Joseph Mclaren
Biographic Data
| ID | 3612436 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joseph Mclaren |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joseph |
| FAMILY NAME | Mclaren |
| SIGNATURE | MCLAREN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hofstra University |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-6222-6037 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Zora Neale Hurston: Retrieving Folk Memory in Mules and Men
Social justice in the courtroom: Youth culture and multiple narrative voices in Eustace Palmer’s A Hanging Is Announced
African writers who have been concerned with governmental authority have sought to uncover the sources of injustice in the larger societal context, to redefine criminality beyond the focus on individual culpability. Using multiple narrative voices and the courtroom as literary space, Eustace Palmer’s A Hanging Is Announced exemplifies the search for social justice through representations of youth culture. Multiple narrative voices can be understo…
James Matthews: From Cry Rage to the New South African Nation
Legendary South African poet, fiction writer, and activist, James Matthews exemplifies the path from “dissident” writing to contemporary engagement with community issues in Cape Town. Author of numerous works of poetry, including Cry Rage (1972), Black Voices Shout (1974), Flames and Flowers (2000), Poems from a Prison Cell (2002), and Age Is a Beautiful Phase (2008), Matthews engaged political concerns in South Africa, much of which can be under…
Metaphor and the Slave Trade in West African Literature
Book Review| March 01 2016 Metaphor and the Slave Trade in West African Literature Metaphor and the Slave Trade in West African Literature, by Laura T. Murphy. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2012; pp. 243, $27.96 paper. Joseph McLaren Joseph McLaren Hofstra University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of West African History (2016) 2 (1): 195–198. https://doi.org/10.14321/jwestafrihist.2.1.0195 Cite Icon Cite Shar…
Tributes to Nelson Mandela (1918-2013)
African Diaspora Vernacular Traditions and the Dilemma of Identity
The literature of Africa and the African Diaspora often employs vernacular elements derived from the Africanization of European languages. These linguistic variations, commonly considered languages in their own right, are identified as creole, patois, pidgin, and, in the United States, Ebonics or Black English. In the anglophone context, Africanized English has been a highly regarded literary element found in the works of celebrated creative writ…
From the National to the Global: Satirical Magic Realism in Ngugi's Wizard of the Crow
Ngugi wa Thiongb s novel Wizard of the Crow demonstrates his use of satirical magic realism, where character representations stretch the limits of conventional realism. Ngugi mocks national leadership in Africa and elsewhere through manipulations of the realistic mode, which has also been quite effective in representing political issues in Africa. The novel, set in the fictitious state of Aburiria, satirizes its Ruler and his attempts to dominate…
The Heart of Redness: A Novel (review)
Reviewed by: The Heart of Redness: A Novel Joseph McLaren Mda, Zakes . 2002. The Heart of Redness: A Novel. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 277 pp. $24.00 (cloth). Zakes Mda, playwright, poet, educator, and author of the award-winning novel Ways of Dying (1995), is an important member of the postapartheid generation of writers. The Heart of Redness, in which redness indicates traditional South Africa, is a multigenerational saga. Its title e…
Broken Lives and Other Stories (review)
Reviewed by: Broken Lives and Other Stories Joseph McLaren Kalu, Anthonia C. 2003. Broken Lives and Other Stories. Athens: Ohio University Press. 183 pp. $19.95 (paper). As indicated in the foreword, by noted critic Emmanuel Obiechina, the Nigerian Civil War, 1967–1970, has been a subject for numerous Nigerian literary works. The Eastern Region, which named itself Biafra, broke away from the federal republic but could not sustain its independence…
African Visions: Literary Images, Political Change, and Social Struggle in Contemporary Africa
The complexity of society entering the 21st century necessitates an interdisciplinary examination of Africa's political, social, and cultural developments and challenges. Focusing on Social Movements and Literature, Social Change and Culture, the book brings together a wide range of essays by committed scholars, writers, and activists concerned with progressive approaches to Africa's dilemmas. Beginning with an overview by anthropologist Cheryl M…
Ngugi Wa Thiong'O'S Moving the Centre and its Relevance to Afrocentricity
Ngugi wa Thiong'o, the well-known Kenyan novelist, dramatist, and essayist, has examined the relationship between literary craft and the sociopolitical issues facing contemporary Africa in its relationship to the West. Moving the Centre: Strugglefor Cultural Freedoms (1993) is composed of selections drawn from lectures, speeches, and publications from 1980 to 1992. collection is divided into four sections, the first three addressing cultural dise…
Black African Literature in English, 1987-1991
White on Black: Contemporary Literature about Africa
Teachers, Preachers, Non-Believers: A Social History of Zimbabwean Literature
From the National to the Global: Satirical Magic Realism in Ngugi's Wizard of the Crow
Ngugi wa Thiongb s novel Wizard of the Crow demonstrates his use of satirical magic realism, where character representations stretch the limits of conventional realism. Ngugi mocks national leadership in Africa and elsewhere through manipulations of the realistic mode, which has also been quite effective in representing political issues in Africa. The novel, set in the fictitious state of Aburiria, satirizes its Ruler and his attempts to dominate…
African Visions: Literary Images, Political Change, and Social Struggle in Contemporary Africa
The complexity of society entering the 21st century necessitates an interdisciplinary examination of Africa's political, social, and cultural developments and challenges. Focusing on Social Movements and Literature, Social Change and Culture, the book brings together a wide range of essays by committed scholars, writers, and activists concerned with progressive approaches to Africa's dilemmas. Beginning with an overview by anthropologist Cheryl M…
Black African Literature in English, 1987-1991
African Diaspora Vernacular Traditions and the Dilemma of Identity
The literature of Africa and the African Diaspora often employs vernacular elements derived from the Africanization of European languages. These linguistic variations, commonly considered languages in their own right, are identified as creole, patois, pidgin, and, in the United States, Ebonics or Black English. In the anglophone context, Africanized English has been a highly regarded literary element found in the works of celebrated creative writ…
Teachers, Preachers, Non-Believers: A Social History of Zimbabwean Literature
White on Black: Contemporary Literature about Africa
Black African Literature in English, 1987-1991
Ngugi Wa Thiong'O'S Moving the Centre and its Relevance to Afrocentricity
Ngugi wa Thiong'o, the well-known Kenyan novelist, dramatist, and essayist, has examined the relationship between literary craft and the sociopolitical issues facing contemporary Africa in its relationship to the West. Moving the Centre: Strugglefor Cultural Freedoms (1993) is composed of selections drawn from lectures, speeches, and publications from 1980 to 1992. collection is divided into four sections, the first three addressing cultural dise…
African Visions: Literary Images, Political Change, and Social Struggle in Contemporary Africa
The complexity of society entering the 21st century necessitates an interdisciplinary examination of Africa's political, social, and cultural developments and challenges. Focusing on Social Movements and Literature, Social Change and Culture, the book brings together a wide range of essays by committed scholars, writers, and activists concerned with progressive approaches to Africa's dilemmas. Beginning with an overview by anthropologist Cheryl M…
The Heart of Redness: A Novel (review)
Reviewed by: The Heart of Redness: A Novel Joseph McLaren Mda, Zakes . 2002. The Heart of Redness: A Novel. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 277 pp. $24.00 (cloth). Zakes Mda, playwright, poet, educator, and author of the award-winning novel Ways of Dying (1995), is an important member of the postapartheid generation of writers. The Heart of Redness, in which redness indicates traditional South Africa, is a multigenerational saga. Its title e…
Broken Lives and Other Stories (review)
Reviewed by: Broken Lives and Other Stories Joseph McLaren Kalu, Anthonia C. 2003. Broken Lives and Other Stories. Athens: Ohio University Press. 183 pp. $19.95 (paper). As indicated in the foreword, by noted critic Emmanuel Obiechina, the Nigerian Civil War, 1967–1970, has been a subject for numerous Nigerian literary works. The Eastern Region, which named itself Biafra, broke away from the federal republic but could not sustain its independence…
From the National to the Global: Satirical Magic Realism in Ngugi's Wizard of the Crow
Ngugi wa Thiongb s novel Wizard of the Crow demonstrates his use of satirical magic realism, where character representations stretch the limits of conventional realism. Ngugi mocks national leadership in Africa and elsewhere through manipulations of the realistic mode, which has also been quite effective in representing political issues in Africa. The novel, set in the fictitious state of Aburiria, satirizes its Ruler and his attempts to dominate…
African Diaspora Vernacular Traditions and the Dilemma of Identity
The literature of Africa and the African Diaspora often employs vernacular elements derived from the Africanization of European languages. These linguistic variations, commonly considered languages in their own right, are identified as creole, patois, pidgin, and, in the United States, Ebonics or Black English. In the anglophone context, Africanized English has been a highly regarded literary element found in the works of celebrated creative writ…
Tributes to Nelson Mandela (1918-2013)
James Matthews: From Cry Rage to the New South African Nation
Legendary South African poet, fiction writer, and activist, James Matthews exemplifies the path from “dissident” writing to contemporary engagement with community issues in Cape Town. Author of numerous works of poetry, including Cry Rage (1972), Black Voices Shout (1974), Flames and Flowers (2000), Poems from a Prison Cell (2002), and Age Is a Beautiful Phase (2008), Matthews engaged political concerns in South Africa, much of which can be under…
Metaphor and the Slave Trade in West African Literature
Book Review| March 01 2016 Metaphor and the Slave Trade in West African Literature Metaphor and the Slave Trade in West African Literature, by Laura T. Murphy. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2012; pp. 243, $27.96 paper. Joseph McLaren Joseph McLaren Hofstra University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of West African History (2016) 2 (1): 195–198. https://doi.org/10.14321/jwestafrihist.2.1.0195 Cite Icon Cite Shar…
Zora Neale Hurston: Retrieving Folk Memory in Mules and Men
Social justice in the courtroom: Youth culture and multiple narrative voices in Eustace Palmer’s A Hanging Is Announced
African writers who have been concerned with governmental authority have sought to uncover the sources of injustice in the larger societal context, to redefine criminality beyond the focus on individual culpability. Using multiple narrative voices and the courtroom as literary space, Eustace Palmer’s A Hanging Is Announced exemplifies the search for social justice through representations of youth culture. Multiple narrative voices can be understo…
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