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Description:: This dissertation examines the impact of sound on the African literary imagination since the 1970s. I posit the sonority of postcolonial African writing in order to draw out the relatively ignored but remarkably rich stylistic innovations and political interventions oriented around sound. While the orality–textuality debate in African literary studies...
Keyword:: African novel, postcolonial literature, sound studies, orality, voice, and Dambudzo Marechera
Subject:: Comparative literature, African literature, and African studies
Creator:: Newman, Scott Peter
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_758547 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15205

Description:: After spending most of her flight back to Ghana writing a letter to her estranged lover, Sissie, Ama Ata Aidoo’s protagonist in Our Sister Killjoy, observes the actions of her fellow passengers and reads the atmosphere onboard the airplane as that of “another human market-place.” Sissie’s statement transports into her...
Keyword:: airplane, transnational, air, airport, mobility, and flight
Subject:: Black studies, African literature, and English literature
Creator:: Kumavie, Francisca Delali
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15124 and etdadmin_upload_743910

Description:: The objective of this dissertation is to examine the mutually constitutive relationship between historiography, collective memory, and cultural narratives in the representation of the Algerian War of Independence (1954–1962) in present-day France and Algeria. Taking the turn of the twenty-first century as its point of departure, this study analyzes modern...
Keyword:: Algerian literature, Algerian War of Independence, French literature, Memory studies, Torture, and Postcolonialism
Subject:: French literature and African literature
Creator:: Grimm, Rachel Mihuta
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15143 and etdadmin_upload_744294

Description:: Viral Verses investigates the influence of social media publication on the relationship between poetry and community formation in southeastern Africa. As more artists in the global South reach wider audiences through online publication, poetic form has shifted to reflect social media’s aesthetic norms, embracing urgency, contemporaneity, and populism. Digital media...
Keyword:: Aesthetic networks, Southeastern Africa, Literary history, Social media, Poetry and poetics, and Poetry performance
Subject:: Sociology, Literature, and African literature
Creator:: Sacks, Susanna L
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_666603 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14695

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