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

• 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.

Ämnesord

African literature  -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc. (LCSH)

African literature (English)  -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc. (LCSH)

English literature  -- Black authors -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc. (LCSH)

Africa  -- In literature. (LCSH)

Africa  -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. (LCSH)

Personnamn

Irele, Abiola, 1936-

Klassifikation

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