Browsing by Subject "African literature"
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Fugitive Time: Black Culture and Utopian Desire
(2018)This project examines how African diasporic writers and filmmakers from Zimbabwe, Martinique, Britain, and the United States inscribe into their works a sense of anticipation of release from subjection, as if to experience ... -
Questioning the Writing Cure: Contemporary Sub-Saharan African Trauma Fiction
(2012)This dissertation examines a series of novels by Aminata Zaaria, Ken Bugul, Gaston-Paul Effa, Boubacar Boris Diop and Yolande Mukagasana. At the heart of my study is a problem that haunts much literary production and literary ... -
Return to the Motherland: Maternal Landscape and Evolution of Homo Sacer in Beckett, Coetzee, Fugard and Duiker
(2013)This paper examines how Beckett and Coetzee probe the limits of the human (physically, psychologically, spiritually, legally, politically) and compares and contrasts these two writers (who operate in a more-or-less allegorical ... -
Spaces of Order: An African Poetics of Space
(2016)“Spaces of Order” argues that the African novel should be studied as a revolutionary form characterized by aesthetic innovations that are not comprehensible in terms of the novel’s European archive of forms. It does this ...
