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Multilingual Practices, Critical Literacies, and Visual Culture: A Focus on African Contexts
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Hoffman, James V.; Rogers, Theresa; Sailors, Misty; Tierney, Robert – Reading Research Quarterly, 2011
In this essay, we review and comment on three books that focus on language, literacy, and visual and cultural communication: "English as a Local Language: Post-Colonial Identities and Multilingual Practices" by Christina Higgins; "Literacy and Power" by Hilary Janks; and "South African Visual Culture," edited by…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Foreign Countries, Books, African Languages
A Critical Reading of the Disillusionment Novel.
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Obi, Joe E, Jr. – Journal of Black Studies, 1990
Contends that "disillusionment novels" are characterized by a circumscribed vision of the world which itself is a function of limits set upon the authors by the historical situation of their position in society. Analyzes two Nigerian classic examples of the genre, Chinua Achebe's "A Man of the People" and Wole Soyinka's…
Descriptors: African Culture, African Literature, Authors, Ideology
Feminism in the Literature of African Women.
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Bazin, Nancy Topping – Black Scholar, 1989
Discusses eight novels by the following female novelists from Africa: (1) Buchi Emecheta; (2) Flora Nwapa; (3) Bessie Head; and (4) Mariama Ba. Explores customs and attitudes that cause the most suffering to their female characters. Examines signs of change which suggest hope for the elimination of these causes. (JS)
Descriptors: African Culture, African Literature, Attitude Change, Authors