Neil Ten Kortenaar
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 260296 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Neil Ten Kortenaar |
| NOMBRES | Neil Ten |
| APELLIDO | Kortenaar |
| FIRMA | TEN KORTENAAR N |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1154-7103 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2004 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
African Literature in Transition
This book offers a compelling new approach to African literatures as formed by and itself a form of collective memory. It explores the historical spaces and maps that African literature brings to the surface and re-imagines in novel ways. The stories that matter about what happened in the past together constitute a collective memory that African writers and readers draw upon to locate themselves within the world. The book examines the mental maps…
The Colonial Archive
If, as Roberto González Echevarría argues, all fiction is written in relation to the archive, African literature is written with an eye to the colonial archive. That archive reflected an imperial will to knowledge and was an information system collected in an attempt to define and so control Africans. Writers such as Achebe, Tutuola, La Guma, and Coetzee have imagined it as a prison, as hell, or as a great maw. The meaning of the colonial archive…
African Literature in Transition
“If It No Go So, It Go Near So”
Marlon James's A Brief History of Seven Killings fictionalizes a historical incident, the shooting of Bob Marley in Kingston in 1976, and the larger political, economic, and cultural forces that led to it and emerged from it. Real people can enter fiction and retain their names if they have already entered history or journalism—if, in other words, they are already part of a shared imagination. But there is a difference between the local Jamaican …
Introduction to Special Issue on Literature Pedagogy Confronting Colonialism
Postcolonial literary scholars often write about challenging traditional canons and Enlightenment ideas, but that challenge too often remains at the level of content and of ideas. We also need practical change to the university classroom, our curriculum, our syllabi, our pedagogy. And we need to be in dialogue with our colleagues teaching British or American or European literature who also want to decolonize their classrooms. There need to be for…
The Half Lives of African Fictive States
On or about February 1966, African literature changed. The coups that overthrew the First Republic in Nigeria, Kwame Nkrumah in Ghana, and the Kabaka of Buganda divide the history of African literature in two: the period just before and after most of Africa became independent, and the period from 1966 to at least 2006, the year of publication of Ngg's Wizard of the Crow. 1 Literature registered the impact of the coups as a disruption in the setti…
Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine
Bharati Mukherjee’s novel Jasmine works well in the multicultural North American classroom because it can inspire playful, mutually contradictory, inherently unstable readings. The novel must not be thought of as inviting one particular reading but as permitting student readers to find the potential for play in categories of identity that implicate them deeply
The power to name
Law and Literature in the Postcolony
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Rule, the Law, and the Rule of Law in Achebe’s Novels of Colonization
Achebe’s two novels of colonization, Things Fall Apart and Arrow of God , one written just before and one just after independence, both begin with the threat of war between village groups. In the first, war is averted by the groups themselves, negotiating compensation on the basis of reciprocity. In the second, war is not avoided and leads directly to intervention by the British, who assert a monopoly on violence and justify it on the basis of th…
The Changing Face of African Literature / Les nouveaux visages de la littérature africaine
The Changing Face of African Literature combines both the large picture – a synopsis of current trends in African literature – and the small: studies of individual texts and of themes across several texts. The large and the small are linked by recurring themes, such as gender and sexuality, the nation-state and its collapse, AIDS, war, and suffering. The volume is comparative, bringing together literature in at least five languages and from at le…
Things Fall Apartin History
Keywords: Chinua Achebegenderhistorynation-statepatriarchysacrificeThings Fall Apart Acknowledgement Research for this essay was made possible by a standard research grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Introduction
Introduction:Yvonne Vera’s Fictions and the Voice of the Possible Liz Gunner and Neil Ten Kortenaar This collection of papers on the work of the Zimbabwean novelist Yvonne Vera, who died in Canada in April 2005, comes, with the exception of one paper, from the colloquium on her writing held at the Centre for African Literary Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in September of the same year.1 We wished to hold an event that in some way hono…
Oedipus, Ogbanje, and the Sons of Independence
The protagonists of many African novels at the time of independence are young men eager to inherit the commandement, or power, of the colonizers by investing it in the state of which they would be the citizens. They want the kind of revolution that in Europe replaced monarchy with bourgeois republics. However, in Europe revolution involved sons replacing and inheriting from fathers. Inheritance is less straightforward in the colony, where fathers…
Parents, children and Fools
Njabulo Ndebele has made an important distinction between spectacle and the ordinary. Meaning can easily be read off spectacle, which, like a wrestling match, involves a conflict between stock figures. The ordinary resists being read. The distinction between spectacle and the ordinary corresponds in Ndebele's creative imagination to a distinction between childhood and adulthood. In the collection of short stories, Fools, childhood is a realm of a…
Chinua Achebe and the Question of Modern African Tragedy
Becoming African and the Death of Ikemefuna
Oedipus, Ogbanje, and the Sons of Independence
The protagonists of many African novels at the time of independence are young men eager to inherit the commandement, or power, of the colonizers by investing it in the state of which they would be the citizens. They want the kind of revolution that in Europe replaced monarchy with bourgeois republics. However, in Europe revolution involved sons replacing and inheriting from fathers. Inheritance is less straightforward in the colony, where fathers…
Chinua Achebe and the Question of Modern African Tragedy
Becoming African and the Death of Ikemefuna
The Half Lives of African Fictive States
On or about February 1966, African literature changed. The coups that overthrew the First Republic in Nigeria, Kwame Nkrumah in Ghana, and the Kabaka of Buganda divide the history of African literature in two: the period just before and after most of Africa became independent, and the period from 1966 to at least 2006, the year of publication of Ngg's Wizard of the Crow. 1 Literature registered the impact of the coups as a disruption in the setti…
The Changing Face of African Literature / Les nouveaux visages de la littérature africaine
The Changing Face of African Literature combines both the large picture – a synopsis of current trends in African literature – and the small: studies of individual texts and of themes across several texts. The large and the small are linked by recurring themes, such as gender and sexuality, the nation-state and its collapse, AIDS, war, and suffering. The volume is comparative, bringing together literature in at least five languages and from at le…
Introduction
Introduction:Yvonne Vera’s Fictions and the Voice of the Possible Liz Gunner and Neil Ten Kortenaar This collection of papers on the work of the Zimbabwean novelist Yvonne Vera, who died in Canada in April 2005, comes, with the exception of one paper, from the colloquium on her writing held at the Centre for African Literary Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in September of the same year.1 We wished to hold an event that in some way hono…
Becoming African and the Death of Ikemefuna
Parents, children and Fools
Njabulo Ndebele has made an important distinction between spectacle and the ordinary. Meaning can easily be read off spectacle, which, like a wrestling match, involves a conflict between stock figures. The ordinary resists being read. The distinction between spectacle and the ordinary corresponds in Ndebele's creative imagination to a distinction between childhood and adulthood. In the collection of short stories, Fools, childhood is a realm of a…
Chinua Achebe and the Question of Modern African Tragedy
Introduction
Introduction:Yvonne Vera’s Fictions and the Voice of the Possible Liz Gunner and Neil Ten Kortenaar This collection of papers on the work of the Zimbabwean novelist Yvonne Vera, who died in Canada in April 2005, comes, with the exception of one paper, from the colloquium on her writing held at the Centre for African Literary Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in September of the same year.1 We wished to hold an event that in some way hono…
Oedipus, Ogbanje, and the Sons of Independence
The protagonists of many African novels at the time of independence are young men eager to inherit the commandement, or power, of the colonizers by investing it in the state of which they would be the citizens. They want the kind of revolution that in Europe replaced monarchy with bourgeois republics. However, in Europe revolution involved sons replacing and inheriting from fathers. Inheritance is less straightforward in the colony, where fathers…
The Changing Face of African Literature / Les nouveaux visages de la littérature africaine
The Changing Face of African Literature combines both the large picture – a synopsis of current trends in African literature – and the small: studies of individual texts and of themes across several texts. The large and the small are linked by recurring themes, such as gender and sexuality, the nation-state and its collapse, AIDS, war, and suffering. The volume is comparative, bringing together literature in at least five languages and from at le…
Things Fall Apartin History
Keywords: Chinua Achebegenderhistorynation-statepatriarchysacrificeThings Fall Apart Acknowledgement Research for this essay was made possible by a standard research grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Law and Literature in the Postcolony
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Rule, the Law, and the Rule of Law in Achebe’s Novels of Colonization
Achebe’s two novels of colonization, Things Fall Apart and Arrow of God , one written just before and one just after independence, both begin with the threat of war between village groups. In the first, war is averted by the groups themselves, negotiating compensation on the basis of reciprocity. In the second, war is not avoided and leads directly to intervention by the British, who assert a monopoly on violence and justify it on the basis of th…
The power to name
Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine
Bharati Mukherjee’s novel Jasmine works well in the multicultural North American classroom because it can inspire playful, mutually contradictory, inherently unstable readings. The novel must not be thought of as inviting one particular reading but as permitting student readers to find the potential for play in categories of identity that implicate them deeply
The Half Lives of African Fictive States
On or about February 1966, African literature changed. The coups that overthrew the First Republic in Nigeria, Kwame Nkrumah in Ghana, and the Kabaka of Buganda divide the history of African literature in two: the period just before and after most of Africa became independent, and the period from 1966 to at least 2006, the year of publication of Ngg's Wizard of the Crow. 1 Literature registered the impact of the coups as a disruption in the setti…
Introduction to Special Issue on Literature Pedagogy Confronting Colonialism
Postcolonial literary scholars often write about challenging traditional canons and Enlightenment ideas, but that challenge too often remains at the level of content and of ideas. We also need practical change to the university classroom, our curriculum, our syllabi, our pedagogy. And we need to be in dialogue with our colleagues teaching British or American or European literature who also want to decolonize their classrooms. There need to be for…
“If It No Go So, It Go Near So”
Marlon James's A Brief History of Seven Killings fictionalizes a historical incident, the shooting of Bob Marley in Kingston in 1976, and the larger political, economic, and cultural forces that led to it and emerged from it. Real people can enter fiction and retain their names if they have already entered history or journalism—if, in other words, they are already part of a shared imagination. But there is a difference between the local Jamaican …
African Literature in Transition
This book offers a compelling new approach to African literatures as formed by and itself a form of collective memory. It explores the historical spaces and maps that African literature brings to the surface and re-imagines in novel ways. The stories that matter about what happened in the past together constitute a collective memory that African writers and readers draw upon to locate themselves within the world. The book examines the mental maps…
The Colonial Archive
If, as Roberto González Echevarría argues, all fiction is written in relation to the archive, African literature is written with an eye to the colonial archive. That archive reflected an imperial will to knowledge and was an information system collected in an attempt to define and so control Africans. Writers such as Achebe, Tutuola, La Guma, and Coetzee have imagined it as a prison, as hell, or as a great maw. The meaning of the colonial archive…
African Literature in Transition
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