{"product_id":"african-literature-and-intellectual-histories-9780796926739","title":"African Literature and Intellectual Histories","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNtongela Masilela (19482020) is perhaps best known for collecting, archiving, and expounding on the works of South African and other African intellectuals most notably members of the New African Movement who historically had been overlooked or forgotten. Busani Ngcaweni presents a  selection of Masilela's most important essays, prefacing each with an illuminating introduction that places the work in historical context and highlights its significance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONTENTS: \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWriting in the Latter Years of the Interregnum Period and in the New South Africa Era: An Introduction.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIssues in the Historiography of South African Literature.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHistorical Problematics in Black South African Literature.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBlack South African Literature from the Sophiatown Renaissance to Black Mamba Rising: Transformations and Variations from the 1950s to the 1980s.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLanguage as a Culture Issue in Africa Today.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e A Moment of Reflection on the Occasion of the Eleventh Commemoration of the June 1976 Uprising.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Political Forms and Cultural Processes of a Particular South African Exile.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUmoja Centre as a Continuation of the Pan-Africanist Tradition in the Present Context.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat Was the New African Movement? A Conversation with Sandile Ngidi.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat Was the H.I.E. Dhlomo Centre for African Intellectual History? Mbukeni H. Mngubi Interviews Ntongela Masilela.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Return of Mazisi Kunene to South Africa: The End of an Intellectual Chapter in Our Literary History.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAfrica in America and America in Africa: The Politics of Cultural Reciprocity.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Trans-Atlantic Connections of the New African Movement.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Cavalcade of Artistic Forms in Contemporary South Africa.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Fated Intellectual Snapshot of a Disappeared Literary Generation.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Historical Significance of China for South Africa in the Second Decade of the Twenty-First Century.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eForeshadowings in the Making of an African Renaissance.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Lynne Rienner Pub","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038176280919,"sku":"9780796926739","price":33.72,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780796926739.jpg?v=1750939364","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/african-literature-and-intellectual-histories-9780796926739","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}