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- Edfeldt, Chatarina, 1963-, et al.
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Northern Crossings : Translation, Circulation and the Literary Semi-periphery
- 2022
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Bok (refereegranskat)abstract
- This open access book uses Swedish literature and the Swedish publishing field as recurring examples to describe and analyse the role of the literary semi-peripheral position in world literature from various perspectives and on meso, micro and macro levels, using both quantitative and qualitative methods. This includes the role of translation in the semi-periphery and the conditions under which literature travels to and from that position. The focus is not on Sweden, as such, but rather on the semi-peripheral transitional space as exemplified by the Swedish case.Consisting of three co-written chapters, this study sheds light on what might be called the semi-peripheral condition or the semi-periphery as an area of transition. As part of the Cosmopolitan and Vernacular Dynamics in World Literatures series, it makes continuous use of the concepts of 'cosmopolitan' and 'vernacular' – or rather, the processual terms, cosmopolitanization and vernacularization – which provide an overall structure to the analysis of literature and literary phenomena. In this way, the authors show that the semi-periphery is an ideal point of departure to further the understanding of world literature, because it is a place where the cosmopolitan (the literary universal) and the vernacular (the rootedness in a particular culture or place) interact in ways that have not yet been thoroughly explored.
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- Laajala, Kalle, et al.
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African Street Literature and the Future of Literary Form
- 2019
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Ingår i: African research & documentation. - 0305-862X. ; :134, s. 12-21
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This text is about an ongoing research project about contemporary African literature that circulates outside the infrastructures of the global book market. The researchers involved in the project are based at Uppsala University, Sweden, and collaborate closely with librarians at the Nordic Africa Institute where a small collection of ephemeral, often self-published texts is being established. This collection is a part of the book collection at the Nordic Africa Institute’s library, but can be accessed as a sub-collection in the library catalogue. The article is co-authored by one of the researchers and two of the librarians and is organized into two main sections: one is written from the perspective of the researchers who collect and study the material. This section outlines the project, its scope, general research questions and how texts have been collected. The second part is written from the perspective of the librarians, presents some of the possibilities and challenges involved in cataloguing the material and the ways in which it differs from the rest of the library collection.
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Culture in Africa : an appeal for pluralism
- 1993
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Proceedings (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The essays in this publication range from poetry and drama to church music, architecture, and popular magazines. Common to them is the effort to make the disciplines of arts and those of social sciences meet. African cultural expressions are treated here as anchored in the experiences common to the people of Africa, while the provincial exclusiveness of Afrocentrism is shunned.
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- Eriksson Baaz, Maria, 1971, et al.
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Same and other : negotiating African identity in cultural production
- 2001
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The idea of African Otherness has occupied a central role in discourses on cultural production in Africa, whether film, literature, music or the arts. These claims, articulated both by 'Western' and 'African' critics and consumers, means that particular criteria and standards are adopted in relation to cultural production in Africa. The claim to African Otherness is gaining new strength in the wake of globalisation, but it is also increasingly challenged by a number of contemporary artists. This book deals with the question of relevance and meaning of the signifier in various fields of contemporary cultural production in Africa: literature, film, sculpture, music, popular drama.
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- Hudson, Heidi
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A (Wo)man for all seasons : Amos Tutuola and the Gendering of Peace in Africa
- 2019
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This book explores the work of Nigerian author Amos Tutuola and how it can enhance our understanding of gender and peacebuilding in Africa. Critical feminist contributions on how a gender perspective can broaden inclusion in post-conflict processes, as well as change institutions and mindsets are surely innovative but have not succeeded in dislodging liberal peace as the means of dealing with conflict on the African continent. Such works also draw their critiques from largely rationalist, Western roots. Entering Tutuola’s world, where human and non-human characters change and interchange, allows scholars and practitioners to see peacebuilding as organic, reliant on multiple identities and interlocutors, and grounded in local knowledge. I contend that such an expanded lens that integrates exogenous and endogenous knowledge systems non-hierarchically is not only relevant to the peacebuilding context, but could also find application in other areas in need of decolonisation.
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- Theorell, Anita, et al.
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Fotoutställningen "Afrika/har/ordet"
- 2010
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Annan publikation (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- FOTOUTSTÄLLNINGFotoutställningen "Afrika/har/ordet" består av bilder på 20 av de afrikanska författare som besökte Bokmässan i Göteborg 2010. De skriver prosa, poesi, drama och barn- och ungdomslitteratur på många olika språk. Utställningen representerar dessa många aspekter och innehåller bilder på representanter för en ny generation afrikanska författare liksom deras etablerade kollegor. Den svensk-moçambikiske fotografen Sérgio Santimano har tagit bilderna och Anita Theorell har skrivit författarpresentationerna.Fotoutställningen finns tillgänglig för alla att ladda ner gratis men är skyddad av en Creative Commons licens. Det betyder att bilderna får användas i icke-kommersiellt syfte förutsatt att källa och fotografens namn uppges. Den erbjuder framförallt bibliotek ett ypperligt tillfälle att visa upp afrikansk litteratur för sina besökare. Till alla bilder finns en bibliografisk text.Författare:Chris Abani, NigeriaLubna al-Hussein, SudanSefi Atta, NigeriaGabeba Baderoon, SydafrikaYaba Badoe, GhanaTahar Ben Jelloun, MarockoMia Couto, MoçambiqueChristian Epanya, KamerunNuruddin Farah, SomaliaPetina Gappah, ZimbabweNadine Gordimer, SydafrikaHelon Habila, NigeriaKopano Matlwa, SydafrikaAlain Mabanckou, KongoEyoum N’gangue, KamerunOndjaki, AngolaLesego Rampolokeng, SydafrikaIrene Sabatini, ZimbabweVéronique Tadjo, ElfenbenskustenNgũgĩ wa Thiong’o, KenyaFILMERFörfattarnas framträdanden filmades och finns arkiverade här i DiVA. Sök på författarens namn för att finna dem.KATALOGI samband med mässan publicerade Nordiska Afrikainstitutet "Afrika/har/ordet". Boken innehåller bilder och bibliografiska texter om alla afrikanska författare som besökte mässan. Nordiska Afrikainstitutets direktör Carin Norberg har skrivit en introduktion, Anita Theorell de bibliografiska texterna och Henning Mankell och Véronique Tadjo har skrivit sina personliga reflektioner. Boken kan beställas gratis från orders@nai.uu.se
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- Theorell, Anita, et al.
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The photo exhibition "Africa/has/the/floor"
- 2010
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Annan publikation (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- A photo exhibitionThe photo exhibition "Africa/has/the/floor" includes photographs of 20 of the African writers who visited the Göteborg Book Fair 2010. They write prose, poetry, drama and literature for children and the youth. They write in many different languages. These many facets of African literature are represented in this exhibition, which includes photographs representing the new generation of African writers as well as their established peers. The Swedish-Mozambican photographer Sérgio Santimano has taken the photographs and Anita Theorell has written the writers’ presentations.The photo exhibition is available to download for anybody, free of charge and is protected by a Creative Commons license. The photographs may be used for non-commercial purposes, provided that you state the source and the name of the photographer. It offers an excellent opportunity for, in particular, libraries who wish to showcase African literature to their visitors. All photographs are accompanied with a bibliographical note.Writers:Chris Abani, NigeriaLubna al-Hussein, SudanSefi Atta, NigeriaGabeba Baderoon, South AfricaYaba Badoe, GhanaTahar Ben Jelloun, MoroccoMia Couto, MozambiqueChristian Epanya, CameroonNuruddin Farah, SomaliaPetina Gappah, ZimbabweNadine Gordimer, South AfricaHelon Habila, NigeriaAlain Mabanckou, CongoKopano Matlwa, South AfricaEyoum N’gangue, CameroonOndjaki, AngolaLesego Rampolokeng, South AfricaIrene Sabatini, ZimbabweVéronique Tadjo, Côte d’IvoireNgũgĩ wa Thiong’o, KenyaHow to use the photographs to create your own exhibitionThe photo exhibition consists of 24 pictures in pdf format. Apart from the 20 writers represented, the exhibition includes an introduction and three pictures with quotes from the writers’ books. Depending on the size of the exhibition area, it is possible to download the exhibition in full or selected parts of it. Irrespective of the size of the exhibition area, it is advisable that the introduction is included.Sequence of the picturesThe pictures can be hung in any order. The Nordic Africa Institute has followed this order: Introduction, Petina Gappah, Mia Couto, Nadine Gordimer, Eyoum N’gangue, Gabeba Baderoon, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Sefi Atta, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Helon Habila, Lubna al-Hussein, Ondjaki, Yaba Badoe, Christian Epanya, Kopano Matlwa, Nuruddin Farah, Lesego Rampolokeng, Véronique Tadjo, Irene Sabatini and Chris Abani.
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