The African imagination: Postcolonial studies, canons, and stigmatization
| dc.contributor.author | Garuba, Harry | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-11-28T13:08:03Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-11-28T13:08:03Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2003 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2017-11-26T15:13:29Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | In 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. | |
| dc.identifier | http://dx.doi.org/- | |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Garuba, H. (2003). The African imagination: Postcolonial studies, canons, and stigmatization. <i>Research in African Literatures</i>, http://hdl.handle.net/11427/26429 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Garuba, Harry "The African imagination: Postcolonial studies, canons, and stigmatization." <i>Research in African Literatures</i> (2003) http://hdl.handle.net/11427/26429 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Garuba, H. (2003). The African imagination: Postcolonial studies, canons, and stigmatization. Research in African Literatures, 34(4), 145-149 | |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Journal Article AU - Garuba, Harry AB - In 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. DA - 2003 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town J1 - Research in African Literatures LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2003 T1 - The African imagination: Postcolonial studies, canons, and stigmatization TI - The African imagination: Postcolonial studies, canons, and stigmatization UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/26429 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/26429 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Garuba H. The African imagination: Postcolonial studies, canons, and stigmatization. Research in African Literatures. 2003; http://hdl.handle.net/11427/26429. | en_ZA |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.publisher.department | Department of English Language and Literature | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Humanities | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Cape Town | |
| dc.source | Research in African Literatures | |
| dc.source.uri | https://aaas.osu.edu/about/publications/ral | |
| dc.subject.other | African literature | |
| dc.subject.other | education | |
| dc.subject.other | culture | |
| dc.subject.other | Educational Support Services | |
| dc.subject.other | Administration of Education Programs | |
| dc.subject.other | The African Imagination | |
| dc.subject.other | Abiola Irele | |
| dc.title | The African imagination: Postcolonial studies, canons, and stigmatization | |
| dc.type | Journal Article | |
| uct.type.filetype | Text | |
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