Re-Imagining Africa de Sue Kossew

Re-Imagining Africa: New Critical Perspectives

Sue Kossew

This book provides a plethora of insights and perspectives that take up and challenge prevailing points of view about today's Africa. The chapters examine a number of different media and topics: from African theatre to poetry, from accounts of personal history to South Africa's language policy and publishing practices. Their unifying theme is a search for tomorrow's cultural trends in an ever-changing Africa.

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Contents: Introduction; A Century of Conrad's Heart of Darkness; Monstering the Interior; Internal Journeys Over External Landscapes; Dictating Currents and the Questioning of Tyranny in Africa: An Intertextual Study of Femi Osofisan's Yungba-Yungba and the Dance Contest; Between Ancestries and Amarapurs: Immigrant Asianess in M.G. Vassanji's Fiction; Social Suffering and the Politics of Pain: Observations on the Concentration Camps in the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902; "Voices from the Past": The Depiction of the Khoisan in Contemporary Afrikaan's Historical Novels; " A White Fly on the Sombre Windowpane": The Construction of Africa and identity in Breyten Breytenbach's Poetry; "Something Terrible Happened": Nadine Gordimer's The House Gun and the Politics of Violence and Recovery in Post-Apartheid South Africa; Intertextuality in Cheikh Hamidou Kane's The Ambiguous Adventure: Multiple Readings of Death; Sins of the Father? Thematic Concerns in South African Homosexual Writing; Elephants and the Ethics of Ecological Criticism: A Case Study in Recent South African Fiction; South Africa's Language Policy: Controlled Status Enhancement and Reduction; African-Language Publishing and Book Promotion in South Africa, 1994-2000: Some Developments and Ironies; Index.