Indigeneity, Globalization, and African Literature

Literature remains one of the few disciplines that reflect the experiences, sensibility, worldview, and living realities of its people. Contemporary African literature captures the African experience in history and politics in a multiplicity of ways. Politics itself has come to intersect and impact on most, if not all, aspects of the African reality. This relationship of literature with African people's lives and condition forms the setting of this study. Tanure Ojaide's Indigeneity, Globalization, and African Literature: Personally Speaking belongs with a well-established tradition of personal reflections on literature by African creative writer-critics. Ojaide's contribution brings to the table the perspective of what is now recognized as a second generation writer, a poet, and a concerned citizen of Nigeria's Niger Delta area.

A frank and passionate celebration and defense of the dignity and desirability of the indigenous in an age of specious globalization. Literate, up-to-date, and wide-ranging, Indigeneity, Globalization, and African Literature is a welcome intervention by one of the most assiduous workers in the vineyard of African letters.-Niyi Osundare, Distinguished Professor, University of New Orleans, USA
A thoughtful, lucid, and much needed exploration of the dynamics of African literature in general and Nigerian literature in particular, with special reference to indigeneity and the pressures of globalization! The book is especially significant as coming from the pen of someone who has experienced the impact of various cultures and is himself actively involved in literary production.-Eustace Palmer, Professor of English, Georgia College, USA

Autorentext
Tanure Ojaide is Frank Porter Graham Professor in the Africana Studies Department at the University of North Carolina, USA.

Inhalt
Introduction

1. The Black Nationalist Movement in Azania
2. BC and its Fortunes After 1976

3. BC in the Postapartheid Era 4. Some Considerations in a Youth Political Movement

4. Youth Politics, Agency and Subjectivity
5. The Social Construction of Blackness in Azania
6. The Black Middle Class and Black Struggles
7. Culture and History in the Black Struggles for Liberation
8. Collaboration, Complicity and Selling Out
   In South Africa Historiography
9. Transference and Re (de) placement and
   The edge Towards a Postcolonial Conundrum 11. The Idea of the Nation in South Africa, 1940 to post 1994:
   Conceptualisations from the Black Liberation Movement
10. Symbols, Symbolism and the New Social Order