Author : Samson Kamara
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 12,45 MB
Release : 2011-06-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1450243967
A collection of stories for fun and relaxation. All the stories are fictitious and intended for fun but each one carried a hidden message and a brief look into African folk tales. These stories were told around the fire in the village square in the moon light This was the the process of passing history and tradition to children as the only way of teaching in the traditional African setting
Author : Israel Oyerinde Omotosho
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 42,27 MB
Release : 2008-12-05
Category : Humor
ISBN : 1304511057
The author of this book, Prince Israel Oyerinde Omotosho, has compiled more than 120 jokes and short stories for your enjoyment. The jokes and stories are contextually based in Nigeria, West Africa. They will make you laugh till your ribs protest!
Author : Denis Hirson
Publisher : Heinemann
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,11 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780435906726
All by writers who spent their formative years in South Africa, this diverse range of short stories spans from the end of World War II when the National Party was on the upsurge, to the early 1990s when the legal framework of apartheid was abolished, the ANC was legalized and Mandela was released.
Author : Helon Habila
Publisher : Granta Books
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 26,98 MB
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1847084389
Presenting a diverse and dazzling collection from all over the continent, from Morocco to Zimbabwe, Uganda to Kenya. Helon Habila focuses on younger, newer writers - contrasted with some of their older, more established peers - to give a fascinating picture of a new and more liberated Africa. These writers are characterized by their engagement with the wider world and the opportunities offered by the end of apartheid, the end of civil wars and dictatorships, and the possibilities of free movement. Their work is inspired by travel and exile. They are liberated, global and expansive. As Dambudzo Marechera wrote: 'If you're a writer for a specific nation or specific race, then f*** you." These are the stories of a new Africa, punchy, self-confident and defiant. Includes stories by: Fatou Diome; Aminatta Forna; Manuel Rui; Patrice Nganang; Leila Aboulela; Zo Wicomb; Alaa Al Aswany; Doreen Baingana; E.C. Osondu.
Author : Rachel Zadok
Publisher : New Internationalist
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 50,92 MB
Release : 2016-03-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1780263112
Short Story Day Africa presents its annual anthology. The stories explore true and alternative African culture through a competition on the theme of Water. This is the third in the SSDA collection of anthologies, which aim to break the one-dimensional view of African storytelling and fiction writing. Short Story Day Africa brings together writers, readers, booksellers, publishers, teachers, and school children from all over the globe to write, submit, read, workshop, and discuss stories. Rachel Zadok is the author of two novels: Gem Squash Tokoloshe (2005) and Sister-Sister (2013). Nick Mulgrew is a freelance editor and a columnist for the Sunday Times, South Africa.
Author : Marta Fossati
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 16,93 MB
Release : 2024-09-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0198910991
Through detailed close readings alongside investigations into the history of print culture, Marta Fossati traces the development of the South African short story in English from the late 1920s to the first decade of the twenty-first century. She examines a selection of short stories by important Black South African writers (Rolfes and Herbert Dhlomo, Peter Abrahams, Can Themba, Alex La Guma, Mtutuzeli Matshoba, Ahmed Essop, and Zoë Wicomb) with an alertness to the dialogue between ethics and aesthetics performed by these texts. This new history of Black short fiction problematises and interrogates the often-polarised readings of Black literature in South Africa that can be torn between notions of literariness, protest, and journalism. Due to material constraints, short fiction in South Africa circulated first and foremost through local print media, which Fossati analyses in detail to show the cross-fertilisation between journalism and the short story. While rooted in the South African context, the short stories considered also hold a translocal dimension, allowing us to explore the ethical and aesthetic practice of intertextuality. These are writings that complicate the aesthetics/ethics binary, generic classifications, and the categories of the literary and the political. Theoretically eclectic in its approach, although largely underpinned by a narratological analysis, The South African Short Story in English, 1920-2010: When Aesthetics Meets Ethics offers a fresh perspective on the South African short story in English, spotlighting several hitherto marginalised figures in South African literary studies.
Author : Rebecca Fasselt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 37,46 MB
Release : 2022-03-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1000562409
This book considers the key critical interventions on short story writing in South Africa written in English since the year 2000. The short story genre, whilst often marginalised in national literary canons, has been central to the trajectory of literary history in South Africa. In recent years, the short story has undergone a significant renaissance, with new collections and young writers making a significant impact on the contemporary literary scene, and subgenres such as speculative fiction, erotic fiction, flash fiction and queer fiction expanding rapidly in popularity. This book examines the role of the short story genre in reflecting or championing new developments in South African writing and the ways in which traditional boundaries and definitions of the short story in South Africa have been reimagined in the present. Drawing together a range of critical interventions, including scholarly articles, interviews and personal reflective pieces, the volume traces some of the aesthetic and thematic continuities and discontinuities in the genre and sheds new light on questions of literary form. Finally, the book considers the place of the short story in twenty-first century writing and interrogates the ways in which the short story form may contribute to, or recast ideas of, the post-apartheid or post-transitional. The perfect guide to contemporary short story writing in South Africa, this book will be essential reading for researchers of African literature.
Author : Herman Wasserman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 40,33 MB
Release : 2010-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1136911618
This book examines the role that popular media could play to encourage political debate, provide information for development, or critique the very definitions of ‘democracy’ and ‘development’.
Author : Tony Martin
Publisher : The Majority Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 15,77 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780912469096
The real roots of the Harlem Renaissance lie in,the Garvey Movement. This volume presents a rich,treasury of literary criticism, book reviews,poetry, short stories, music, art appreciation and,polemics on the Black aesthetic and other never,before published literary and cultural writings of,Garvey's Harlem Renaissance.
Author : Bev Hogue
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 13,63 MB
Release : 2023-08-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1603296166
From Shakespeare to The Simpsons, comedy has long provided both entertainment and social commentary. It may critique cultural values, undermine authority, satirize sacred beliefs, and make room for the marginalized to approach the center. Comedy can be challenging to teach, but in the classroom it can help students connect with one another, develop critical thinking skills, and engage with important issues. The essays in this volume address a rich variety of texts spanning film, television, stand-up, cartoons, and memes as well as conventional literary works from different places and times. Contributors offer theoretical foundations and practical methods for a broad range of courses, including guidance on contextualizing the humor of historical works and on navigating the ways that comedy can both subvert and reinforce stereotypes. Finally, the volume argues for the value of comedy in difficult times, as a way to create community and meaning. This volume contains discussion of fiction, poetry, plays, and essays by Maya Angelou, Jane Austen, Aphra Behn, Hugh Henry Brackenridge, Frances Burney, Charles W. Chesnutt, Roddy Doyle, Maria Edgeworth, Ben Jonson, Anita Loos, Emtithal Mahmoud, Thomas Middleton, Okot p'Bitek, William Shakespeare, Laurence Sterne, Jonathan Swift, Alma Villanueva, Paula Vogel, Oscar Wilde, John Wilmot, and William Wycherley; TV shows and films including Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, The Gold Rush, Life Is Beautiful, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, The Office, Office Space, Rick and Morty, and South Park; works and stand-up performances by Aziz Ansari, Samantha Bee, Dave Chappelle, Louis C.K., Tina Fey, Moms Mabley, Hasan Minhaj, Eddie Murphy, Trevor Noah, Richard Pryor, Issa Rae, and Wanda Sykes; and visual works and other media including Aaron McGruder's The Boondocks, Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes, Nick Sousanis's Unflattening, Marvel's Hawkeye, The Onion, YouTube videos, advertisements, and memes.
