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	African literature - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		African literature generally refers to the novels, short stories, and poetry written by African writers during the 20th century.
		African literature in the late colonial period (between the end of World War I and independence) increasingly showed themes of liberation, independence, and (among Africans in French-controlled territories) négritude.
		With liberation and increased literacy since most African nations gained their independence in the 1950s and 1960s, African literature has grown dramatically in quantity and in recognition, with numerous African works appearing in Western academic curricula and on "best of" lists compiled at the end of the 20th century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/African_literature (697 words)

	Encyclopedia: African American literature
		African American literature tends to focus on themes of interest to Black people, such as the role of African Americans within the larger American society and issues such as African American culture, racism, religion, slavery, freedom, and equality.
		African Americans are also represented in the genre of science fiction, with Samuel R. Delany, Octavia E. Butler, Steven Barnes, and Nalo Hopkinson being just a few of the well-known authors.
		African American studies, or Black studies, is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to the study of the history, culture, and politics of African Americans.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/African-American-literature (10076 words)

	African Literature
		Despite the ignorance of most so called "literati" to the domain of African literature, African literature in fact is one of the main currents of world literature, stretching continuously and directly back to ancient history.
		African oral arts are "art's for life's sake" (Mukere) not European "art's for art's sake", and so may be considered foreign and strange by European readers.
		African Literature gains more and more momentum, and Professor James Ngugi even calls for the abolition of the English Department in the University of Nairobi, to be replaced by a Department of African Literature and Languages.
	www.unc.edu /~hhalpin/ThingsFallApart/literature.html (1140 words)

	African literature of the late colonial and early postcolonial eras -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		African literature of the 1950s was characterized by its focus on the disruptive effects of European colonialism on traditional African society.
		As African nations began to emerge from centuries of colonial rule, writers reflected on the imposition of Western values on the African people and examined the new conflicts that accompanied independence.
		African literature of the late colonial and early postcolonial eras...
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9313041 (946 words)

	African literature on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		African literature consists of a body of work in different languages and various genres, ranging from oral literature to literature written in colonial languages (French, Portuguese, and English).
		Some of the first African writings to gain attention in the West were the poignant slave narratives, such as The Interesting Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, the African (1789), which described vividly the horrors of slavery and the slave trade.
		French-speaking Africans in France, led by Léopold Senghor, were active in the négritude movement from the 1930s, along with Léon Damas and Aimé Césaire, French speakers from French Guiana and Martinique.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/a/africanlit.asp (986 words)

	Children's Literature
		A quick definition is "literature written for African children by African authors either in the vernacular or in a foreign language" (Meniru 1992:43).
		During the colonial period African children in government and missionary schools were introduced to children's literature that was alien to their experience.
		The South African Children's Literature Collection at UCT [see the same page for their historical Children's Literature Collection]: "Books published in South Africa from 1989 and exhibited annually by the Children's Book Forum of the Western Cape make up the core of this collection, apparently the only one of its kind in the country.
	web.uflib.ufl.edu /cm/africana/children.htm (1213 words)

	Dr. Webb's Teaching Resources: African Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Notice that the body of literature published in Africa for Africans is not the same as the body of African literature that is available in the United States.
		Ousmane Sembene, a francophone writer from Senegal, is regarded as one of the founding fathers of African literature.
		Under "Literature" there are pages for individual poets and for childrenís authors, including biographic information, and in some cases, excerpts from their writings.
	www.wmich.edu /teachenglish/subpages/literature/africanlit.htm (1776 words)

	South African literature - SouthAfrica.info
		Their attitude to indigenous South Africans was, at best, ambivalent, if not outright hostile.
		This is especially true of the writers of adventure-type stories, in which colonial heroes are romanticised and the role of fl South Africans was reduced to that of enemy or servant.
		The point of view is that of the heroic Englishman, and indigenous peoples are portrayed either as dangerous savages or given the role of the faithful servant, (Quartermain's Zulu retainer eventually gives his life for his master).
	www.southafrica.info /ess_info/sa_glance/culture/literature.htm (476 words)

	African Storytelling
		In contrast to written "literature," African "orature" (to use Kenyan novelist and critic Ngugi wa Thiong’o's phrase) is orally composed and transmitted, and often created to be verbally and communally performed as an integral part of dance and music.
		Everyone in most traditional African societies participate in formal and informal storytelling as interactive oral performance—such participation is an essential part of traditional African communal life, and basic training in a particular culture’s oral arts and skills is an essential part of children’s traditional indigenous education on their way to initiation into full humanness.
		Achebe discusses the African storyteller as griot in this interview: "the role of the writer, the modern writer, is closer to that of the griot, the historian and poet, than any other practitioner of the arts" (18).
	www.cocc.edu /cagatucci/classes/hum211/afrstory.htm (3241 words)

	African Literature: A Topc as Vast as a Continent
		African literature includes oral traditions (which are still very much alive), national language literatures (such as material written in Swahili in Kenya or Tanzania or Yoruba in Nigeria), Eurolanguage literatures, and especially because of literacy problems in Africa, many film and theater presentations."
		Once formal independence was achieved in each African country, the emphasis on responding to colonialism diminished, and we began to see local politics, gender politics, ethnic politics all coming into play.
		"There are at least three moments to consider whenever one reads literature: the moment you, the individual, are sitting in your chair, reading; the moment the author of that particular text is sitting in his or her chair, writing; and the moment of time the author is writing about in the text," Julien says.
	www.indiana.edu /~rcapub/v21n3/p16.html (1796 words)

	African Languages and Literature, UW-Madison
		The Department of African Languages and Literature of the University of Wisconsin-Madison invites applications for a tenure-track position at the assistant professor level.
		The mission of the Department of African Languages and Literature is to provide research and teaching in the areas of African languages, linguistics, literature, and oral traditions.
		The Department's mission is also to produce graduate students who are capable of conducting original research and of providing teaching of quality in African languages, linguistics, oral traditions, and literature; students who will assure the future strength and health of these fields, who will carry our work to other institutions and countries.
	african.lss.wisc.edu /all (480 words)

	African-American Literature
		Her interest in literature led her to write and publish Poems on Various Subjects in 1773.
		In the 1920s, fl writers and artists in Harlem led a flourishing new movement in literature, theatre, and jazz.
		Zora Neale Hurston's novel Their Eyes Were Watching God came out in the 30s, and Dorothy West published The Living is Easy, a novel detailing an upper-class fl family during World War I. The Renaissance paved the way for fl writers in subsequent decades.
	www.factmonster.com /spot/bhmlit1.html (991 words)

	Read about African literature at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research African literature and learn about African ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
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	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/African_literature (136 words)

	African Studies: African Literature
		Bibliography of criticism of South African literature in English (1996).
		African and comparative studies in literature and the social sciences; in French and English.
		Begun in Spring 1996, it is intended to serve primarily as a resource for students of postcolonial literature and theory at Emory University.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/lweb/indiv/africa/cuvl/aflit.html (2752 words)

	Modern African Literature
		This course is concerned with the literature of Africa south of the Sahara, not with exploring the sociology or history of Africa through its literature.
		And one reads African literature not only because it is African, but also because it is good writing that provides all the pleasures of an imaginative art form (intellectual, sensuous and emotional) to be enjoyed fully and richly.
		A study of African literature must begin with an introduction to its oral traditions even though we cannot seat ourselves around a rural campfire or enrich our daily conversation with appropriate tales and proverbs.
	www.emu.edu /courses/eng402a/eng402a.htm (783 words)

	African Literature vs. Literature about Africa
		Long before Africans started writing about Africa and their encounters with Europeans, Europeans had written (and continue to write) about their experiences in Africa.
		Africans, when they began to produce written literature, sometimes felt compelled to react to these novels.
		The seminar will attempt to analyse the relationship between African literature and literature about Africa and examine the strategies of writing and writing back.
	members.aol.com /AfriPalava2/AfLit.html (386 words)

	Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		She compiled a bibliography of the George Fortune collection of Shona language and other linguistics materials, and several guides to African language and literature related materials in our collection.
		Dozens of African writers and poets are highlighted on a set of web pages developed by the Africana staff of this library.
		The African Review of Books is a site dedicated to African publishing, authors and books, and related news and events.
	web.uflib.ufl.edu /cm/africana/literature.htm (215 words)

	Voices
		A substantial page for Francophone African poets in English translation is also now available, including brief biographical sketches as well as short excerpts from each author's work.
		The Voice of the Shuttle provides a good place to start researching humanities sources on the Web, with a section on African literature in English and another on non-English language African literature.
		It includes a bibliography of Francophone African women writers (in French), including several, such as the piece on Madame Dooh Bunya, which are also available in English translation.
	web.uflib.ufl.edu /cm/africana/writers.htm (616 words)

	African Literature and Writers on the Internet
		African Timelines, a chronology of literature and history from ancient Africa to the 1990s.
		Is the first international conference on African literature to be hosted in Berlin after the reunification of the two Germanies.
		It provides an invaluable resource for research on African literatures in a wide variety of languages and was one of the earliest centres for the study of African literatures in Europe." http://www.jahn-bibliothek.ifeas.uni-mainz.de/
	www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/ssrg/africa/lit.html (6281 words)

	Wheaton College: Library: English 245a - African Literature
		Black African Literature in English since 1952: Works and Criticism.
		Africa in Literature for Children and Young Adults.
		African Art Museum: On-line Reference to the Artistic Styles of Africa.
	www.wheatonma.edu /Library/Reference/instruction/f2002/eng245a.html (768 words)

	Welcome to African American Literature Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The purpose of this web site is to provide the reader with a comprehensive guide to African American Literature during the Twentieth Century.
		Also, we have provided you with some significant events of each decade and the literary themes that African American authors were writing about during that decade.
		This web site is targeted towards high school students because we felt they would be at a level of maturity that would allow them to have a better grasp of what the authors were writing about during that time period.
	www.geocities.com /afam_literature (249 words)

	African & Caribbean Literature - ELi Research Guides - UWF Libraries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Literature Resource Center incorporates Gale's Contemporary Author series, Contemporary Literary Criticism, (CLC) and the Dictionary of Literary Biography (DLB).
		Although this guide was designed to use with the Stanford library collections, researchers can be aware of the specialized bibliographies written for African literatures.
		To view this web page, go to Literature in English link; then select the Other Literature in English option in the table of contents in the right side.
	library.uwf.edu /eli/Arts/African.shtml (442 words)

	African American Literature
		This volume includes articles on "virtually every aspect of the history and development of the literature created by persons of African descent." In addition to short biographies of authors, plot summaries and sketches of major characters, it also provides essays on critical concepts and themes within African American literature.
		The full text of these items is available in the microfiche publication Black Literature, 1827-1940 (Fiche no. 2006), and may also be available in the general collections of the Morris Library.
		An author and subject index to African American journals published during the first half of the century.
	www2.lib.udel.edu /subj/blks/resguide/afrlit.htm (1830 words)

	Amazon.com: Myth, Literature and the African World (Canto): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The ways in which the African world perceives itself as a cultural whole that interconnects myth, ritual and literature and the differences between its essential unity and the sense of division pervading Western literature are emphasized in this classic analysis.
		I shall begin by commemorating the gods for their self-sacrifice on the altar of literature, and in so doing press them into further service on behalf of human society, and its quest for the explication of being.
		African Identities: Race, Nation and Culture in Ethnography, Pan-Africanism and Black Literatures by Kadiatu Kanneh on 4 pages
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0521398347?v=glance (845 words)

	San Antonio College LitWeb African American Literature Index
		The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano..., Written by Himself.
		Narrative of William W. Brown, A Fugitive Slave.
		DuBois, W.E.B., The Suppression of the African Slave Trade.
	www.accd.edu /sac/english/bailey/aframlit.htm (541 words)

	AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Having its origins in the slave narratives and the folktales transmitted orally during that period, the literature of the African American has been rich and varied.
		Today African American writers, such as Toni Morrison, Alex Haley, and Maya Angelou are recognized as among the most significant and popular authors in this country.
		The following topics are the major divisions in this section dealing with African American literature in general.
	www.usc.edu /isd/archives/ethnicstudies/africanamerican/black_lit_main.html (161 words)

	African American Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Provides a timeline of the African presence in the English Colonies and the United States, with special attention given to the state of South Carolina.
		Used as a handout for a literature course taught at William Patterson University in New Jersey.
		Although the journal is meant to promote new writing and younger writers, the editors are also mindful of their debt to African American literary elders, and include material by and about them.
	www.bluefield.wvnet.edu /library/afamlinks.htm (3669 words)

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