Postcolonial Studies

F. Abiola Irele & Simon Gikandi, eds., The Cambridge History of African and Caribbean Literature 2 vols. (Cambridge UP 2004), xli, 906pp., ill., maps. [ISBN 0521594340] CONTENTS: ‘Africa and orality’, Liz Gunner; ‘The folktale and its extensions’, Kwesi Yankah; ‘Festivals, ritual, and drama in Africa’, Tejumola Oaniyan; ‘Arab and Berber oral traditions in North Africa’, Sabra Webber; ‘Heroic and praise poetry in South Africa’, Lupenga Mphande; ‘African oral epics’, Isidore Okpehwo; ‘The oral tradition in the African diaspora’, Maureen Warner-Lewis; ‘Carnival and the folk origins of West Indian drama’, Keith Q. Warner; ‘Africa and writing’, Alain Ricard; ‘Ethiopian literature’, Teodros Kiros; ‘African literature in Arabic’, Farida Abu-Haidar; ‘The Swahili literary tradition : an intercultural heritage’, Alamin M. Mazrui; ‘Africa and the European Renaissance’, Silvie Kandé; ‘The literature of slavery and abolition’, Moira Ferguson; ‘Discourses of empire’, Robert Eric Livingston; ‘African-language literatures of southern Africa’, Daniel P. Kuene; ‘Gikuyu literature : development from early Christian writings to Ngugi’s later novels’, Ann Biersteker; ‘The emergence of written Hausa literature’, Ousseina Alidou; ‘Literature in Yorùbá : poetry and prose; traveling theatre and modern drama’, Karin Barber; ‘African literature and the colonial factor’, Simon Gikandi; ‘The formative journals and institutions’, Milton Krieger; ‘Literature in Afrikaans’, Ampie Coetzee; ‘East African literature in English’, Simon Gikandi; ‘Anglophone literature of Central Africa’, Flora Veit-Wild and Anthony Chennells; ‘West African literature in English : beginnings to the mid-seventies’, Dan Izevbaye; ‘South African literature in English’, David Attwell; ‘African literature in French : Sub-Saharan Africa during the colonial period’, Mildred Mortimer; ‘North African literature in French’, Patricia Geesey; ‘Francophone literatures of the Indian Ocean’, Bénédicte Maguière; ‘African literature in Spanish’, M’bre N’gom; ‘African literature in Portuguese’, Russell Hamilton; ‘Popular literature in Africa’, Ode S. Ogede; ‘Caribbean literature in French : origins and development’, Nick Nesbitt; ‘Caribbean literature in Spanish’, Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert; ‘Anglophone Caribbean literature’, Elaine Savory; ‘The Harlem Renaissance and the Negritude movement’, F. Abiola Irele; ‘Postcolonial Caribbean identities’, J. Michael Dash; ‘African literature and post-independence disillusionment’, Derek Wright; ‘“Postcolonial” African and Caribbean literature’, Adele King; ‘Modernism and postmodernism in African literature’, Ato Quayson. [COPAC]
Javed Majeed, Ungovernable Imaginings [..., &c.], formerly “Orientalism, utilitarianism, and British India: James Mill’s The history of British India and the Romantic Orient”, PhD. Diss., Oxford University, 1988.
M. Sharafuddin, Islamic and Romantic Orientalism [... &c.], formerly “Islam and Romanticism: A study of Orientalism in English Verse Narrative, 1798-1817” (Ph.D. Diss., Univ. of York 1988).

Postcolonial Studies Linda Colley, Captives: Britain, Empire and the World 1600-1850 (London; Jonathan Cape 2002), 438pp. F. Abiola Irele & Simon Gikandi, eds., The Cambridge History of African and Caribbean Literature 2 vols. (Cambridge UP 2004), xli, 906pp. [note]. Katie Trumpener, Bardic Nationalism: The Romantic Novel with the British Empire (Princeton UP 1997) Ella O’Dwyer, The Rising of the Moon: The Language of Power (London: Pluto Press 2002), 176pp. [Note: O’Dwyer has also written “Reading Institutions: Alternative Responses in Women’s Fiction” (Durham MA 1990) and “The Linguistics of Power and the Structuration of Meaning” (Univ. of Ulster PhD 1998).] Julia M. Wright, Ireland, India and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Literature (Cambridge Studies in 19thc. Lit. & Culture, 55] (Cambridge UP [forthcoming]. Javed Majeed, ‘Thomas Moore and Orientalism’, in Ungoverned Imaginings: James Mill’s The History of British India and Orientalism (1992), pp.87-122 [note]. Mohammed Sharafuddin, ‘Thomas Moore’s Lalla Rookh & the Politics of Irony’, in Islam & Romantic Orientalism: literary encounters with the Orient (London: Tauris 1994),pp.134-213 [note]. Neil Lazarus, ed., Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies (Cambridge UP 2004), 350pp.
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F. Abiola Irele & Simon Gikandi, eds., The Cambridge History of African and Caribbean Literature 2 vols. (Cambridge UP 2004), xli, 906pp., ill., maps. [ISBN 0521594340] CONTENTS: ‘Africa and orality’, Liz Gunner; ‘The folktale and its extensions’, Kwesi Yankah; ‘Festivals, ritual, and drama in Africa’, Tejumola Oaniyan; ‘Arab and Berber oral traditions in North Africa’, Sabra Webber; ‘Heroic and praise poetry in South Africa’, Lupenga Mphande; ‘African oral epics’, Isidore Okpehwo; ‘The oral tradition in the African diaspora’, Maureen Warner-Lewis; ‘Carnival and the folk origins of West Indian drama’, Keith Q. Warner; ‘Africa and writing’, Alain Ricard; ‘Ethiopian literature’, Teodros Kiros; ‘African literature in Arabic’, Farida Abu-Haidar; ‘The Swahili literary tradition : an intercultural heritage’, Alamin M. Mazrui; ‘Africa and the European Renaissance’, Silvie Kandé; ‘The literature of slavery and abolition’, Moira Ferguson; ‘Discourses of empire’, Robert Eric Livingston; ‘African-language literatures of southern Africa’, Daniel P. Kuene; ‘Gikuyu literature : development from early Christian writings to Ngugi’s later novels’, Ann Biersteker; ‘The emergence of written Hausa literature’, Ousseina Alidou; ‘Literature in Yorùbá : poetry and prose; traveling theatre and modern drama’, Karin Barber; ‘African literature and the colonial factor’, Simon Gikandi; ‘The formative journals and institutions’, Milton Krieger; ‘Literature in Afrikaans’, Ampie Coetzee; ‘East African literature in English’, Simon Gikandi; ‘Anglophone literature of Central Africa’, Flora Veit-Wild and Anthony Chennells; ‘West African literature in English : beginnings to the mid-seventies’, Dan Izevbaye; ‘South African literature in English’, David Attwell; ‘African literature in French : Sub-Saharan Africa during the colonial period’, Mildred Mortimer; ‘North African literature in French’, Patricia Geesey; ‘Francophone literatures of the Indian Ocean’, Bénédicte Maguière; ‘African literature in Spanish’, M’bre N’gom; ‘African literature in Portuguese’, Russell Hamilton; ‘Popular literature in Africa’, Ode S. Ogede; ‘Caribbean literature in French : origins and development’, Nick Nesbitt; ‘Caribbean literature in Spanish’, Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert; ‘Anglophone Caribbean literature’, Elaine Savory; ‘The Harlem Renaissance and the Negritude movement’, F. Abiola Irele; ‘Postcolonial Caribbean identities’, J. Michael Dash; ‘African literature and post-independence disillusionment’, Derek Wright; ‘“Postcolonial” African and Caribbean literature’, Adele King; ‘Modernism and postmodernism in African literature’, Ato Quayson. [COPAC] Javed Majeed, Ungovernable Imaginings [..., &c.], formerly “Orientalism, utilitarianism, and British India: James Mill’s The history of British India and the Romantic Orient”, PhD. Diss., Oxford University, 1988. M. Sharafuddin, Islamic and Romantic Orientalism [... &c.], formerly “Islam and Romanticism: A study of Orientalism in English Verse Narrative, 1798-1817” (Ph.D. Diss., Univ. of York 1988).
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