Annie Gagiano

Dealing with Evils. (eBook, PDF)

Essays on Writing from Africa

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Annie Gagiano addresses more than twenty texts from various African regions and periods, ranging from transcriptions of ancient folktales to classic African English texts and recent writings on social and gender issues. Gagiano focuses on these texts' engagement with the forces that damage and threaten life in Africa and these authors' political courage, social concern, and subtle delineation of their characters' experiences. A new preface and several new essays bring the collection up to date with the latest developments in the field.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: ibidem
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783838266879
• Artikelnr.: 49719109

Autorenporträt

Annie Gagiano has taught literature since the seventies in the English Department of the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa, where she is at present a professor emeritus and research associate. Her teaching has focused particularly on African and postcolonial literature, Shakespeare, and poetry. Her numerous articles have appeared in academic journals and in edited collections of essays in South Africa, Europe, Asia, and the U.S.A. Her book, "Achebe, Head, Marechera: On Power and Change in Africa" (2000), was published in the United States and Britain by Lynne Rienner. At a more popular level she writes the regular column "The African Library" on classic and contemporary African texts for the electronic magazine "LitNet". The first edition of "Dealing with Evils" was published by ibidem in 2008.