Primorac Primorac
Biographic Data
| ID | 5604062 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Primorac Primorac |
| GIVEN NAMES | Primorac |
| FAMILY NAME | Primorac |
| SIGNATURE | PRIMORAC P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southampton |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
God's Arrows
The article contributes to scholarly conversations around the global prestige and appropriation of texts and forms, by considering some implications of the role of “Achebe” as an exemplary author figure in the formation and reproduction of Africa’s novelistic canon. I begin to propose new categories for critical engagement with “the African novel”, via rereading of The Arrow of God alongside Dominic Mulaisho’s 1971 The Tongue of the Dumb. Written…
Introduction: Arrow of God at Fifty
Introduction:Arrow of God at Fifty Madhu Krishnan, Stephen Morton, and Ranka Primorac On March 21, 2013, Nigerian author and the oft-cited "father" of Anglophone African literature, Chinua Achebe, died in his home in the United States at the age of eighty-three. Achebe's death, despite his advanced age, sent shockwaves through the literary community, spawning commemorations, eulogies, and dirges that celebrated his life and mourned his passing ac…
Legends of Modern Zambia
This article problematizes the terminological apparatus put forward by Karin Barber's paradigm-making “Popular Arts in Africa” by showing how it is interrogated by the cultural and social positioning of a Zambian literary archive from the early postcolonial period. The archive in question is the body of work published between 1964 and 1975 in the Lusaka-based journal New Writing from Zambia (NWZ), produced and circulated by members of a literary …
Cosmopolitanism and Social Change in a Zambian Thriller
This article challenges two common perceptions: that detective fiction is by definition geared towards representations of maintaining the social status quo, and that Zambian literature--preoccupied as it is with the city/country and modernity/tradition binaries--lacks cosmopolitan engagement. In Africa, as emergent research is showing, crime fiction has often been instrumental in both representing and transmitting social change. Furthermore, self…
Legends of Modern Zambia
This article problematizes the terminological apparatus put forward by Karin Barber's paradigm-making “Popular Arts in Africa” by showing how it is interrogated by the cultural and social positioning of a Zambian literary archive from the early postcolonial period. The archive in question is the body of work published between 1964 and 1975 in the Lusaka-based journal New Writing from Zambia (NWZ), produced and circulated by members of a literary …
Cosmopolitanism and Social Change in a Zambian Thriller
This article challenges two common perceptions: that detective fiction is by definition geared towards representations of maintaining the social status quo, and that Zambian literature--preoccupied as it is with the city/country and modernity/tradition binaries--lacks cosmopolitan engagement. In Africa, as emergent research is showing, crime fiction has often been instrumental in both representing and transmitting social change. Furthermore, self…
God's Arrows
The article contributes to scholarly conversations around the global prestige and appropriation of texts and forms, by considering some implications of the role of “Achebe” as an exemplary author figure in the formation and reproduction of Africa’s novelistic canon. I begin to propose new categories for critical engagement with “the African novel”, via rereading of The Arrow of God alongside Dominic Mulaisho’s 1971 The Tongue of the Dumb. Written…
Cosmopolitanism and Social Change in a Zambian Thriller
This article challenges two common perceptions: that detective fiction is by definition geared towards representations of maintaining the social status quo, and that Zambian literature--preoccupied as it is with the city/country and modernity/tradition binaries--lacks cosmopolitan engagement. In Africa, as emergent research is showing, crime fiction has often been instrumental in both representing and transmitting social change. Furthermore, self…
Legends of Modern Zambia
This article problematizes the terminological apparatus put forward by Karin Barber's paradigm-making “Popular Arts in Africa” by showing how it is interrogated by the cultural and social positioning of a Zambian literary archive from the early postcolonial period. The archive in question is the body of work published between 1964 and 1975 in the Lusaka-based journal New Writing from Zambia (NWZ), produced and circulated by members of a literary …
God's Arrows
The article contributes to scholarly conversations around the global prestige and appropriation of texts and forms, by considering some implications of the role of “Achebe” as an exemplary author figure in the formation and reproduction of Africa’s novelistic canon. I begin to propose new categories for critical engagement with “the African novel”, via rereading of The Arrow of God alongside Dominic Mulaisho’s 1971 The Tongue of the Dumb. Written…
Introduction: Arrow of God at Fifty
Introduction:Arrow of God at Fifty Madhu Krishnan, Stephen Morton, and Ranka Primorac On March 21, 2013, Nigerian author and the oft-cited "father" of Anglophone African literature, Chinua Achebe, died in his home in the United States at the age of eighty-three. Achebe's death, despite his advanced age, sent shockwaves through the literary community, spawning commemorations, eulogies, and dirges that celebrated his life and mourned his passing ac…
History (4 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (4 works) · African history and culture studies (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Comparative and World Literature (2 works) · History (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · South African History and Culture (2 works) · Adventure (1 works)