Toyin Falola

African Memoirs and Cultural Representations (eBook, ePUB)

Narrating Traditions

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Oral traditions and creative oratures have been celebrated in African studies over the years, specifically from the 1950s, as the most important and viable correspondence, aside from material artifacts, between social "archeologists" attempting to penetrate the African preliterate past and the social-political and economic productions of that same past.

In the memoirs chosen for this book, oral traditions are braided with personal experiences in the formation of the self, providing the basis of some African literary outputs and championed as having the ability to engineer the African knowledge system in global academe. In this regard, this work stressesthe concept that most memoir writing scholars feel that the production and presentation of the autobiographical self aredependent on the categories of individualism and relationality.

The memoirists depict their own identities in their tales as not simply a part of their society but also one strongly impacted by prominent persons in their many lived settings. The bookdiscusses an approach that enables West African memoirists to review their cultural backgrounds in the light of living in other spaces and acquiring different experiences.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781839987755
• Artikelnr.: 67316242

Autorenporträt

Toyin Falola is an author and editor of over one hundred and fifty books on Africa and the African Diaspora, and widely proclaimed as Africa's preeminent scholar and one of the major intellectuals of our time. A global icon in African Studies, Toyin Falola has received sixteen honorary doctorates.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
 Dedication
 Acknowledgments
 Preface
 Chapter One Mirror Effect: Narrating the Self through, Traditions and Cultures
 Chapter Two The Universal and the Particular in African Memoirs
 Chapter Three The Portraiture of Womanhood in Emmanuel, Babatunde's An African Journey through Celibate, Priesthood to Married Life
 Chapter Four Politics, Philosophical Representation, and Culture in Cherno Njie's Sweat Is Invisible in the Rain
 Chapter Five The Yoruba Worldview, Meanings, and Ideals of Life in Michael Afolayan's Fate of Our Mothers
 Chapter Six The Indelibility of Igbo Tradition (Home) in Kalu Ogbaa's Carrying my Father's Torch
 Chapter Seven Experiences, Reflections, and Refractions on the Cusp in A. B. Assensoh's A Matter of Sharing
 Chapter Eight Toward a Spatial and Identity Synthesis: Regional Peculiarities in African Memoirs
 Bibliography
 Index