Exploitation and Misrule in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa

Exploitation and Misrule in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa

Kalu, Kenneth; Falola, Toyin

Springer International Publishing AG

10/2018

303

Dura

Inglês

9783319964959

15 a 20 dias

544


ebook

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1. Introduction: Exploitation, Colonialism, and Postcolonial Misrule in Africa.- Section I. Encounters: Texts, Images, and Fiction.- 2. Rupturing Neocolonial Legacies in the African Novel: Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Matigari as a Paradigm.- 3. Decolonial Visions in Mid-Twentieth-Century African Rhetoric: Perspectives from Kwame Nkrumah's Consciencism.- 4. Images of Colonialism in the Text of Two African Female Poets.- 5. Migration and Exile: The Exotic Essence of Life in Bessie Head's When Rain Clouds Gather.- 6. Ingrid de Kok's "A Room Full of Questions" and South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission.- 7. Identity, the "Passing" Novel, and the Phenomenology of "Race".- Section II. Encounters: Spaces of Subjugation and Dominance.- 8. Precolonial Imaginaries and Colonial Legacies in Mobutu's "Authentic" Zaire.- 9. World War II and West African Soldiers in Asia, 1943-1947.- 10. A Colonizing Agricultural Company in Somalia: The Duke of Abruzzi's Societa Agricola Italo-Somala in the Italian Colonial Fascist System.- 11. The Magical Hour of Midnight: The Annual Commemorations of Rhodesia's and Transkei's Independence Days.- 12. Colonial Ideologies and the Emergence of Two Spaces: The Nigerian Experience.
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postcolonial African state;Political independence in Africa;African nationalism;Kwame Nkrumah;Reconciliation in South Africa;King Leopold II and the Congo;President Mobutu;African soldiers in the Second World War;apartheid South Africa;Zaire;Ngugi wa Thiong'o;the African novel;postcolonial literary criticism;African rhetoric;Alda do Espirito Santo;Maria Manuela Margarido;Bessie Head;Ingrid de Kok;Italian colonialism;colonial Nigeria