Brenda Cooper

A New Generation of African Writers

Migration, Material Culture and Language

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Brenda Cooper examines the work of the new generation of African writers who have placed migration as central to their writing.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 165mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9781847015075
• ISBN-10: 1847015077
• Artikelnr.: 25374773

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Multiple worlds, material culture & language Virtual objects
& parallel universes in Biyi Bandele's The Street Everyday objects &
translation in Leila Aboulela's The Translator & Coloured Lights Science &
power in Jamal Mahjoub's The Carrier Words, things & subjectivity in Moses
Isegawa's Abyssinian Chronicles Breaking gods & petals of purple in
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus An abnormal ordinary: Chimamanda
Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun Conclusion: the rifle is not a penis