Intertextuality in Contemporary African Literature
Looking Inward
Bloomsbury Academic · Print & ebook · August 18, 2011
Intellectual exchange among African creative writers is the subject of this highly innovative and wide-ranging look at several forms of intertextuality on the continent.
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- Who it’s for
- Ode Ogede examines how African writers reuse canonical texts and draw on local literary traditions.
- Genres
- African Lit Crit, Comparative Literature, Literary Theory
- Published
- Bloomsbury Academic, August 18, 2011
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Intellectual exchange among African creative writers is the subject of this highly innovative and wide-ranging look at several forms of intertextuality on the continent. Focusing on the issue of the availability of old canonical texts of African literature as a creative resource, this study throws light on how African authors adapt, reinterpret, and redeploy existing texts in the formulation of new ones.
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Contemporary African writers are taking advantage of and extending the resources available in the existing native literary tradition. But the field of inter-ethnic/trans-national African literary inter-textual studies is a novel one in itself as the theme of African writers' debt to Euro-American authors has been the critical commonplace in African literature. Detailing the echoes and reverberations the voices of the past have generated, and the distinctive uses to which the writers are putting one another's works, the book demonstrates that the influence of local stock is significant: it is pervasive and widespread, and manifests itself in ways both random and systematic, but it is a ubiquitous presence in the African literary imagination.
Literary Echoes
Ode Ogede examines how African writers reuse canonical texts and draw on local literary traditions.
Come here for
- How African writers adapt and reinterpret earlier literary texts
- The echoes of past works in contemporary African writing
Expect
- Attention to inter-ethnic and transnational literary exchange
- Examples of both random and systematic influence
Where it sits
| African Lit Crit | 91% |
|---|---|
| Comparative Literature | 75% |
| Literary Theory | 26% |
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Publisher categories
- Creative Writing
- Authors
- Ode Ogede
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic
- Published
- August 18, 2011
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Creative Writing