Amuta Chidi
Amuta Chidi - Theory Of African Literature Implications For Practical Criticism - Paperback
Amuta Chidi - Theory Of African Literature Implications For Practical Criticism - Paperback
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Description: This groundbreaking work first published in 1989, was one of the first to challenge the conventional critical assessment of African literature and remains highly influential today. Amuta's key argument is that African literature can be discussed only within the wider framework of the dismantling of colonial rule and Western hegemony in Africa. In exploring the possibility of a dialectical alternative critical base he draws upon both classical Marxist aesthetics and the theories of African culture espoused by Fanon Cabral and Ngugi. From these explorations Amuta derives a new language of criticism which is then applied to works by modern African writers as diverse as Achebe Ousmane Agostinho Neto and Dennis Brutus. Amuta's highly original and innovative approach remains relevant not only for assessing the literature of developing countries but for Marxist and postcolonial theories of literary criticism more generally. The author's elegance of argument and clarity of exposition makes this a distinguished and lasting contribution to debates around cultural expression in postcolonial Africa.
Title: Theory Of African Literature Implications For Practical Criticism
Author(s): Amuta Chidi
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Barcode: 9781786990068
Pages: 224 Pages, Figures
Publication Date: 6/15/2017
Series: African Culture Archive
Category: Literary Studies: Post-Colonial Literature
Description: This groundbreaking work first published in 1989, was one of the first to challenge the conventional critical assessment of African literature and remains highly influential today. Amuta's key argument is that African literature can be discussed only within the wider framework of the dismantling of colonial rule and Western hegemony in Africa. In exploring the possibility of a dialectical alternative critical base he draws upon both classical Marxist aesthetics and the theories of African culture espoused by Fanon Cabral and Ngugi. From these explorations Amuta derives a new language of criticism which is then applied to works by modern African writers as diverse as Achebe Ousmane Agostinho Neto and Dennis Brutus. Amuta's highly original and innovative approach remains relevant not only for assessing the literature of developing countries but for Marxist and postcolonial theories of literary criticism more generally. The author's elegance of argument and clarity of exposition makes this a distinguished and lasting contribution to debates around cultural expression in postcolonial Africa.
Title: Theory Of African Literature Implications For Practical Criticism
Author(s): Amuta Chidi
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Barcode: 9781786990068
Pages: 224 Pages, Figures
Publication Date: 6/15/2017
Series: African Culture Archive
Category: Literary Studies: Post-Colonial Literature
