Bernth Lindfors
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 176139 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Bernth Lindfors |
| NOMBRES | Bernth |
| APELLIDO | Lindfors |
| FIRMA | LINDFORS B |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Texas at Austin |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5518-3543 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 69 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 43 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 68 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1965 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Some Early Soyinka Letters
Among the papers of James Simmons held at the Rose Library of Emory University are nine letters he received from Wole Soyinka as well as one from Soyinka’s British partner, Barbara Dixon, both of whom had been his classmates at Leeds University in the mid-1950s. The letters cover Soyinka’s activities from July 29, 1958, a year after he had graduated from Leeds, until January 13, 1960, just after he returned to Nigeria. During this period Soyinka …
Eustace Palmer’s early scholarly contributions
This survey of Eustace Palmer's two major contributions to the study of African fiction concentrates on the soundness of his methods and the sensitivity of his insights
Bernth Lindfors
Editing the first twenty years of Research in African Literatures
The one-page editorial in the inaugural issue of Research in African Literatures that appeared in the spring of 1970 stated the raison d’etre of this new venture in African journal publishing:Journ
Ngugi
“Mislike Me Not for My Complexion…”
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Dennis Brutus in the dock
An account of the testimony of Dennis Brutus in court in South Africa
Tributes to Chinua Achebe, 1930-2013
Rights and Wrongs of Black Performers in Nineteenth-Century Britain
The Larson Collection at the Harry Ransom Center
Dennis Brutus
Ira Aldridge in Germany
In Memory of Ogali A. Ogali (October 27, 1935-July 9, 2006)
"In Memory of Ogali A. Ogali (October 27, 1935-July 9, 2006)." Journal of the African Literature Association, 2(1), pp. 212–235
Ezenwa–Ohaeto (1958–2005)
Ethnological Show Business
In nineteenth-century Britain people of other races and cultures were put on display for commercial gain. These performing ‘noble savages’ are analysed in terms of cultural commentary of the time. Lindfors also traces the way in which the performers were viewed as a representation of ‘otherness’ and evidence of British cultural superiority. These displays coincided with the abolition of slavery and thus performed racism and imperialism in a socia…
Africans on Stage
How ethnological show business shaped European and American perceptions of Africa and Africans.
African literature criticism and the post‐colonial curriculum
Who are the most important black authors in anglophone Africa and which are their most significant writings? One way of answering such questions is to examine which authors literary critics choose to write about and which texts teachers of literature choose to teach. Since those who are professionally engaged in interpreting African literatures discriminate when selecting what to comment on, a canon (or canons) can be said to exist. This paper se…
Africans on Stage
Mislike Me Not for My Complexion
Africans on Stage
Black African Literature in English, 1987-1991
Ira Aldridge, “The African Roscius”
This paper examines the career of Ira Aldridge, the first important black Shakespearean actor in Europe. In Britain Aldridge scored his greatest successes in the provinces as well as in Ireland, Scotland and Wales; for much of his career he was kept off the London stage. Yet when he started performing on the European continent, he was lionized and won more awards, decorations, medals and honours than any other nineteenth-century actor. The achiev…
Armah Ayi Kwei. Osiris Rising
ARMAH Ayi Kwei. Osiris Rising: A Novel of Africa Past. Present and Future. Popenguine, Senegal: Per Ankh, 1995. $21 ($15 + $6 air mail). Un article de la revue Études littéraires africaines (Numéro 1, 1996, p. 1-93) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Response to Dunton on Bate Besong
Ola Rotimi and Wole Soyinka at Unife
Africa and the Nobel Prize
By BERNTH LINDFORS When Swedish Academy awarded 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature to Wole Soyinka, it did far more than honor one more literary giant who had produced outstanding work an ideal tendency.1 It also signaled to world at large that prize itself was no longer entirely an intramural Aryan affair, monopolized by authors from Europe and European diaspora. True, there had been earlier winners from India and Japan, but these exceptions had com…
Beating the White Man at his Own Game
Bernth Lindfors, Beating the White Man at his Own Game: Nigerian Reactions to the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, Black American Literature Forum, Vol. 22, No. 3, Wole Soyinka Issue, Part 1 (Autumn, 1988), pp. 475-488
Amos Tutuola's Search for a Publisher
Amos Tutuola
Lindfors Bernth. Amos Tutuola: Debts and Assets. In: Cahiers d'études africaines, vol. 10, n°38, 1970. pp. 306-334
Dennis Brutus in the dock
An account of the testimony of Dennis Brutus in court in South Africa
Mislike Me Not for My Complexion
Black African Literature in English, 1987-1991
Nothing Extenuate, Nor Set Down Aught in Malice
The remarkable life of Ira Aldridge has been faithfully reconstructed in Herbert Marshall and Mildred Stock's fine biography Ira Aldridge: the Negro (1958). Using materials gathered from libraries and archives in Western and Eastern Europe and the United States, Marshall and Stock were able to put together a detailed documentary record of Aldridge's forty-two years on the stage, correcting of the erroneous accounts that had been published during …
White on Black
Black African Literature in English-A Guide to Information Sources
Popular Literature for an African Elite
The emergence of a literature in English in Nigeria is usually described as a rapid post-war phenomenon, an unexpected flowering of creative energy which took scarcely more than two decades to produce rich, ripe fruit. According to most published reports, this literature was born suddenly in 1952 out of the pregnant thumb of Amos Tutuola; was nursed through a wobbly infancy by Cyprian Ekwensi, T. M. Aluko, and Onuora Nzekwu; was guided through a …
Heroes and Hero‐Worship in Nigerian Chapbooks
Bernth Lindfors
Ngugi
African literature criticism and the post‐colonial curriculum
Who are the most important black authors in anglophone Africa and which are their most significant writings? One way of answering such questions is to examine which authors literary critics choose to write about and which texts teachers of literature choose to teach. Since those who are professionally engaged in interpreting African literatures discriminate when selecting what to comment on, a canon (or canons) can be said to exist. This paper se…
Africans on Stage
Armah Ayi Kwei. Osiris Rising
ARMAH Ayi Kwei. Osiris Rising: A Novel of Africa Past. Present and Future. Popenguine, Senegal: Per Ankh, 1995. $21 ($15 + $6 air mail). Un article de la revue Études littéraires africaines (Numéro 1, 1996, p. 1-93) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
The teaching of African literature in anglophone African universities
(1990). The teaching of African literature in anglophone African universities: An instructive canon. Wasafiri: Vol. 5, No. 11, pp. 13-16
Black African Literature in English, 1982-1986
The United African Twins on Tour
Early Nigerian Literature
East African Popular Literature in English
Ogunde on Ogunde
Wole Soyinka, When Are You Coming Home
Additions and Corrections to Janheinz Jahn's Bibliography of Neo-African Literature (1965)
Janheinz Jahn's Bibliography is the most useful reference work that bibliographers of African literature have yet produced. One may wish to quarrel with Jahn about his definition of "neo-African literature" or about some of the material he has chosen to include (e.g., unpublished manuscripts, sermons, travel books, political works, monographs) as well as some he has chosen to exclude (e.g., literary works by white African writers, collections of …
Weep Not, Child
Post-War Literature in English by African Writers from South Africa
The Moon Cannot Fight
Heroes and Hero‐Worship in Nigerian Chapbooks
Nigerian Chapbook Heroines
Achebe's African Parable
A Fraudulent "Elfin Knight" from West Virginia
American University and Research Library Holdings in African Literature
American scholars doing research in African literature sometimes have trouble locating the books they need. It is easy enough to get one's hands on African literary works published in England or America, but how does one get hold of material published in Africa -- e.g., Onitsha market chapbooks, early Lovedale or Morija press publications, or works in vernacular languages published by literature bureaus and small mission presses? Fortunately, for…
Additions and Corrections to Janheinz Jahn's Bibliography of Neo-African Literature (1965)
Janheinz Jahn's Bibliography is the most useful reference work that bibliographers of African literature have yet produced. One may wish to quarrel with Jahn about his definition of "neo-African literature" or about some of the material he has chosen to include (e.g., unpublished manuscripts, sermons, travel books, political works, monographs) as well as some he has chosen to exclude (e.g., literary works by white African writers, collections of …
A Preliminary Checklist of English Short Fiction by Non-Europeans in South Africa, 1940-1964
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The Militant Black Writer in Africa and the United States
Amos Tutuola and D. O. Fagunwa
Amos Tutuola
Lindfors Bernth. Amos Tutuola: Debts and Assets. In: Cahiers d'études africaines, vol. 10, n°38, 1970. pp. 306-334
Anthropology and the Arts
Popular Literature for an African Elite
The emergence of a literature in English in Nigeria is usually described as a rapid post-war phenomenon, an unexpected flowering of creative energy which took scarcely more than two decades to produce rich, ripe fruit. According to most published reports, this literature was born suddenly in 1952 out of the pregnant thumb of Amos Tutuola; was nursed through a wobbly infancy by Cyprian Ekwensi, T. M. Aluko, and Onuora Nzekwu; was guided through a …
African Literature
Patrick Holland, African Literature: From Nigeria to South Africa, Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines, Vol. 9, No. 3, Special Issue: Black African Litterature (1975), pp. 567-568
Ogunde on Ogunde
Wole Soyinka, When Are You Coming Home
Folklore in Nigerian Literature
Critical Perspectives on Nigerian Literatures
Forms of Folklore in Africa
Forms of Folklore in Africa. Narrative Poetic, Gnomic, Dramatic
East African Popular Literature in English
Research in African Literatures. Special Issue on West African Popular Culture
Forms of Folklore in Africa
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