Bernth Lindfors

Early Nigerian Literature

Reinhard Sander

Lynette Cintrón

Ngugi's words lead to a deeper understanding of colonial and postcolonial history.

Interviews with the Kenyan Writer

Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong'o Speaks

Twelve essays explore Africa's popular writers including Achebe, Brutus, and Ngugi.

Popular Literatures in Africa

Volume 2 of the first available biography of this great classical actor, covering the final years of his career.

The Vagabond Years, 1833-1852

Ira Aldridge

Essays on the post-colonial Anglophone writers from Africa and the Caribbean and their works.

First series

Twentieth-century Caribbean and Black African Writers

Third series

Ethnological show business has a very long history in Europe. It became increasingly common after advances in navigational technology put Europeans in touch with human communities all over the globe.In the 19th and 20th centuries some of the most interesting individuals and groups exhibited in Europe and America came from Africa. What did the average spectator think of such representatives from the "Dark Continent"? If the display was a dramatic one -- that is, if the Africans sang, danced or acted out events -- what opinions did observers form of them as performers and as human beings? How was the spectacle staged, and who organized and managed the show? How authentic were these performances? Where did the performers actually come from? What notions about Africa and Africans were these exhibitions meant to convey?Africans on Stage is a book about how these three groups -- players, promoters, and spectators -- helped to shape European and American perceptions of Africans. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Studies in Ethnological Show Business

Africans on Stage

Like its companion volume, African Writers and,Their Readers is a magnificent and monumental,tribute to Bernth Lindfors, the scholar who,transformed African literary studies in North,America.. the quality of scholarship that has,gone into these essays and their range of,cultural and historical reference is perhaps one,of the most vocal testaments to the significance,of the Lindfors factor in African literary,scholarship - Simon Gikandi, Professor of English,Language and Literature at the University of,Michigan.

Essays in Honor of Bernth Lindfors

African Writers and Their Readers

John A. Wiseman

Catherine Lynette Innes

Critical Perspectives on Chinua Achebe

By exploring the representations of Africans in circuses, plays, and exhibits in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain and America, Bernth Lindfors reveals how these performances served to reinforce American and European prejudices.

From the Hottentot Venus to Africa's First Olympians

Early African Entertainments Abroad

James Gibbs

Research on Wole Soyinka

A collection of essays offer various approaches to teaching Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart" by such writers as Ashton Nichols, Simon Gikandi, and Hunt Hawkins.

Approaches to Teaching Achebe's Things Fall Apart

Geoffrey V. Davis

This tribute collection reflects the wide range and diversity of James Gibbs’s academic interests. The focus is on Africa, but comparative studies of other literatures also receive attention. Fiction, drama, and poetry by writers from Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Eritrea, Malawi, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Ireland, England, Germany, India, and the Caribbean are surveyed alongside significant missionaries, scientists, performers, and scholars. The writers discussed include Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe, Kobina Sekyi, Raphael Armattoe, J.E. Casely Hayford, Michael Dei-Anang, Kofi Awoonor, Ayi Kwei Armah, John Kolosa Kargbo, Dele Charley, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Okot p’Bitek, Jonathan Sajiwandani, Samuel E. Krune Mqhayi, A.S. Mopeli–Paulus, Kelwyn Sole, Anna Seghers, Raja Rao, and Arundhati Roy. Other essays treat the black presence in Ireland, anonymous rap artists in Chicago, the Jamaican missionary Joseph Jackson Fuller in the Cameroons, the African-American actor Ira Aldridge in Sweden, the Swedish naturalist Anders Sparrman in South Africa, and the literary scholar and editor Eldred Durosimi Jones in Sierra Leone. Interviews with the Afro-German Africanist Theodor Wonja Michael and the Irish-Nigerian dramatist Gabriel Gbadamosi are also included. Also offered are poems by Jack Mapanje and Kofi Anyidoho, short stories by Charles R. Larson and Robert Fraser, plays by Femi Osofisan and Martin Banham, and an account of a dramatic reading of a script written and co-performed by James Gibbs. Contributors: Anne Adams, Sola Adeyemi, Kofi Anyidoho, Awo Mana Asiedu, Martin Banham, Eckhard Breitinger, Gordon Collier, James Currey, Geoffrey V. Davis, Chris Dunton, Robert Fraser, Raoul J. Granqvist, Gareth Griffiths, C.L. Innes, Charles R. Larson, Bernth Lindfors, Leif Lorentzon, Jack Mapanje, Christine Matzke, Mpalive–Hangson Msiska, Femi Osofisan, Eustace Palmer, Jane Plastow, Lynn Taylor, and Pia Thielmann. Geoffrey V. Davis co-edits the series Cross/Cultures and the African studies journal Matatu. Recent publications include Narrating Nomadism and African Literatures: Post¬colonial Literatures in English: Sources and Resources (both co-ed. 2013). Bernth Lindfors, founding editor of the journal Research in African Literatures, is writing a bio¬graphy of Ira Aldridge (two volumes have so far appeared: The Early Years, 1807–1833 and The Vagabond Years, 1833–1852, both 2011).

A Florilegium

African Literatures and Beyond

Folklore in Nigerian Literature

Volume 1 of this first thorough biography of Ira Aldridge, African American actor, covering the first 26 years of his life and career.

This volume lists the work produced on anglophone black African literature between 1997 and 1999. Containing thousands of entries, it covers books, periodical articles, papers in edited collections and selective coverage of other relevant sources.

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