Описание: An enlivening exploration of the links between literature, popular culture and theories of gender in African literature.
Автор: Emenyonu, Ernest N. Iheka, Cajetan Newell, Stephanie Название: Alt 38 environmental transformations - african literature today ISBN: 1847012280 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781847012289 Издательство: Boydell & Brewer Рейтинг: Цена: 10296.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Investigates what literary strategies African writers adopt to convey the impact of climate transformation and environmental change.
Автор: Newell, Stephanie Название: Histories of dirt ISBN: 1478005394 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781478005391 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 17550.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: In Histories of Dirt Stephanie Newell traces the ways in which urban spaces and urban dwellers come to be regarded as dirty, as exemplified in colonial and postcolonial Lagos. Newell conceives dirt as an interpretive category that facilitates moral, sanitary, economic, and aesthetic evaluations of other cultures under the rubric of uncleanliness. She examines a number of texts ranging from newspaper articles by elite Lagosians to colonial travel writing, public health films, and urban planning to show how understandings of dirt came to structure colonial governance. Seeing Lagosians as sources of contagion and dirt, British colonizers used racist ideologies and discourses of dirt to justify racial segregation and public health policies. Newell also explores possibilities for non-Eurocentric methods for identifying African urbanites’ own values and opinions by foregrounding the voices of contemporary Lagosians through interviews and focus groups in which their responses to public health issues reflect local aesthetic tastes and values. In excavating the shifting role of dirt in structuring social and political life in Lagos, Newell provides new understandings of colonial and postcolonial urban history in West Africa.
Описание: Between the 1880s and the 1940s, the region known as British West Africa became a dynamic zone of literary creativity and textual experimentation. This book offers a cultural history of this phenomenon, examining the array of anonymous and pseudonymous writing practices to be found in African-owned newspapers between the 1880s and the 1940s.
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