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Crossings and Comparisons in African Literary and Cultural Studies

Crossings and Comparisons in African Literary and Cultural Studies

Susanne Gehrmann, Pepetual Mforbe Chiangong (eds.)

WVT, Trier, LuKA 15, 2022, 272 p.
ISBN 978-3-86821-934-0 € 35,00

This book constructs a platform for the critical exploration of Africa literatures written in a variety of African and European languages and goes beyond the mainstream in African literary and cultural studies by engaging multiple hermeneutic approaches to narratives, performance, and visual arts.
Putting emphasis on comparing cultural productions in at least two linguistic expressions, the book foregrounds the analytical strategies employed by the contributors to delve into the epistemologies of African social, cultural and political life, as critical assessments of the novel, short stories, music, drama, film, poetry, social media, festivals, and academic institutions become paramount. The contributions underscore the necessity to respond to trends and transformations that African literary genres and media have seen across time and space with interest in how these changes have been enriched by the different languages of expression.
Going beyond regional and linguistic boxes, in which African literatures, music, and film have often been encapsulated, the chapters in this book present a critical assessment of the ideological, aesthetic, thematic, and linguistic models that illustrate similarities, but also differences, that can be made visible through comparative approaches, and which underscore the innovative potential to put African narratives, lyrics, and discourses conveyed in more than one language in conversation with one another.

Contributions de Abdalla Uba Adamu, Anne M. Carovani, Gbandé Daré, Bernadette Desorbay, Susanne Gehrmann, Cullen Goldblatt, Ricarda de Haas, Miriam Maranga-Musonye, Pepetual Mforbe Chiangong, Oladipupo Oyeleye, Charlott Schönwetter, Isabel Schröder, Clarissa Vierke et Lucia Weiß.

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Emerging Trends in Eastern African Literatures and Cultures

Parution d’un recueil d’essais sur les littératures et cultures de l’Afrique de l’Est, incluant des chapitres sur la littérature burundaise ainsi que la littérature swahiliphone.

Susanne Gehrmann, Oduor Obura, James Ogone, Obala Musumba (eds.): Emerging Trends in Eastern African Literatures and Cultures. Glienicke: Galda, 2020, 352 p.

This book volume engages the emergent ways and exercises of world-making in eastern African literatures and cultures. It also includes how the world comes to eastern Africa as well as how eastern Africa speaks to the world. Writers within the region have come up with novel commentaries on diverse social issues. Artists and other users have invented new forms of expression through digitalization. The structure and content of this literature and cultural conversations, in line with modernity, has exhibited a fluidity that calls for the critical appraisal carried out in this book.
Therefore, this book volume centralises the emergence of new patterns of engagement in the literatures and cultures of the region. Taking cue from the cultural transformations, technological advancements and political influences, the volume raises questions on politics, conflict and war, and the evolving genres and canon. The book crosses language barriers beyond English and includes critical attention to texts written in the Swahili and French languages. The chapters aim to give a broad overview of the writings and cultural expressions in the eastern African region, including novels, films, short stories, theatre, poetry, oral, and digital performances.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction: An Overview of Trends in Eastern African Literatures and Cultures
Oduor Obura

Part One: The Evolving Literary Canon

Literary Disruptions of the Ugandan Canon in Selected Ugandan Short Stories
Edgar Nabutanyi
A Discipline under Siege: Interrogating the Place of Literature in English in the Secondary School Curriculum in Tanzania
Obala Musumba
Cartographies of Killing: Transnational Drones in Eye in the Sky
Jana Fedtke
Performing in the Cyber Space: The Online Mchongoano Battles
Kimingichi Wabende
Mobile Phones in the Public Space: Communication as Contextual Cultural Practice in Kenya
James Ogone

Part Two: Conflict, Politics, and War

Narrating Violence in Burundian Genocide and Civil War Literature: Pacifique Irankunda’s “Playing at Violence”
Jodi Mikalachki
Violence and the Multivocality of Silence in Roland Rugero’s Novels
Giuseppe Sofo
Conflicts in Memories, History and National Identity in Burundian Literature
Pierre Boizette
The Aporia in Eastern African War Narratives as Reflected in Uwem Akpan’s “My Parents’ Bedroom” and Misago Aloys’ La Descente aux enfers
Marie-Thérèse Toyi
Ethiopian Dissident Fiction: Countering Despotism in Hama Tuma’s Short Stories
George Otieno Odhiambo
Agony on Stage: The Intrigues of Building Houses in The Rubble Rouser, performed at the 58th Edition of the Kenya Schools and Colleges Drama Festival (KSCDF)
Pepetual Mforbe Chiangong

Part Three: Recent Interventions in Swahili Writing

UWARIDI Initiative: The Innovative Transformation of a Self-help Project by Tanzanian Novelists into a Powerful Literary Space
Uta Reuster-Jahn
Swahili Poetry in the New Millennium: Established and Emerging Trends
Flavia Aiello, Roberto Gaudioso and Emiliano Minerba
Linking the Centuries: The ‘Big Four’ of Kenyan Swahili Writing
Mikhail D. Gromov

URL de l’éditeur : https://www.galda-verlag.de/product/emerging-trends-in-eastern-african-literatures-and-cultures/

Littératures africaines et spiritualité

Littératures africaines et spiritualité
Littératures africaines et spiritualité

Littératures africaines et spiritualité

sous la direction de Pierre Halen et Florence Paravy

Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, coll. “Littératures des Afriques”

ISBN : 979-10-300-0086-3 – 349 p. – Sortie nationale : 2016/11.

La spiritualité, comprise ici dans un sens très large, incluant les discours de sagesse, les références aux religions et les schèmes de pensée que celles-ci ont diffusés, mais aussi les quêtes mystiques, semble bien être l’une des grandes affaires de notre temps. Ce n’est pas tout à fait ce qu’avaient laissé prévoir les messianismes essentiellement profanes qui avaient présidé naguère à l’anticolonialisme militant ; mais c’est néanmoins une des dimensions irrécusables des tensions identitaires et politiques contemporaines. Les littératures africaines, elles aussi entendues au sens large dans ce volume, en témoignent dans leur diversité. Les analyses réunies ici s’intéressent à la dimension religieuse, non seulement des réalités sociales représentées, où se concurrencent parfois plusieurs traditions religieuses, mais aussi de l’écriture littéraire elle-même, à la fois réceptable de savoirs culturels, lieu de négociation et d’adaptation identitaire, et creuset, aussi, de quêtes personnelles face à l’absolu.

URL de référence : http://www.pub-editions.fr/index.php/ouvrages/champs-disciplinaires/lettres/litteratures-des-afriques/litteratures-africaines-et-spiritualite-4546.html

Consulter le sommaire de l’ouvrage : pages-de-ldaf_02_tdm

Littératures en langues africaines : production, diffusion, réception. Colloque ELLAf

ELLAFColloque ELLAf (Encyclopédie des Littératures en langues africaines):

Littératures en langues africaines: production, diffusion, réception

Ce colloque se tiendra les 29, 30 septembre et 1er octobre 2016, à l’auditorium de l’INALCO, 65 rue des grands Moulins, Paris 13e.
Consulter le site du colloque : https://ellaf2016.sciencesconf.org/
Consulter le programme en pdf : Programme_colloque_ELLAf.
Consulter l’appel à contributions : https://apela.hypotheses.org/713

Parution : « La parole construit le pays »

Vient de paraître aux Éditions Honoré Champion

untitledMaëline Le Lay

 

« La parole construit le pays » Théâtre, langues et didactisme au Katanga (République Démocratique du Congo)

496 p., broché ISBN 978-2-7453-2791-8. 95 €

Maëline Le Lay est docteure en littérature comparée de l’Université de Paris 13-Nord et chargée de recherche au CNRS au laboratoire « Les Afriques dans le monde » de l’Université de Bordeaux.

The artistic vitality of the French- and Swahili-speaking Katanga region of the Congo is evidenced by the local theatre scene. The didactic intent that characterizes productions in both languages is a rare point of convergence between two theatrical traditions that developed in opposition to each other.

La Table des matières est disponible sur la fiche de cet ouvrage, à l’adresse : www.honorechampion.com

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