Memory and the narrative imagination in the African and diaspora experience / selected, compiled, edited by Tom Spencer-Walters ; with a foreword by Ngugi wa Thiong'o.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Spencer-Walters, Tom (Compiler, Editor)
Language:English
Published: Troy, Michigan : Bedford Publishers, Inc., 2011.
Series:Contributions to memory in the African and diaspora experience
Subjects:
African literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
African diaspora.
African diaspora > History.
Authors, African > 20th century.
African literature.
Authors, African.
Physical Description:viii, 359 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Part 1. Memory and the literary imagination
  • 'He said'; 'She said'; 'We said' : cultural memory and African American literary pedagogy / Shirley Hanshaw
  • 'Remembering everything they don't want to forget' : memory, loving, and the Blues in Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching God / Shubha Venugopal
  • Cultural memory in the works of Langston Hughes as art for life's sake! / Dorothy Tsuruta
  • Discrepant cosmopolitanisms in Lorraine Hansberry's A raisin in the sun / Gic̃hingiri Ndig̃ir̃ig̃i ̃-- Memory and the mapping of a nation in crisis : Chenjerai Hove's Bones and the narration of the Zimbabwean nation / Munashe Furusa
  • Part 2. Narrative interpretations of memory in history
  • Gunboat diplomacy and the establishing of Port Harcourt in the Niger Delta : memory and selective reporting in history / Mac Sam Dixon-Fyle
  • Memory and the challenge of legitimization : the use of child soldiers in the Sierra Leone Civil Ear (1991-2001) / Tom Spencer-Walters
  • Memory and the muse of history in Derek Walcott's The sea is history and A far cry from Africa / Sarah Anyang Agbor
  • Photographic memories : the undue influence of the camera on perceptions of Africa / David Blumenkrantz
  • Part 3. Cultural and linguistic memory
  • Memory and motherhood in Afro-Brazilian popular music / Niyi Afolabi
  • The interaction of declarative & procedural memory in the process of Creolization : the case of the Sierra Leone Krio / Malcolm A. Finney
  • Bumuntu memory and authentic personhood : an African art of becoming humane / Mutombo Nkulu-N'Sengha
  • Remembering the traditions : contemporary challenges to the cultures of Benin / Jean-Claude Quenum.