African cultures and literatures: a miscellany

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Title:	African cultures and literatures: a miscellany
Editor:	Collier, Gordon
Year:	2013
Periodical:	Matatu: Journal for African Culture and Society (ISSN 0932-9714)
Volume:	41
Pages:	544
Language:	English
City of publisher:	Amsterdam
Publisher:	Rodopi
ISBN:	9789042036475; 9789401209151
Geographic term:	Africa
Subjects:	literature writers culture
External link:	https://brill.com/view/journals/mata/41/1/mata.41.issue-1.xml
Abstract:	The first section of this issue of 'Matatu' contains three articles on literature in general, notably African women's poetry, anglophone Cameroonian literature, and Zimbabwean fiction of the Gukurahundi period. The second section offers studies on individual writers, viz. J.M. Coetzee, Kalpana Lalji, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Aminata Sow Fall, Wole Soyinka, and Yvonne Vera. The third section includes creative writing by Pede Hollist, H. Oby Okolocha, Tabitha Wania Mwanga, and Felix M. Muchomba, and poems by several South African writers. The bulk of the issue, in section four, covers cultural and sociological topics from North Africa to the Cape, ranging from cultural identity in contemporary North Africa, Kenyan naming ceremonies and initiation songs, and the function of Shona and Ndebele proverbs, to national history in Zimbabwean autobiography, traditional mourning dress of the Akan of Ghana, and the precolonial origins of traditional leadership in South Africa. [ASC Leiden abstract]