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- ItemOpen AccessExploring the novels of Zakes Mda(2012) Fincham, GailLecture series presented by Associate Professor Gail Fincham, Department of English, University of Cape Town. This lecture series, focusing on the novels of famous South African author Zakes Mda, will be of interest to students of African literature and lovers of literature more generally.
- ItemOpen AccessThe African imagination: Postcolonial studies, canons, and stigmatization(2003) Garuba, HarryIn the prefatory remarks to his new book, The African Imagination, Abiola Irele traces the trajectory of his professional career from his initial location in Africa to his present base in an American university. The Africa phase of his career, he emphasizes, was marked by an awareness that he was involved in the definition and mapping of a distinctive terrain of imaginative expression and a new academic field known as African literature within the context of a local community of scholars and students mutually engaged in a cultural activity that they felt was central to the needs of an evolving national community. In relocating to the center of the Western academy in the United States, he continues, he now pursues his professional career in an environment within which this literature is marginal. Indeed, the literature is not only marginal, it is more often secondary, serving only to provide validating material for other disciplines and/or evidence for consolidating the paradigms of dominant discourses or epistemologies.