{"product_id":"alt-32-politics-social-justice-african-literature-today-9781847010971","title":"ALT 32 Politics \u0026 Social Justice: African Literature Today","description":"\u003cb\u003eExamines some of the varied African literary responses to politics and social justice and injustice under colonialism\/neocolonialism.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1965, Chinua Achebe, in his classic essay \"The Novelist as Teacher\", declared that the \"African past - with all its imperfections - was not one long night of savagery from which the early Europeans acting on God's behalf, delivered them.\" That assertion included a still reverberating sentiment shared by many of the first generation of African writers that it is possible to reclaim that distorted past creatively in order to show and understand \"where andwhen the rain started beating Africa\".\u003cbr\u003e Many genres and forms of literary and cultural production have recalled and recorded and reconfigured that past - many projecting a new confident African future defined by self-determination. The spectrum of that complex engagement, which encompasses critical issues in politics and social justice, provides the basis of this volume, which concludes with tributes to the life and works of Kofi Awoonor.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Articles on:\u003cbr\u003e Binyavanga Wainaina + Ben Okri \u0026amp; Nationhood + J.M. Coetzee \u0026amp; the Philosophy of Justice + Isidore Okpewho \u0026amp; \"Manhood\" + Ngugi's \u003ci\u003eMatigari\u003c\/i\u003e \u0026amp; the Postcolonial Nation + Politics \u0026amp; Women in Irene Salami's \u003ci\u003eMoreThan Dancing\u003c\/i\u003e + Ayi Kwei Armah's \u003ci\u003eThe Resolutionaries\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Ernest Emenyonu is Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Michigan-Flint, USA; the editorial board is composed of scholars from US, UK and African universities\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Nigeria: HEBN","brand":"Ernest N Emenyonu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48280469274875,"sku":"9781847010971","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781847010971.jpg?v=1772487636","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/alt-32-politics-social-justice-african-literature-today-9781847010971","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}