Readings in African popular fiction
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Readings in African popular fiction
International African Institute in association with James Currey, c2002
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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: pbk ISBN 9780253215109
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"... a useful introduction to an important field of African creative writing that has been invisible for the most part in North America and Europe."
--Eileen Julien
Readings in African Popular Fiction explores the social, political, and economic contexts of popular narratives by bringing together new and classic essays by important scholars in African literature and eight primary texts. Excerpts from popular magazines, cartoons, novellas, and moral and instructional pamphlets present African popular fiction from all areas of the continent. Selections include essays on Hausa creative writing, the influence of Indian film in Nigeria, Onitsha market literature, writing and popular culture in Cameroon, Kenyan romances, Swahili literature, art and cartoons, works by South African writers of the 1950s, and popular crime thrillers in Malawi. Stephanie Newell's introduction engages themes and trends in popular fiction in contemporary Africa.
Contributors are J. C. Anorue, Misty Bastian, Felicitas Becker, Richard Bjornson, William Burgess, Michael Chapman, Don Dodson, Dorothy Driver, Roger Field, Bodil Folke Frederiksen, Graham Furniss, Raoul Granqvist, Paul Gready, Ime Ikiddeh, J. Roger Kurtz and Robert M. Kurtz, Alex La Guma, Brian Larkin, Bernth Lindfors, Charles Mangua, Gomolemo Mokae, Ben R. Mtobwa, Njabulo Ndebele, Nici Nelson, Stephanie Newell, Sarah Nuttall, Donatus Nwoga, Alain Ricard, Lindy Stiebel, and Balaraba Ramat Yakubu.
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: James Currey paper : pbk ISBN 9780852555644
Description
Draws together primary texts and a range of analytical perspectives on African popular fiction.
Broadening the view of what is considered to be African literature this text brings together examples from a wide range of African popular fiction and provides a useful reference tool for students.
Includes eight primary texts including examples from Drum magazine, Alex la Guma's Little Libby - the comic strips of the Adventures of Liberation Chabalala, and extracts from popular fiction novels, novellas and short stories.
Contributors also examine the social, political and economic contexts of popular narratives.
STEPHANIE NEWELL is now Professor of English at the University of Sussex
Contributors include: GRAHAM FURNISS, BRAIN LARKIN, DONATUS NWOGA, MISTY BASTIAN, ALAIN RICARD, RAOUL GRANQVISt, BERNTH LINDFORS, BODIL FOLKE FREDERIKSEN, J. ROGER KURTZ & ROBERT M. KURTZ, NICI NELSON, DOROTHY DRIVER, NJABULO NDEBELE, ROGER FIELD, SARAH NUTTALL
Published inassociation with the International African Institute
North America: Indiana U Press
Table of Contents
- Intoduction, Stephanie Newell. Part 1 West Africa: Hausa creative writing in the 1930s - an exploration in postcolonial theory, Graham Furniss
- Indian films and Nigerian lovers - media and the creation of parallel modernities, Brian Larkin
- primary text 1 - excerpts from soyayya pamphlet Balaraba Ramat Yakubu, Alhaki Kwikiyo(?)
- Onitsha market literature, Donatus Nwoga
- the role of the publisher in Onitsha market literature, Don Dodson
- primary text 2 - extracts from J.C. Anorue, "How to Become Rich and Avoid Poverty"
- irregular visitors - narratives about "ogbaanje" (spirit children) in southern Nigerian popular writing, Misty Bastian
- Felix Couchoro - pioneer of popular writing in West Africa?, Alain Ricard
- writing and popular culture in Cameroon, Richard Bjornson
- the character of popular fiction in Ghana, Ime Ikiddeh. Part 2 East Africa: storylines, spellbinders and heartbeats - decentering the African oral-popular discourse, Raoul Granqvist
- romances for the office worker - Aubrey Kalitera and Malawi's white-collar reading public, Bernth Lindfors
- "Joe", the sweetest reading in Africa - documentation and discussion of a popular magazine in Kenya, Bodil Folke Frederiksen
- primary text 3 - facsimiles of cartoons, stories and covers from "Joe" magazine
- representations of men and women, city and town in Kenyan novels of the 1970s and 1980s, Nici Nelson
- primary text 4 - excerpts from Charles Mangua, "Son of Woman"
- the Swahili novel and the common man in East Africa, Euphrase Kezilahabi
- language and ideology in postcolonial Kenyan literature - the case of David Maillu's macronic fiction?, J. Robert Kurtz and Robert M. Kurts
- primary text 5 - excerpts from Ben R. Mtobwa's "Dar es Salaam Usiku (Dar es Salaam by Night)". Part 3 Southern Africa: rediscovery of the ordinary, Njabulo Ndebele
- African popular fiction - consideration of a category?, Michael Chapman
- the Sophiatown writers of the 50s - the unreal reality of their world, Paul Gready
- "Drum" magazine (1951-59) and the spatial configurations of gender, Dorothy Driver
- primary text 6 -facsimiles of covers, articles and letters from "Drum" magazine
- La Guma's "Little Libby" - the adventures of liberation Chabalala, Roger Field
- primary text 7 - artwork of "Little Libby" cartoon strips
- reading lives, Sarah Nuttall
- popular crime thrillers by black authors in South Africa, Lindy Stiebel
- primary text 8 -excerpts from South African crime thriller "The Secret in My Bosom", Gomolemo Mokai.
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