John Conteh-Morgan
Biographic Data
| ID | 90057 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Conteh-Morgan |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Conteh-Morgan |
| SIGNATURE | CONTEH-MORGAN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sierra Leone |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
New Francophone African and Caribbean Theatres
Conteh-Morgan (Ohio State Univ.) and Thomas (UCLA) investigate key historical periods in the emergence of theater in sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean, primarily the latter, specifically Martinique, Guadeloupe, and Guyana. They compare theater trends and trace the interaction between the African and Caribbean cultures in their colonial and postcolonial contexts. The book analyzes how the Francophone Caribbean and African playwrights attempted …
The Original Explosion That Created Worlds: Essays on Werewere Liking’s Art and Writings
“The Original Explosion That Created Worlds” is the first book entirely devoted to the Cameroonian Werewere Liking, one of the most important writers and innovative artists of post-colonial Africa. The book includes a wide-ranging collection of essays by some of Liking’s finest critics addressing her life and work, from her earlier fiction and social criticism to her later experimental drama, which has been produced on stages around the world. Se…
The Struggle for Meaning: Reflections on Philosophy, Culture, and Democracy in Africa
The Struggle for Meaning: Reflections on Philosophy, Culture, and Democracy Africa. By Paulin J. Hountondji. Translated by John Conteh-Morgan, with foreword by K. Anthony Appiah. Center for International Studies at Ohio University Research International Studies, Africa Series, No. 78. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2002. Pp. xxiv, 308. $28.00 paper. How do we, at level of ideas and their production, begin to understand, let alone explain, transfo…
Nationalists and Nomads: Essays onFrancophone African Literature and Culture (review)
Miller, Christopher. 1999. Nationalists and Nomads: Essays on Francophone African Literature and Culture. Chicago: Chicago University Press. 258 pp. $46.00 (cloth) $19.00 (paper)
Drama and Performance
Theatre and Drama in Francophone Africa: A Critical Introduction
Theatre and Drama in Francophone Africa
Theatre and Drama in Francophone Africa: A Critical Introduction
Faces of Islam in African Literature
Index of Subjects, Proverbs, and Themes in the Writings of Wole Soyinka
A New Poetic Voice From Senegal: A Preliminary Reading of Amadou Lamine Sall's « Comme un iceberg en flammes
Discourse and the Other: The Production of the Afro-American Text
The central thesis of Lawrence Hogue's book is that criticism of Afro-American literature has left out of account the way in which ideological pressures dictate the canon. This fresh approach to the study of the social, ideological, and political dynamics of the Afro-American literary text in the twentieth century, based on the Foucauldian concept of literature as social institution, examines the universalization that power effects, how literary …
Beyond race: Class conflict and tragic vision in an African novel
Books/Livres
Source-Materials to African Literature
History or Literature: A Critical Study of Bernard Dadie's Beatrice du Congo
RÉSUMÉL'article analyse la relation entre les événements historiques et la construction littéraire dans Béatrice du Congo de Bernard Dadié. Il met en relief les moyens littéraire qu'utilise Dadié pour transmettre son message. Son intérˆt pour le Royaume du Kongo vient de l'opportunité qu'il lui est donné d'examiner la colonisation européenne opposée à la spécificité de tout État africain et ses mécanismes. L'invention de certains épisodes histori…
Le Médecin de Campagne » de Balzac et l'idéologie colonialiste
Theatre and Drama in Francophone Africa: A Critical Introduction
The Original Explosion That Created Worlds: Essays on Werewere Liking’s Art and Writings
“The Original Explosion That Created Worlds” is the first book entirely devoted to the Cameroonian Werewere Liking, one of the most important writers and innovative artists of post-colonial Africa. The book includes a wide-ranging collection of essays by some of Liking’s finest critics addressing her life and work, from her earlier fiction and social criticism to her later experimental drama, which has been produced on stages around the world. Se…
Le Médecin de Campagne » de Balzac et l'idéologie colonialiste
Books/Livres
Source-Materials to African Literature
History or Literature: A Critical Study of Bernard Dadie's Beatrice du Congo
RÉSUMÉL'article analyse la relation entre les événements historiques et la construction littéraire dans Béatrice du Congo de Bernard Dadié. Il met en relief les moyens littéraire qu'utilise Dadié pour transmettre son message. Son intérˆt pour le Royaume du Kongo vient de l'opportunité qu'il lui est donné d'examiner la colonisation européenne opposée à la spécificité de tout État africain et ses mécanismes. L'invention de certains épisodes histori…
Beyond race: Class conflict and tragic vision in an African novel
A New Poetic Voice From Senegal: A Preliminary Reading of Amadou Lamine Sall's « Comme un iceberg en flammes
Discourse and the Other: The Production of the Afro-American Text
The central thesis of Lawrence Hogue's book is that criticism of Afro-American literature has left out of account the way in which ideological pressures dictate the canon. This fresh approach to the study of the social, ideological, and political dynamics of the Afro-American literary text in the twentieth century, based on the Foucauldian concept of literature as social institution, examines the universalization that power effects, how literary …
Index of Subjects, Proverbs, and Themes in the Writings of Wole Soyinka
Faces of Islam in African Literature
Theatre and Drama in Francophone Africa
Theatre and Drama in Francophone Africa: A Critical Introduction
Theatre and Drama in Francophone Africa: A Critical Introduction
Drama and Performance
Nationalists and Nomads: Essays onFrancophone African Literature and Culture (review)
Miller, Christopher. 1999. Nationalists and Nomads: Essays on Francophone African Literature and Culture. Chicago: Chicago University Press. 258 pp. $46.00 (cloth) $19.00 (paper)
The Struggle for Meaning: Reflections on Philosophy, Culture, and Democracy in Africa
The Struggle for Meaning: Reflections on Philosophy, Culture, and Democracy Africa. By Paulin J. Hountondji. Translated by John Conteh-Morgan, with foreword by K. Anthony Appiah. Center for International Studies at Ohio University Research International Studies, Africa Series, No. 78. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2002. Pp. xxiv, 308. $28.00 paper. How do we, at level of ideas and their production, begin to understand, let alone explain, transfo…
New Francophone African and Caribbean Theatres
Conteh-Morgan (Ohio State Univ.) and Thomas (UCLA) investigate key historical periods in the emergence of theater in sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean, primarily the latter, specifically Martinique, Guadeloupe, and Guyana. They compare theater trends and trace the interaction between the African and Caribbean cultures in their colonial and postcolonial contexts. The book analyzes how the Francophone Caribbean and African playwrights attempted …
The Original Explosion That Created Worlds: Essays on Werewere Liking’s Art and Writings
“The Original Explosion That Created Worlds” is the first book entirely devoted to the Cameroonian Werewere Liking, one of the most important writers and innovative artists of post-colonial Africa. The book includes a wide-ranging collection of essays by some of Liking’s finest critics addressing her life and work, from her earlier fiction and social criticism to her later experimental drama, which has been produced on stages around the world. Se…
History (12 works) · Art (10 works) · African history and culture studies (9 works) · Literature (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Drama (5 works) · French (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · History (4 works)