ABSTRACT

Engaging and interrogating the idea of a ‘Global Africa’, this book examines how African literary and cultural productions have changed over the years due to the social and political influences brought about by increased globalisation. Tanure Ojaide takes a variety of European theoretical concepts and applies these to African literature, oral traditions, culture, sexuality, political leadership, environmentalism, and advocacy, demonstrating the universality of the African experience.

Challenging African literary artists and scholars to think creatively about the future of the culture and literature, this new collection of literary and cultural criticism from scholar-writer Tanure Ojaide is an essential read for students and scholars of African literature and culture.

chapter 1|7 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|11 pages

John Barth and modern African literature

Exhaustion and replenishment

chapter 3|15 pages

Michel Foucault and the Urhobo Udje oral poetic tradition

Madness, power, and resistance

chapter 4|17 pages

Losing cultural ground in the global space

Africa’s profit and loss in globalization

chapter 5|15 pages

Environmentalism in African literature

Origins and development

chapter 7|11 pages

African literature of advocacy

chapter 9|9 pages

The present in the everlasting

Overcoming contemporaneity in African poetry

chapter 11|10 pages

Theorizing African literature

chapter 12|6 pages

Conclusion

Toward a new African literature in a global age