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Africa in the world & the world in Africa : essays in honor of Abiola Irele / edited by Biodun Jeyifo.

Title
Africa in the world & the world in Africa : essays in honor of Abiola Irele / edited by Biodun Jeyifo.
Publication
Trenton, N.J. : Africa World Press, c2011.

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Additional Authors
  • Irele, Abiola.
  • Jeyifo, Biodun, 1946-
Description
xvii, 321 p.; 22 cm.
Alternative Title
Africa in the world and the world in Africa
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction -- Part one. Irele as prism. Meditations, mediations and historicity in the work of Abiola Irele / Jean-Godefroy Bidima; Literary Africa / Olakunle George; After us, penultimate, barbarisms? / Biodun Jeyifo; The hearth and the world: cultural identity and African literary criticism / Mpalive-Hangson Msiska; On postcoloniality and alienation: Abiola Irele's "In praise of alienation" reconsidered / Tejumola Olaniyan -- Part two. Beyond the horizons of the present. The humanities and a new ethics of locality in Africa / Moradeun Adejunmobi; the ambiguous adventures of Caryl Philips' Tim Cribb / Akin Adesokan; Antigone in Yorubaland / Femi Osofisan; Re-thinking the critical location of Kamau Brathwaite and Derek Walcott / Elaine Savory; Creative pursuit in global Time / Wole Soyinka -- Part three. Irele writes back. Abiola Irele interviewed / by Elaine Savory.
ISBN
  • 159221827X (hardcover)
  • 9781592218271 (hardcover)
  • 1592218288 (pbk.)
  • 9781592218288 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^2011012165
OCLC
710816325
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library