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En litterär resa genom det svarta Afrika : en bibliografisk vägledning till afrikansk skönlitteratur

Upphovsperson: Ruuth-Bäcker, Karin
Utgivare: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet | Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
År: 1981
Ämnesord: Bibliographies, Literature, literature, Litteraturvetenskap
Ett bra sätt, kanske t o m det bästa sättet, att skaffa sig kunskap om och förståelse för ett främmande lands kultur, tänkesätt och levnadsförhållanden är att läsa landets skönlitteratur. När det gäller afrikansk skönlitteratur kan det kanske ibland vara svårt att i Sverige skaffa sig en överblick över den rika litteratur som faktiskt finns. För att göra det lättare att orientera sig i afrikansk skönlitteratur har därför Nordiska afrikainstitutet producerat denna lilla vägledning.

Författarnas Afrika/Writers Africa with Zimbabwean author Petina Gappah in conversation with Stefan Helgesson, literary scholar from Stockholm University

Upphovsperson: Gappah, Petina
Utgivare: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
År: 2010
Ämnesord: Women, authors, authors, Zimbabwe, literature, literature, Litteraturvetenskap
Petina Gappah is a writer with law degrees from Cambridge, Graz University, and the University of Zimbabwe. She was one of the featured writers at this year’s Gothenburg Book Fair. Gappah's debut short story collection, An Elegy for Easterly (2009), was awarded the Guardian First Book Award and the collection was published in Swedish by Albert Bonniers Förlag in 2010. Its Swedish title is 'Sorgesång för Easterly'.

Writers, writing on conflict and wars in Africa

Medarbetare: Ndibe, Okey | Hove, Chenjerai
Utgivare: London : Adonis & Abbey Publishers Ltd. and Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
År: 2009
Ämnesord: literature, Novels, Authors, Artists, Culture, conflicts, Civil war, politics, Criticism, Africa, Litteraturvetenskap
Many African countries are caught up in perennial or recurrent political conflicts that often culminate in devastating wars. These flaring conflicts and wars create harrowing economic hardships, dire refugee problems, and sustain a sense of despair in such countries. By their nature, these conflicts and wars affect writers in profound and sometimes paradoxical ways. On the one hand, literature—whether fiction, poetry, drama, or even memoirs—is animated by conflict. On the other hand, the sense of dislocation as well as the humanitarian crises unleashed by wars and other kinds of conflicts also constitute grave impediments to artistic exploration and literary expression.  Writers and artists are frequently in the frontline of resistance to the kinds of injustices and abuses that precipitate wars and conflicts. Consequently, they are often detained, exiled, and even killed either by agents of state terror or by one faction or another in the tussle for state control.  Writers, Writing Conflicts and Wars in Africa is a collection of testimonies by various writers and scholars who have experienced, or explored, the continent’s conflicts and woes, including how the disruptions shape artistic and literary production.  The book is divided into two broad categories: in one, several writers speak directly, and with rich anecdotal details about the impact wars and conflicts have had in the formation of their experience and work; in the second, a number of scholars articulate how particular writers have assimilated the horrors of wars and conflicts in their literary creations.  The result is an invaluable harvest of reflections and perspectives that open the window into an essential, but until now sadly unexplored, facet of the cultural and political experience of African writers.  The broad scope of this collection—covering Darfur, the Congolese crisis, Biafra, Zimbabwe, South Africa, among others—is complemented by a certain buoyancy of spirit that runs through most of the essays and anecdotes.

100 vägar till Afrika : en introduktion till modern afrikansk skönlitteratur

Upphovsperson: Norström Ridæus, Barbro
Utgivare: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet | Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
År: 1995
Ämnesord: Bibliographies, Literature, Authors, Biographies, Africa, literature, Litteraturvetenskap
Skönlitteratur är en utmärkt förmedlare av kunskap om ett land, dess folk, kultur, tankesätt m m. I denna bok beskrivs utförligt över etthundra olika verk av afrikanska författare som finns översatta till svenska. Boken innehåller även biografier över författarna, en förteckning över artiklar om afrikanska författare och deras verk, samt en annoterad förteckning över internationella tidskrifter med kulturellt och litterärt innehåll.

Criticism and ideology

Medarbetare: Holst Petersen, Kirsten
Utgivare: Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
År: 1988
Ämnesord: South Africa, Southern Africa, Literature, African literature, Authors, Ideologies, Conf, literature, Litteraturvetenskap
This book contains contributions from African writers who discuss current issues in African literature, such as the role of the writer in society, the writers commitment to society or to the craft, a new woman's voice in literature, and recent South African literature, superseding the protest tradition.

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