Evan M. Mwangi

Evan M. Mwangi

Evan M. Mwangi

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In India and East Africa E-Indiya nase East Africa

Tina Steiner

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In November 1949 D.D.T. Jabavu, the South African politician and professor of African languages at Fort Hare University, set out on a four-month trip to attend the World Pacifist Meeting in India. He wrote an isiXhosa account of his journey which was published in 1951 by Lovedale Press. This new edition republishes the travelogue in the original isiXhosa, with an English translation by the late anthropologist Cecil Wele Manona. The travelogue contains reflections on Jabavu’s social interactions during his travels, and on the conference itself, where he considered what lessons Gandhian principles might yield for South Africans engaged in struggles for freedom and dignity. His commentary on non-violent resistance, and on the dangers of nationalism and racism, enriches the existing archive of intellectual exchanges between Africa and India from a black South African perspective. The volume includes chapters by the editors that examine the networks of international solidarity – from post-independence India to the anti-colonial struggle in East Africa and the American civil rights movement – which Jabavu helped to strengthen, biographical sketches of Jabavu and of Manona, and an afterword that reflects on the historical and political significance of making African-language texts available to readers across Africa.List of illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Networks of Solidarity: D.D.T. Jabavu’s Voyage to India – Tina Steiner Revisiting D.D.T. Jabavu, 1885–1959 – Catherine Higgs Notes on the Original and the Translation – Mhlobo W. Jadezweni In Praise of Cecil Wele Manona, 1937–2013 – Catherine Higgs E-Indiya nase East Africa – D.D.T. Jabavu In India and East Africa – D.D.T. Jabavu, translated by Cecil Wele Manona, edited by Tina Steiner and Mhlobo W. Jadezweni Afterword: Jabavu and African Translations for the Future – Evan M. Mwangi References Editors’ biographies Index
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Africa Writes Back to Self

Evan M. Mwangi

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363 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 4h32min.
Explores the metafictional strategies of contemporary African novels rather than characterizing them primarily as a response to colonialism.Explores the metafictional strategies of contemporary African novels rather than characterizing them primarily as a response to colonialism.The profound effects of colonialism and its legacies on African cultures have led postcolonial scholars of recent African literature to characterize contemporary African novels as, first and foremost, responses to colonial domination by the West. In Africa Writes Back to Self, Evan Maina Mwangi argues instead that the novels are primarily engaged in conversation with each other, particularly over emergent gender issues such as the representation of homosexuality and the disenfranchisement of women by male-dominated governments. He covers the work of canonical novelists Nadine Gordimer, Chinua Achebe, NguÅgiÅ wa Thiong'o, and J. M. Coetzee, as well as popular writers such as Grace Ogot, David Maillu, Promise Okekwe, and Rebeka Njau. Mwangi examines the novels' self-reflexive fictional strategies and their potential to refigure the dynamics of gender and sexuality in Africa and demote the West as the reference point for cultures of the Global South.Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Writing Back to Self 1. Genealogies and Functions of Self-Reflexive Fiction 2. (En)countering Sex in the Nationalist Canon 3. Potentials and Pitfalls of National Language Literatures 4. Orature and Deconstructed Folklore 5. Politicized Palimpsests and Gendered Intertexts 6. Painted Metaphors: The Gendered Deployment of Visual Arts 7. Refiguring (Out) Queer Sexualities 8. Gendered Theoretical Recalibrations Conclusion Notes Works Cited Index
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