Autobiography, Memory and Nationhood in Anglophone Africa
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-27522-2 (ISBN)
Focusing on the autobiographies of Peter Abrahams, Albert Luthuli, Ruth First and Nelson Mandela (South Africa), Nnamdi Azikiwe (Nigeria), Kenneth Kaunda (Zambia), George Mwase (Malawi), Kwame Nkrumah (Ghana), Maurice Nyagumbo (Zimbabwe), and Oginga Odinga (Kenya), the book uncovers the social and cultural forces which galvanized the anti-colonial resistance movement in African societies. In particular, the book explores the disdain for foreign domination, economic exploitation and cultural imperialism. It delves into themes of African cultural sovereignty before the colonial encounter, the disruptive presence of colonialism, the nationalist ferment against European imperial domination, the achievement of political autonomy by African nation-states and the corpus of contradictions which attended postcolonial becoming.
With important insights on how these key historical figures navigated the process of self-determining nationhood in Africa, this book will be of interest to researchers of African literature, history, and politics.
David Ekanem Udoinwang is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English, Akwa Ibom State University, Nigeria where he teaches Black and African autobiography, digital and eco-critical literatures. In 2017, he was AHP/ACLS Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town, South Africa. James Tar Tsaaior is a Professor of English, Media and Cultural Studies and a Senior Associate Research Fellow in the Department of English of The University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa. Until recently, he was Alexander von Humboldt Experienced Research Fellow and Visiting Professor in the Centre for Anglophone and American Studies, University of Potsdam, Germany.
1. Introduction: Autobiographies, Colonisation and Decolonisation, 2. Autobiography, Self-making and National Be-Coming: From Theory to Practice, 3. Imagining a Continental Statehood: The Autobiographies of Kwame Nkrumah and Nnamdi Azikiwe, 4. Narrating Violence and Non-Violence as Roadmaps to Nationhood: Not Yet Uhuru (NYU), Strike A Blow and Die (SBD) and Zambia Shall Be Free (ZSBF), 5. Narrating Apartheid State Violence: The Autobiographies of Albert Luthuli and Nelson Mandela, 6. ‘"The Negro is not Free"’: Visualising a Humane Nationhood in Abrahams’ Tell Freedom and Maurice Nyagumbo’s With the People, 7. Life Narratives, the Female Voice and the National Liberation Experience: Ruth First’s 117 Days: An Account of Confinement and Interrogation Under the South African 90-Days Detention Law, 8. Conclusions: Autobiographies, Memories and the Making of Nationhood
| Erscheinungsdatum | 17.08.2022 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Routledge Studies in African Literature |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 390 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-032-27522-7 / 1032275227 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-032-27522-2 / 9781032275222 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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