Mpalive‐hangson Msiska
Biographic Data
| ID | 3592111 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mpalive‐hangson Msiska |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mpalive‐hangson |
| FAMILY NAME | Msiska |
| SIGNATURE | MSISKA M H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Birkbeck, University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Writing and Africa
Situating the BRICS Phenomenon within the Histories and Cultures of Southern Africa
Kujoni
This article recovers the literary and political value of Legson Kayira’s novel Jingala (1969), dismissed by earlier critics as lightweight. I argue instead for the seriousness of its engagement with a significant aspect of Malawian life, namely the country’s historical reliance on the export of migrant labour to its mineral-rich neighbours, especially South Africa. Between 1900 and 1988, the country was the second-largest supplier of contracted …
Imagined nations and imaginary Nigeria
This article argues that Chinua Achebe's memoir, There was a country: a personal history of Biafra (2012) articulates a hankering after a home, a habitable country in the context of colonially derived contradictions embedded in the institutional formation of Nigeria, the failure of the nationalist and postcolonial leadership to resolve such contradictions as well as the legacy of ethnicity. It demonstrates how the memoir expresses the writer's de…
Things Fall Apart
Keywords: Chinua Achebeliterary criticismliterary representationpostcolonial theoryplurisignifying practiceThings Fall Apart
Detecting globalisation, modernity and gender subjectivity in David Maillu'sBenni Kamba 009 in Operation DXT
Through a study of his detective novel, Benni Kamba 009 in Operation DX, and the debates surrounding the emergence of East African Popular literature in English, this paper reflects on the contribution of the Kenyan writer, David Maillu Maillu, David. 1986. Benni Kamba 009 in Operation DXT, Nairobi: Heinemann. [Google Scholar], to the production of a Popular discourse of Post-colonial African modernity. It argues that Maillu Maillu, David. 1980. …
Sam Selvon's The Lonely Londoners and the structure of Black metropolitan life
The paper argues that Sam Selvon's novel The Lonely Londoners (1956), whilst offering a study of the metropolitan experience of post-war African and Caribbean immigrants to London, gives profound insights into the fundamental structure of Black metropolitan subjectivity generally. The theoretical work of Georg Simmel, Walter Benjamin, Stuart Hall and, Paul Gilroy, among others, is used to illuminate particular aspects of the location of the Black…
The politics of identity and the identity of politics
The paper argues that Wole Soyinka's Camwood on the Leaves and The Strong Breed offer us a notion of Self as Agency that is a critique of African tradition, modernity and, above all, the Post-Modernist revalorization of the subject. It is argued that Soyinka proffers a post Post-Structuralism Humanist interrogation as well as reclamation of subjectivity in which Selfhood is conceived of as a site of responsibility and transformation. The study ex…
Writing and Africa
Introduction: writing and Africa, Mpalive-Hangson Msiska. Part 1 Writing and history - a survey: north African writing, Anissa Talahite west African writing, Patrick Williams eastern and central African writing, Mpalive-Hangson Msiska. Part 2 Issues and problems: what is African literature? ethnography and criticism, Kadiatu Kanneh fiction as a historicizing form in modern South Africa, Michael Green empires of the imagination - Rider Haggard, po…
African Literature Today
Cultural Dislocation and Gender Ideology in Kole Omotoso's The Edifice
Imagined nations and imaginary Nigeria
This article argues that Chinua Achebe's memoir, There was a country: a personal history of Biafra (2012) articulates a hankering after a home, a habitable country in the context of colonially derived contradictions embedded in the institutional formation of Nigeria, the failure of the nationalist and postcolonial leadership to resolve such contradictions as well as the legacy of ethnicity. It demonstrates how the memoir expresses the writer's de…
Things Fall Apart
Keywords: Chinua Achebeliterary criticismliterary representationpostcolonial theoryplurisignifying practiceThings Fall Apart
Detecting globalisation, modernity and gender subjectivity in David Maillu'sBenni Kamba 009 in Operation DXT
Through a study of his detective novel, Benni Kamba 009 in Operation DX, and the debates surrounding the emergence of East African Popular literature in English, this paper reflects on the contribution of the Kenyan writer, David Maillu Maillu, David. 1986. Benni Kamba 009 in Operation DXT, Nairobi: Heinemann. [Google Scholar], to the production of a Popular discourse of Post-colonial African modernity. It argues that Maillu Maillu, David. 1980. …
Sam Selvon's The Lonely Londoners and the structure of Black metropolitan life
The paper argues that Sam Selvon's novel The Lonely Londoners (1956), whilst offering a study of the metropolitan experience of post-war African and Caribbean immigrants to London, gives profound insights into the fundamental structure of Black metropolitan subjectivity generally. The theoretical work of Georg Simmel, Walter Benjamin, Stuart Hall and, Paul Gilroy, among others, is used to illuminate particular aspects of the location of the Black…
Cultural Dislocation and Gender Ideology in Kole Omotoso's The Edifice
African Literature Today
Writing and Africa
Introduction: writing and Africa, Mpalive-Hangson Msiska. Part 1 Writing and history - a survey: north African writing, Anissa Talahite west African writing, Patrick Williams eastern and central African writing, Mpalive-Hangson Msiska. Part 2 Issues and problems: what is African literature? ethnography and criticism, Kadiatu Kanneh fiction as a historicizing form in modern South Africa, Michael Green empires of the imagination - Rider Haggard, po…
The politics of identity and the identity of politics
The paper argues that Wole Soyinka's Camwood on the Leaves and The Strong Breed offer us a notion of Self as Agency that is a critique of African tradition, modernity and, above all, the Post-Modernist revalorization of the subject. It is argued that Soyinka proffers a post Post-Structuralism Humanist interrogation as well as reclamation of subjectivity in which Selfhood is conceived of as a site of responsibility and transformation. The study ex…
Sam Selvon's The Lonely Londoners and the structure of Black metropolitan life
The paper argues that Sam Selvon's novel The Lonely Londoners (1956), whilst offering a study of the metropolitan experience of post-war African and Caribbean immigrants to London, gives profound insights into the fundamental structure of Black metropolitan subjectivity generally. The theoretical work of Georg Simmel, Walter Benjamin, Stuart Hall and, Paul Gilroy, among others, is used to illuminate particular aspects of the location of the Black…
Things Fall Apart
Keywords: Chinua Achebeliterary criticismliterary representationpostcolonial theoryplurisignifying practiceThings Fall Apart
Detecting globalisation, modernity and gender subjectivity in David Maillu'sBenni Kamba 009 in Operation DXT
Through a study of his detective novel, Benni Kamba 009 in Operation DX, and the debates surrounding the emergence of East African Popular literature in English, this paper reflects on the contribution of the Kenyan writer, David Maillu Maillu, David. 1986. Benni Kamba 009 in Operation DXT, Nairobi: Heinemann. [Google Scholar], to the production of a Popular discourse of Post-colonial African modernity. It argues that Maillu Maillu, David. 1980. …
Imagined nations and imaginary Nigeria
This article argues that Chinua Achebe's memoir, There was a country: a personal history of Biafra (2012) articulates a hankering after a home, a habitable country in the context of colonially derived contradictions embedded in the institutional formation of Nigeria, the failure of the nationalist and postcolonial leadership to resolve such contradictions as well as the legacy of ethnicity. It demonstrates how the memoir expresses the writer's de…
Writing and Africa
Situating the BRICS Phenomenon within the Histories and Cultures of Southern Africa
Kujoni
This article recovers the literary and political value of Legson Kayira’s novel Jingala (1969), dismissed by earlier critics as lightweight. I argue instead for the seriousness of its engagement with a significant aspect of Malawian life, namely the country’s historical reliance on the export of migrant labour to its mineral-rich neighbours, especially South Africa. Between 1900 and 1988, the country was the second-largest supplier of contracted …
Political science (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · History (4 works)