK Sterling Price: £25.95)
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Media Type: Paperback
Also Available: Hardcover
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  • ...provide the reader with an excellent view of literature and the humanities within the ever-changing economic and political landscape.
    —African Studies Review
Description: The complexity of African society entering the 21st century necessitates an interdisciplinary examination of Africa's political, social, and cultural developments and challenges. Focusing on "Social Movements" and "Literature, Social Change and Culture," the book brings together a wide range of essays by committed scholars, writers, and activists concerned with progressive approaches to Africa's dilemmas. Beginning with an overview by anthropologist Cheryl Mwaria, African Visions addresses such issues as structural adjustments, religious freedom, human rights, democratization, educational movements, and health care. Particular analyses consider intellectual property, student activism, and the AIDS epidemic. Mwaria, Federici, and McLaren also explore the way social and cultural questions have been treated in literary works and theoretical studies dealing with hybridity, sexual politics, literacy, socialist orientations, and language. Noted literary scholars Odun Balogun and Alamin Mazrui consider aspects of these issues. The collection also examines trends in literature, publishing, and theater in such countries as Algeria, Niger, Nigeria, and South Africa in relation to themes such as gender, popular culture, African novels, and protest. Highlighting articles by two of Africa's leading activist/writers Dennis Brutus of South Africa, stressing regional cooperation, and Ngûgî wa Thiong'o of Kenya, advocating African languages, African Visions avoids the pessimism associated with numerous 20th century studies. Brutus and Ngûgî consider the economic and cultural effects of globalization and the necessity for promoting self-determination. An essential resource for all scholars and students concerned with contemporary African life and culture.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Social Movements
  • Poem: What Is the Soul of Africa by Dennis Brutus
  • Africa 2000: In the New Global Context by Dennis Brutus
  • The International Intellectual Property Regime and the Enclosure of African Knowledge by C. George Caffentzis
  • Mijikenda Perspectives on Religious Freedom and Cultural "Rights" by Diane Ciekawy
  • Structural Adjustment and the African Diaspora in Italy, by Steven Colatrella
  • The New African Student Movement by Silvia Federici
  • Academic Pursuits under the Link, by Karim F. Hirji
  • Democratization and Interventionism in Francaphone Sub-Saharan Africa by Francois Ngolet
  • A Vision of the Past as a Beacon for the Future: The Application of Fatimid Ideals in the City of Cairo by Habibeh Rahim
  • Women, AIDS and the Female Condom: Preventing HIV in Southern Africa by Ida Susser
  • Literature, Social Change, and Culture
  • Poem: The Monstrous Instrument by Maina Kinyatti
  • African Languages and Global Culture in the 21st Century by Ngûgî wa Thiong'o
  • Hybridity, Neouniversalist Cultural Theory, and the Comparative Study of Black Literatures by F. Odun Balogun
  • White Women, Black Revolutionaries: Sex and Politics in Four Novels by Nancy Topping Bazin
  • Popular Hausa Drama in Niger and the Politics of Its Appropriation by Ousseina Alidou Doula
  • Developmental Pleasures, Education, Entertainment, and Popular Literacy in South Africa by Loren Kruger
  • Socialist Oriented Literature in Post-Colonial Africa: Retrospective and Prospective by Alamin M. Mazrui
  • The Nigerian Novel in English: Trends and Prospects by Joseph McLaren
  • Writing In and Out of Algeria, Writing Algeria, Today by Soraya Mekerta
  • Post-Apartheid Drama by Donald Morales
  • Index
LC Card Number: 99-043520
LCC Class: DT14
Dewey Class: 960
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