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Author:

Eze, Chielozona.

Title:

Postcolonial imagination and moral representations in African literature and culture / Chielozona Eze.

Publisher:

Lexington Books,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

xvii, 137 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

African literature--20th century--History and criticism.
African literature--21st century--History and criticism.
Postcolonialism--Africa.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Ethics in literature.
Africa--Intellectual life--20th century.
Africa--Intellectual life--21st century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Postcolonial states of injury and moral imaginations -- The moral reinvention of Africa -- Things fall apart and the invention of the African culture -- The pitfalls of African feminism -- Robert Mugabe and the symbolic power of history -- Frantz Fanon and the search for new discourse paradigms -- Wole Soyinka and the moral foundations of community -- Literature and the task of increasing the sum total of humanity.

ISBN:

0739145088 (ebook)
9780739145081 (ebook)
0739145061 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780739145067 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)746837613

LCCN:

2011036065

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)