African Literature and the Future

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Title page
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Contents
About the Contributors
Introduction. Present Tension in Future Tenses: Re-writing Africa into the Twenty-firstCentury
1. Orality, Modernity and African Development: Myth as Dialogue of Civilisations
	Introduction
	Myth–Orality Nexus and the ‘Other’ Modernity
	Myth, Modernity and the Development Question in Africa
	Africa, Myth and the Dialogue of Civilisations Narrative
	Re-Reading Myth as Text
	Conclusion
	References
2. Requiem for Absolutism: Soyinka andthe Re-visioning of Governance in Twenty-first Century Africa
	Introduction
	Soyinka and the Absolute State
	The Beatification of Area Boy
	King Baabu
	Concluding Remarks
	Notes
	References
3. A Critical Discourse Evaluation of Decolonisation and Democratisation: Issues in Africa as Exemplified inSoyinka’s Non-fictional Texts
	Introduction
	Theory and Methods of Post-colonialism
	The Non-fictional Writings of Soyinka
	Lexical Indexicalisation of Political Actors
	Conclusion
	References
4. Power, Artistic Agency and Poetic Discourse: Poetry as Cultural Critique in Africa
	Introduction
	Literary Trajectory
	Nation, Power and Dissidence
	Exile and Dispersal: Post-Nation Anxiety
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
5. African Literature and the Anxiety of Being in the Twenty-first Century
	Introduction
	Conceptualising African Literature
	African Literature in the Twenty-first Century
	Towards the Future
	Conclusion
	References
6. A Critical Analysis of Prophetic Myths in the Selected Fiction of Ben Okri
	Introduction
	Journey as Archetypal Motif
	In Search of the Future: Mythical Paradigms as Prophecy in In Arcadia
	Unorthodox Archetypes as Predictive Myth
	Unorthodox Archetypal Statements
	Unorthodox Archetypal Sights
	Conclusion
	References
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