Thread in the loom : essays on African literature and culture

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Author:

Osundare, Niyi, 1947-

ISBN:

9780865438651

9780865438668

Personal Author:

Osundare, Niyi, 1947-

Publication Information:

Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, 2000.

Physical Description:

p. cm.

Contents:

Freedom and the Creative Space -- Stubborn Thread in the Loom of Being: The Writer as Memory of the World -- Squaring up to Africa's Future: A Writer's Reflections on the Predicaments of a Continent -- Of Prizes and Messiahs -- African Literature and the Crisis of Post-Structuralist Theorising -- Singers of a New Dawn: Nigerian Literature From the Second Generation On -- Behold the Feast; but Where's the Guest? -- The Longest Day -- The Travails of Efficiency -- Ibadan -- Yoruba Thought, English Words: A Poet's Journey Through the Tunnel of Two Tongues -- Thresholds and Millennial Crossings -- The Possibilities of Hope.

Personal Subject:

Osundare, Niyi, 1947--Political and social views.

Subject Term:

African literature -- Political aspects.

African literature -- Social aspects.

Literature and society -- Africa.

Nigerian literature -- Political aspects.

Nigerian literature -- Social aspects.

Literature and society -- Nigeria.

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Summary

Even in this age of triumphal globalism, Africa still hangs on to a precarious existence in the margin, the zone of abysmal silence and disarticulation, stripped of agency and talk-back capability. It remains largely invisible on the map of the global village drawn by those who control the paper as well as the pencil. In an age of "travelling theories" and "travelling texts," externally generated ideas and prejudices travel with imperial ease and confidence in Africa while the "canon war" makes it extremely difficult for African texts to make it to the reading lists of European and American institutions. Related problems such as a grossly maladjusted economy with the myriad socio-economic injustices spawned by it, political instability, dictatorship, and intolerance have affected the literary and cultural scene in near apocalyptic proportions. This selection of essays addresses these and other issues from the author's perspective as an African writer, academic, social critic, and regular contributor to media discourse. Book jacket.