Re-imagining Africa : new critical perspectives / Sue Kossew and Dianne Schwerdt, editors.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Horizons in post-colonial studies.
Corporate Author: African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific. Annual Conference
Other Authors: Kossew, Sue
Schwerdt, Dianne
Language:English
Published: Huntington, N.Y. : Nova Science Publishers, [2001], ©2001.
Series:Horizons in post-colonial studies.
Subjects:
Africa > Civilization > 20th century > Congresses.
African fiction > 20th century > History and criticism > Congresses.
Africa > In literature > Congresses.
Genre:
Congresses.
Physical Description:vi, 227 pages ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Ch. 1. Introduction / Sue Kossew and Dianne Schwerdt
  • Ch. 2. A century of Conrad's Heart of darkness / Peter Mwikisa
  • Ch. 3. Monstering the interior: internal journeys over external landscapes / Dianne Schwerdt
  • Ch. 4. Dictating currents and the questioning of tyranny in Africa: an intertextual study of Fémi Osófisan's Yungba-Yungba and the dance contest / Solá Adéyemi
  • Ch. 5. Between ancestries and amarapurs: immigrant asianness in M.G. Vassanji's fiction / Dan Odhiambo Ojwang
  • Ch. 6. Social suffering and the politics of pain: observations on the concentration camps in the Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902 / Jenny de Reuck
  • Ch. 7. "Voices from the past": the depiction of the Khoisan in contemporary Afrikaans historical novels / Luc Renders
  • Ch. 8. "A white fly on the sombre windowpane": the construction of Africa and identity in Breyten Breytenbach's poetry / Louise Viljoen
  • Ch. 9. "Something terrible happened": Nadine Gordimer's The house gun and the politics of violence and recovery in post-Apartheid South Africa / Sue Kossew
  • Ch. 10. Intertextuality in Cheikh Hamidou Kane's The ambiguous adventure: multiple readings of death / Elias K. Bongmba
  • Ch. 11. Sins of the father? Thematic concerns in South African homosexual writing / Paul C. Woods
  • Ch. 12. Elephants and the ethics of ecological criticism: a case study in recent South African fiction / Dan Wylie
  • Ch. 13. South Africa's language policy: controlled status enhancement and reduction / William W. Bostock
  • Ch. 14. African-language publishing and book promotion in South Africa, 1994-2000: some developments and ironies / Phaswane Mpe.