Search results for ""Author Bernth Lindfors""
Africa World Press Early Black South African Writing In English
Book SynopsisExamines a pioneering generation of South African writers.
£21.21
Africa World Press Early Achebe
Book SynopsisA close look at the early work of Chinua Achebe.
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Conversations with Chinua Achebe
Book SynopsisThe interviews collected here span more than thirty years of Chinua Achebe's writing career. The earliest was recorded in 1962, the latest in 1995. Together they offer a representative sample of what he has said to interviewers for newspapers, journals, and books in many different countries.
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Africa World Press Early Soyinka
Book SynopsisSix essays on the writings of Nobel Prize-winning Nigerian author Wole Soyinka.
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Red Sea Press,U.S. African Literary Manuscripts And African Archives
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Red Sea Press,U.S. The Theatrical Career Of Samuel Morgan Smith
Book SynopsisThe incredible story of the second ever African American actor to find success on stage abroad.
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James Currey Black African Literature in English 19971999
Book SynopsisThis volume lists the work produced on anglophone black African literature between 1997 and 1999.This bibliographic work is a continuation of the highly acclaimed earlier volumes compiled by Bernth Lindfors. Containing about 10,000 entries, some of which are annotated to identify the authors discussed, it covers books, periodical articles, papers in edited collections and selective coverage of other relevant sources.Trade Review... how does he do it? The breadth of coverage is unparalleled. As a tool in the field of African literary studies, it is indispensable, as an exercise in organization and what is termed 'bibliographical control' it is breathtaking... Making the pre-eminent bibliographical resource in African literary studies available electronically is perhaps, a dream. I would not want to give up the print version, for it really is a resource where browsing pays off often in unexpected and most delightful ways, and despite the quibbles, there is no better resource available, not one I would trust more. - -- Mark L. Lilleleht * AFRICA TODAY *... the sixth in the series of this magisterial work, which began publication in 1979... is, like the rest, an immensely valuable reference tool. - -- Marion Wallace * FOCUS *True to form, Lindfors has produced a text suited to all levels of research, containing items to delight the curious browser and items for undergraduates and the professional scholar. - -- Stephanie Newell * AFRICAN RESEARCH & DOCUMENTATION *From reviews of earlier volumes in the series: * . *This excellent work will aid literary research on all levels and be an invaluable addition to any collection supporting work in African and world literature. - -- G. Walsh * CHOICE *So comprehensive is this volume, so enriched by forays into holdings in Africa and by the support of students, scholars, writers and critics around the world, that anyone wanting to do any work of substance on contemporary Black African Literature in English will simply have to get access to it. - -- James Gibbs * WEST AFRICA *... the book is handsomely produced ... It is the consummate working tool for researchers, scholars, teachers and students in the field. * RESEARCH IN AFRICAN LITERATURES *... one of the most valuable tools for research in the field of African studies. * MATATU *This title is essential for any reference collection in African studies ... far ahead of any imaginable rival... covers an extraordinary range of commentary. * AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW *As interest in African literature increases among both undergraduates and graduate students, Lindfors' compilations become increasingly essential. This supplement and its predecessors are invaluable reference tools that belong in collections supporting work in African or world literature. - -- D.L. Easterbrook, Northwestern University * CHOICE *Table of ContentsI Genre & Topic Studies & Reference Sources - II Individual Authors - Indexes: author index, titles index, subject index, geographical index
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James Currey The Dennis Brutus Tapes: Essays at autobiography
Book SynopsisPoet and anti-apartheid activist Dennis Brutus recorded a series of tapes in the 1970s which have been edited and annotated by Bernth Lindfors to give valuable insights into Brutus's life and works. Dennis Brutus (1924-2009) is known internationally as a South African poet, anti-apartheid activist and campaigner for human rights and the release of political prisoners. His literary works include Sirens Knuckles Boots (1963), Letters to Martha, and Other Poems from a South African Prison (1968), A Simple Lust (1973), and Stubborn Hope (1978). When Dennis Brutus was a Visiting Professor at The University of Texas at Austin in 1974-75, he recorded on tape a series of reflections on his life and career. In addition, he frequently responded to questions about his poetry and political activities put to him by students and faculty in formal and informal interviews that were also captured on tape. Transcripts of a selection of these tapes, as well as reprints of two interviews recorded earlier, are reproduced here in order to put on record fragments of the autobiography of a remarkable man who lived in extraordinary times and managed to leave his mark on the land and literature of South Africa. Brutus was an effective anti-apartheid campaigner who succeeded in getting South Africa excluded from the Olympics. His opposition to racial discrimination in sports led to his arrest, banning, and imprisonment on Robben Island. Upon release, he left South Africa and lived most of the rest of his life in exile, where he continued his political work and simultaneously earned an international reputation as a poet who often sang of his love for his country. The tapes are edited by Bernth Lindfors who has added an Introduction and a transcript of a 1970 interview as well as other transcripts of lectures and discussions. Bernth Lindfors is Professor Emeritus of English and African Literatures, The University of Texas at Austin, and founding editor of Research in AfricanLiteratures. He has written and edited numerous books on African literature, including Folklore in Nigerian Literature (1973), Popular Literatures in Africa (1991), Africans on Stage (1999), Early Soyinka (2008), and Early Achebe (2009).Trade ReviewAn exceptionally well-edited volume, greatly enriched by a comprehensive index and by succinct footnotes that offer essential biographical details. * JOURNAL OF THE AFRICAN LITERATURE ASSOCIATION *An important and useful publication. [...] Brutus emerges here as modest and self-critical, courageous and articulate, convinced of the need for political commitment and artistic integrity. * WASAFIRI *This collection valuably fills out our picture of Dennis Brutus. [...] Bernth Lindfors is to be commended for producing this posthumous tribute to one of South Africa's most significant writer-activists. * RESEARCH IN AFRICAN LITERATURES *[A] fascinating and highly readable volume. [Brutus'] fascinating account is greatly enriched by editor Lindfors who meticulously provides a succinctly footnoted biographical sketch of every individual identified in the story. * JOURNAL OF HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHY *A vivid and moving portrait of a man who contributed significantly, through his actions and words, to the fight against apartheid. [It] is a deeply informative and very personal portrait of both the public and private man. * LEEDS AFRICAN STUDIES BULLETIN *Table of ContentsIntroduction by the Editor - Part I: Life Recollections Family Background Attempt to Escape (Tapes 1, 2 and 3) Robben Island Interlude Notes on My Activities Notes on My Life - Part II: Writings Somehow Tenderness Survives Talking with Students Reviewing a Review On My Poetry On Literature and Commitment
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Africa World Press The Writer As Myth Maker: South Asian Perspective
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Ira Aldridge: The Last Years, 1855-1867
Book SynopsisThis final volume of Bernth Lindfors's definitive biography records the remarkable achievements and experiences of Ira Aldridge in the last years of his life, when he performed at theaters throughout Europe. Ira Aldridge The Last Years, 1855-1867, the fourth volume of Bernth Lindfors's definitive biography, places on record Aldridge's remarkable achievements and experiences in the final phase of his life, when he performed at theaters throughout Europe. His first Continental tour in 1852-1855 had been a spectacular success, and though he returned to Britain periodically afterwards, he spent much of the remainder of his career entertaining audiences in central and eastern Europe, mainly in Ukraine and Russia. His Shakespearean performances in St. Petersburg in 1858 and Moscow in 1862 were among his greatest triumphs and led to numerous appearances elsewhere in provincial cities and towns. During his forty-three years on stage in Europe, Ira Aldridge traveled more widely and won more honors, decorations, and awards than any other actor of his day. He is remembered not only as a talented thespian but also as a very visible representative of his race, someone who changed European perceptions of black people through the sheer brilliance of his artistry on stage. And by doing so, he helped to humanize the image of Africans andtheir descendants in Europe at an important transitional moment in history, when the movement to abolish slavery was gathering force and winning international acceptance. Bernth Lindfors is Professor Emeritus of English and African literatures at the University of Texas at Austin.Trade ReviewThrough his thorough mining of a vast array of European archives, Lindfors surpasses all previous studies in recounting the actions of, and wildly contradictory viewpoints towards, this seminal figure ... his absolute mastery of the sources and deep understanding of Aldridge and the period lead to probing insights. * THEATRE JOURNAL *With Ira Aldridge The Last Years, 1855-1867, Berth Lindfors concludes what will surely remain the definitive biography of the great nineteenth-century African American actor, Ira Aldridge, for many a decade ... Through an exhaustive search of local reviews and commentary he is able not only to follow Aldridge on his travels, but also to provide a wide range of observations on the actor's technique and artistic success. * RESEARCH IN AFRICAN LITERATURE *Winner of the Theatre Library Association's 2015 George Freedley Award Special Jury Prize * . *Lindfors's four-volume biography is destined to become the standard life of Aldridge, without equal in the future. Highly recommended. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction Readjusting to Britain Crim. Con. On the Road Again Stockholm The Second Continental Tour Pest and Buda A Short Break The Third Continental Tour Home Again The Fourth Continental Tour The Fifth Continental Tour The Sixth Continental Tour Taking a Break The Seventh Continental Tour Another Break The Eighth Continental Tour The Ninth Continental Tour Final Acts Postmortem Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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Africa World Press Long Drums And Canons
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MH - Indiana University Press Africans on Stage
Book SynopsisHow ethnological show business shaped European and American perceptions of Africa and Africans.Table of ContentsIntroductionZoe Strother, Display of the Body HottentotBernth Lindfors, Charles Dickens and the ZulusShane Peacock, Africa Meets the Great FariniVeit Erlmann, 'Spectatorial Lust': The African Choir in England, 1891-1893Robert W. Rydell, 'Darkest Africa': African Shows at America's World's Fairs, 1893-1940Jeffrey Green, A Strange Revelation in Humankind: Six Congo Pygmies in Britain, 1905-1907Harvey Blume, Ota Benga and the Barnum PerplexNeil Parsons, 'Clicko,' Franz Taaibosch, South African Bushman Entertainer in England, France, Cuba, and the United States, 1908-1940
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Ira Aldridge: Performing Shakespeare in Europe,
Book SynopsisThis book describes the "glory years" of Ira Aldridge's first Continental tour, during which he won more awards and honors, often conferred by royalty, than any other actor of his day. Ira Aldridge: Performing Shakespeare in Europe, 1852-1855, the third volume of Bernth Lindfors's award-winning biography, traces the American-born black classical actor's itinerary on his first Continental tour. Starting inBrussels and following Aldridge up the Rhine to Basel, on to Berlin and Vienna, and cities in Prussia and Hungary, Lindfors recounts the major performances and analyzes audience responses to them. Because European audiences wanted to see this "African" actor in Shakespearean roles rather than in the melodramas and farces that were popular in Britain, Aldridge concentrated almost exclusively on performing as Othello, Shylock, Macbeth, and Richard III. He performed the roles in English even when acting with local companies who spoke in German, Hungarian, or another European language. Aldridge's impressive manner of interpreting these characters won him many honors, awards, and medals, some bestowed by heads of state or by national academies. Drawing on myriad reviews, playbills, and letters, many of them penned by Aldridge himself, Lindfors examines in detail Aldridge's interpretations of these timeless characters and shows why these were Aldridge's glory years. Bernth Lindfors, professor emeritus of English and African Literatures, University of Texas at Austin, is the author of Ira Aldridge: The Early Years, 1807-1833 and Ira Aldridge: The Vagabond Years, 1833-1852, both published by the University of Rochester Press in 2011.Trade ReviewWinner of the Theatre Library Association's 2015 George Freedley Award Special Jury Prize * . *As a meticulously researched study with superb supplementary materials, Lindfor's book is a very valuable historical resource. * THEATRE SURVEY *The third volume of Bernth Lindfor's estimable multi-volume biography of Aldridge provides an in-depth, thoroughly researched account of Alridge's 1852-1855 Continental tour. * NEW THEATRE QUARTERLY *Recommended. * CHOICE *Bernth Lindfors's Aldridge series is a breathtaking and ambitious project of both superlative scholarship and the utmost historical importance, written in a precise, fluent, and charming style that is straightforward and authoritative. In Ira Aldridge: Performing Shakespeare in Europe, 1852-1855, Lindfors provides much new information on topics such as Aldridge's character, acting style, use of gesture and voice, performance strategies, and ideological disposition that will become anchoring reference points for future scholarship. --Colin Chambers, author of Black and Asian Theatre in Britain: A History * . *Table of ContentsIntroduction Making Up a Company Brussels Navigating up the Rhine Moving into the Interior Berlin On to Vienna Hungarian Rhapsodies Comparisons and Contrasts Personal and Personnel Matters Hungarian Rap Sheet Prussia, Germany, Switzerland Homeward Bound Interpreting Shakespeare Further Travels Appendixes Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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Africa World Press Early West African Writers: Amos Tutuola, Cyprian
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Africa World Press African Textualities
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Africa World Press Popular Literatures In Africa
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James Currey Black African Literature in English 19921996
Book SynopsisThis volume lists all the important work produced on anglophone black African literature between 1992 and 1996.This bibliographic work is a continuation of the earlier volumes compiled by Bernth Lindfors. Containing about 9000 entries, some of which areannotated to identify the authors discussed, it covers books, periodical articles, papers in edited collections and selective coverage of other relevant sources. Also included are a substantial number of African newspaper and magazine articles.Trade Review...this is another fine work. It is hoped that more sequels will follow.k in African and world literature.' - -- G. Walsh in Choice... comprehensive coverage ... a very easy book to consult ... It is a model of its kind. * AFRICAN AFFAIRS *... the book is handsomely produced ... It is the consummate working tool for researchers, scholars, teachers and students in the field. * RESEARCH IN AFRICAN LITERATURES *... one of the most valuable tools for research in the field of African studies. * MATATU *This title is essential for any reference collection in African studies ... Bernth Lindfors' regularly updated bibliography Black African Literature in English, now in its fifth edition, has over the past twenty-two years become the most comprehensive reference tool in the search for information in critical discussions of African literature in English. - Ode S. Ogede in * INTERNATIONAL FICTION REVIEW *The first question that comes to mind when looking at the latest volume in Bernth Lindfors' Black African Literature in English (BALE) series is: how does he do it? The breadth of coverage is unparalleled As a tool in the field of African literary studies, it is indispensable, as a exercise in organization and what is termed bibliographical control it is breathtaking. ...Making the pre-eminent bibliographical resource in African literary studies available electronically is perhaps, a dream. I would not want to give up the print version, for it is really is a resource where browsing pays off often in unexpected and most delightful ways, and despite the quibbles, there is no betterresource available, not one I would trust more. - -- Mark L Lilleleht * AFRICA TODAY *From reviews of earlier volumes in the series: * . *This excellent work will aid literary research on all levels and be an invaluable addition to any collection supporting work in African and world literature.- -- G. Walsh * CHOICE *So comprehensive is this volume, so enriched by forays into holdings in Africa and by the support of students, scholars, writers and critics around the world, that anyone wanting to do any work of substance on contemporary Black African Literature in English will simply have to get access to it. - -- James Gibbs * WEST AFRICA *... a remarkable achievement: it contains details of publications in many different languages, both African and European, and provides an impressive and essential resource for libraries. - -- Stephanie Newell * AFRICAN RESEARCH & DOCUMENTATION *Table of ContentsGenre, topic studies and reference sources; individual authors.
£137.75
Africa World Press Research On Wole Soyinka
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Ira Aldridge: The African Roscius
Book SynopsisDiverse essays on the life and career of one of the greatest tragic actors of the nineteenth century. Ira Aldridge -- a black New Yorker -- was one of nineteenth-century Europe's greatest actors. He performed abroad for forty-three years, winning more awards, honors, and official decorations than any of his professional peers. Billed as the "African Roscius," Aldridge developed a repertoire initially consisting of Shakespeare's Othello, melodramas about slavery, and farces that drew on his ability to sing and dance. By the time he began touring in Europe he was principally a Shakespearean actor, playing such classic characters as Shylock, Macbeth, Richard III, and King Lear. Although his frequent public appearances made him the most visible black man in the world by mid-nineteenth century, today Aldridge tends to be a forgotten figure, seldom mentioned in histories of British and European theater. This collection restores the luster to Aldridge's reputation by examining his extraordinary achievements against all odds. The early essays offer biographical information, while later essays examine his critical and popular reception throughout the world. Taken together, these diverse approaches to Aldridge offer a fuller understanding and heightened appreciation of a remarkable man who had an exceptionally interesting life and a spectacular career. Contributors: Cyril Bruyn Andrews, Nikola Batusic, Philip A. Bell, Keith Byerman, Ruth M. Cowhig, Nicholas M. Evans, Joost Groeneboer, Ann Marie Koller, Joyce Green MacDonald, Herbert Marshall, James J. Napier, Krzysztof Sawala, Gunner Sjögren, James McCune Smith, Hazel Waters, and Stanley B. Winters. Bernth Lindfors is Professor Emeritus of English and African Literatures at The University of Texas at Austin.Trade ReviewSucceeds at portraying Aldridge admirably. [.] Essential to scholars and researchers of theater and cultural history. It is a rewarding book, shedding light not only on the theater but also on race relations during a century fraught with issues of slavery and the attempt to eliminate human bondage. * AFRICAN AMERICAN REVIEW *Of particular interest for anyone interested in the local history of Manchester are Aldridge's appearances at antislavery events there. * ETHNICITY AND RACE IN A CHANGING WORLD: A REVIEW JOURNAL *The value of this volume is not only in the detailed and fascinating study of Aldridge's life and work. . . but. . . as a detailed, informative, and often original history of European nineteenth-century theater. -- Martin Banham * RESEARCH IN AFRICAN LITERATURES *This is a truly comprehensive coverage of the life and career of Ira Aldridge, a true pioneer who blazed a trail for African American artists to seek in Europe the fame and acceptance that eluded them in their own country. It deserves to be widely read, especially by anyone interested in African American transatlantic migrations and the history of race relations in Europe. --Oyekan Owomoyela, Ryan Professor of African Literature, University of Nebraska * . *I will value this book most for its inclusion of three very scarce nineteenth-century memoirs of Aldridge, and for its newly translated versions of twentieth century critical articles. Scholars of mid-nineteenth-century British and European social history will also value this collection, for the story of Aldridge's acceptance -- and the limitations on that acceptance -- in England and Europe, is very revealing. -- George A. Thompson, author of A Documentary History of the African TheatreSimply remarkable. An extraordinary conjunction of contemporary accounts and recent reflections that brings Aldridge alive for his time and ours. --University of the West of England, Bristol -- James Gibbs, University of the West of England, BristolOverall, the book presents a diverse range of essays that inform scholars and general readers in a manner both erudite and compelling. -- Baron Kelly * THEATRE JOURNAL *...Lindfors [brings] new sources and perspectives to [his] incisive and timely examination of Ira Aldrige's career as well as the larger cultural political issues surrounding the textual and physical representations of blackness in the nineteenth century. * THEATRE SURVEY, November 2009 *Table of ContentsMemoir and the Theatrical Career of Ira Aldridge, the African Roscius Ira Aldridge (1860) Men We Have Known: Ira Aldridge (1867) "Nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice": New Biographical Information on Ira Aldridge Ira Aldridge's Swedish Wife "African Tragedian" in a Golden Prague: Some Unpublished Correspondence A Garland of Love Letters Ira Aldridge's Fight for Equality Ira Aldridge in Manchester Acting Black: Othello, Othello Burlesques, and t he Performance of Blackness Ira Aldridge: Shakespeare and Minstrelsy "Mislike me not for my complexion . . . ": Ira Aldridge in Whiteface Ira Aldridge as Macbeth and King Lear Creating the Black Hero: Ira Aldridge's The Black Doctor The First American on the Zagreb Stage A Heartwarming, Radiant Othello in the Netherlands, 1855 Ira Aldridge's Performances in Meiningen "Othello's Occupation's Gone!": The African Roscius in Poland, 1853-67
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Broadview Press Ltd Guanya Pau: A Story of an African Princess
Book SynopsisThe first book of long fiction by an African to be published in English, this novel tells the story of a young woman of the Vai people in Liberia. Guanya Pau, betrothed as a child to a much older, polygamous man, flees her home rather than be forced into marriage, and the novel recounts her subsequent efforts to reach the Christian community where the man she loves awaits her. Joseph Jeffrey Walters was a Vai man who converted to Christianity, and this, his only novel, is a remarkably complex work, embracing both Christian beliefs and a deep pride in his African heritage.This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction that locates the novel in the context of Vai culture and the history of African missions, and a rich selection of historical documents relating to the education of African women, the Vai writing system, and the author’s life.Trade Review“Arguing against polygamy and child betrothals and insisting on equal rights for women, Guanya Pau merits recognition as the first feminist novel written by an African. In an excellent introduction, Griffiths and Singler provide an impressive amount of information on this pioneering text and its author.” — Bernth Lindfors, University of Texas at AustinTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionJoseph Jeffrey Walters: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextIntroductory Notes to Guanya PauGuanya Pau: A Story of an African PrincessAppendix A: From Sir Arthur Helps, Friends in Council (1853)Appendix B: Charles C. Penick, “The Devil Bush of West Africa” (1893)Appendix C: Excerpts from three books by Thomas Besolow (1890, 1891, 1892)Appendix D: The Vai Writing SystemAppendix E: Letters and Articles by Joseph Jeffrey Walters To Mrs. Louise Wood Brackett, 5 October 1888 To the Editor, Oberlin News (7 April 1892) To the Rev.William S. Langford, 15 May 1893 To the Rev. Joshua A. Kimber, 2 June 1893 To the Rev. Joshua A. Kimber, 12 October 1893 “An Appeal for Help,” Oberlin News (30 November1893) From “A Letter from Africa,” Baltimore American (21 January1894) To the Rev. Joshua A. Kimber, 5 June 1894 Annual Report and Scholarship List, Cape Mount Mission,13 August 1894 To the Rev. Joshua A. Kimber, 17 September 1894 Appendix F: Obituaries of Joseph Jeffrey Walters From The Storer Record (February 1895) From The Oberlin Review (6 February 1895) Bibliography
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Africa World Press The Blind Men And The Elephant
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Ngugi wa Thiongo Speaks
Book SynopsisNgugi's words lead to a deeper understanding of colonial and postcolonial history.Table of ContentsBooks by Ngugi wa Thiong'o - Introduction by the Editors - Chronology - Interviews from 1964 to 2003 - Bibliography of interviews - Critical Studiies of Ngugi wa Thiong'o
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