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Title:

Africa in the world & the world in Africa : essays in honor of Abiola Irele / edited by Biodun Jeyifo.

Publisher:

Africa World Press,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

xvii, 321 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

African literature--Theory, etc.--Theory, etc.
African literature (English)--Theory, etc.--Theory, etc.
English literature--Theory, etc.--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
Irele, Abiola.
Africa--In literature.
Africa--Intellectual life--20th century.

Other Authors:

Irele, Abiola.
Jeyifo, Biodun, 1946-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction -- Part one. Irele as prism. Meditations, mediations and historicity in the work of Abiola Irele / Jean-Godefroy Bidima; Literary Africa / Olakunle George; After us, penultimate, barbarisms? / Biodun Jeyifo; The hearth and the world: cultural identity and African literary criticism / Mpalive-Hangson Msiska; On postcoloniality and alienation: Abiola Irele's "In praise of alienation" reconsidered / Tejumola Olaniyan -- Part two. Beyond the horizons of the present. The humanities and a new ethics of locality in Africa / Moradeun Adejunmobi; the ambiguous adventures of Caryl Philips' Tim Cribb / Akin Adesokan; Antigone in Yorubaland / Femi Osofisan; Re-thinking the critical location of Kamau Brathwaite and Derek Walcott / Elaine Savory; Creative pursuit in global Time / Wole Soyinka -- Part three. Irele writes back. Abiola Irele interviewed / by Elaine Savory.

ISBN:

9781592218288 (pbk.)
1592218288 (pbk.)
9781592218271 (hardcover)
159221827X (hardcover)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)710816325

LCCN:

2011012165

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)