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Dealing with Evils

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Annie Gagiano addresses more than twenty texts from various African regions and periods, ranging from transcriptions of ancient folktales to classic African English texts and recent writings on soc...
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Annie Gagiano addresses more than twenty texts from various African regions and periods, ranging from transcriptions of ancient folktales to classic African English texts and recent writings on social and gender issues. Gagiano focuses on these texts' engagement with the forces that damage and threaten life in Africa and these authors' political courage, social concern, and subtle delineation of their characters' experiences. A new preface and several new essays bring the collection up to date with the latest developments in the field.
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Price: $39.00
Pages: 304
Publisher: Ibidem Press
Imprint: Ibidem Press
Series: Studies in English Literatures
Publication Date: 07 October 2014
Trim Size: 8.27 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783838206875
Format: Paperback
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LITERARY CRITICISM / African
This collection of essays by one of South Africa's most admired postcolonial critics collects a range of discrepant engagements with literary texts. The essays—without exception—are persuasive, each combining a close reading of the intersection of text and context.
Annie Gagiano has taught literature since the seventies in the English Department of the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa, where she is at present a professor emeritus and research associate. At a more popular level she writes the regular column "The African Library" on classic and contemporary African texts for the electronic magazine "LitNet".

Preface to the Second Edition
1. Listening for the Mediated Voices of the Southern African Khoisan in Hendrik's Dwaalstories: Ironies and Wonders
2. Marecheran Postmodernism: Mocking the Bad Joke of "African Modernism"
3. Anomy and Agony in a Nation in Crisis: Soyinka's Season of Anomy
4. Finding Foundantions for Chance in Bessie Head's The Cardinals
5. Blood Gets a Voice: Unity Dow's The Screaming of the Innocent
6. Two Late Apartheid-Era Novels: Balancing the Books in the South African Present
7. Mongane Serote's To Every Birth Its Blood: Painting the True Colours of Apartheid
8. Shakespeare, (Fanon,) Salih: Can the Black Man Love the White Woman? Can the White Woman Love the Black Man?
9. A. C. Jordan's Tales From Southern Africa
10. Memory, Power and Bessie Head: A Question of Power
11. Patterns of Leadership in Bessie Head's Maru and A Bewitched Crossroad: An African Saga
12. "Barbarism" and "Civilisation" in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus and in Marechera's Black Sunlight
13. Farah's Sweet and Sour Milk: The Noise in the Dictator's Ear
14. Performances, Ethics and Aesthetics of Wealth in African Literary Depiction
15. Three Takes on Somali Womanhood in the Eddies of the Contemporary Black Atlantic Context
16. Achebe's Children: Resonance, Poignance and Grandeur
Acknowledgements