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This article draws on Chinua Achebe’s fictional representations of the postcolony in two novels, No Longer at Ease and A Man of the People, to discuss the value of the African literary archive for an anthropological interest in elites, corruption and postcolonial decadence in the early postcolony.
- 6 - Orality and the genres of African postcolonial writing
What generic affinities exist between orality and literacy...
- 11 - Postcolonial writing in South Africa - Cambridge University Press ...
The advent of self-rule in 1910, the triumph of the National...
- 6 - Orality and the genres of African postcolonial writing
10 kwi 2016 · The Postcolonial stage saw satire, ambiguity and hybridity become the dominant motifs of much African fiction from the 1970 onwards. There was also a pronounced move away from realist narratives to more fragmentary and experimental styles.
What generic affinities exist between orality and literacy in African postcolonial writing? How do African postcolonial oral and literary works inscribe the conventions of orality and literacy? What, specifically, is postcolonial about these generic conventions?
Postcolonial Literature in Africa: An Overview
28 sty 2012 · The advent of self-rule in 1910, the triumph of the National Party in 1948, or the declaration of the republic in 1961, moments which elsewhere might be iconically postcolonial, in South Africa meant the entrenchment of white power and an extension of internal colonial-style control and exploitation.
Postcolonial modern literature, especially the earliest examples, are very similar to the oral literature prevalent in precolonial Africa. It is perhaps impossible to consider a literary work of the colonial era without reckoning with its ethical and moral undertone.
This paper attempts to trace the various vicissitudes of the evolution and development of African Literature: from oral literature, through pre-colonial literature, colonial literature, to post-colonial literature.
