Teaching the African Novel
Title | Teaching the African Novel PDF eBook |
Author | Gaurav Desai |
Publisher | Modern Language Association of America |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2009-01-01 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9781603290371 |
What is the African novel, and how should it be taught? The twenty-three essays of this volume address these two questions and in the process convey a wealth of information and ideas about the diverse regions, peoples, nations, languages, and writers of the African continent. Topics include Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's favoring of indigenous languages and literary traditions over European; the special place of Marxism in African letters;the influence of Frantz Fanon; women writers and the sub-Saharan novel;the Maghrebian novel;the novel and the griot epic in the Sahel;Islam in the West African novel;novels in Spanish from Equatorial Guinea;apartheid and postapartheid fiction;African writers in the diaspora;globalization in East African fiction; teaching Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart to students in different countries;the Onitsha market romance. The volume editor, Gaurav Desai, writes, "The point of the volume is to encourage a reading of Africa that is sensitive to its history of colonization but at the same time responsive to its present multiracial and multicultural condition."
A Teacher's Guide to African Literature
Title | A Teacher's Guide to African Literature PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 394 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | African literature |
ISBN |
A Teacher's Guide to African Narratives
Title | A Teacher's Guide to African Narratives PDF eBook |
Author | Sara Talis O'Brien |
Publisher | Heinemann Educational Books |
Pages | 142 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN |
A highly readable and informative guide for secondary school teachers who want to induce African literature in their classes.
Glencoe African American Literature, Teacher Guide
Title | Glencoe African American Literature, Teacher Guide PDF eBook |
Author | Glencoe/McGraw-Hill |
Publisher | |
Pages | 388 |
Release | 2001-03-01 |
Genre | African American authors |
ISBN | 9780078229268 |
African Novels in the Classroom
Title | African Novels in the Classroom PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret Jean Hay |
Publisher | Lynne Rienner Publishers |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Africa |
ISBN | 9781555878788 |
Many teachers of African studies have found novels to be effective assignments in courses. In this guide, teachers describe their favourite African novels - drawn from all over the continent - and share their experiences of using them in the classroom.
Teaching Literature in Africa
Title | Teaching Literature in Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Emmanuel Ngara |
Publisher | |
Pages | 92 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | African literature (English) |
ISBN |
Long Drums and Canons
Title | Long Drums and Canons PDF eBook |
Author | Bernth Lindfors |
Publisher | Africa World Press |
Pages | 204 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | African literature |
ISBN | 9780865434370 |
This collection of essays addresses questions pertinent to the teaching of the relatively new discipline surrounding the teaching and researching of African literature. A valuable resource for both researchers, lecturers and students, it examines current practices, considers which material and writers should be studied, and considers how academic programmes can be structured.