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African Literature and the Future

Author :  (Ed) Gbemisola A. Adeoti

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Country
Senegal
Publisher
CODESRIA, Senegal
ISBN 9782869786332
Format PaperBack
Language English
Year of Publication 2015
Bib. Info viii, 104p.
Product Weight 182 gms.
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The book reflects on Africa's past and present, addressing anxieties about the future through the epistemological lens of literature. The contributors peep ahead from a backward glance. They dissect the trend and tenor of politics and their impact on the socio-cultural and economic development of the continent as portrayed in imaginative writings over the years. One salient feature of African literature is the close affinity between art and politics in its polemics. This is well established in all the six essays in the book as the authors stress the interconnections between literature and society in their textual analyses. On the whole, there is an overwhelming feeling of angst and pessimism, but the authors perceive a glimmer of hope despite daunting odds, under different conditions. Thus, they depict the plausible fate of Africa in the twenty-first century, as informed by its ancient and recent past, gleaned from primary texts.

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