Francis Ngaboh‐smart
Biographic Data
| ID | 91282 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Francis Ngaboh‐smart |
| GIVEN NAMES | Francis |
| FAMILY NAME | Ngaboh‐smart |
| SIGNATURE | SMART F N |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Truth and fiction: Or, orature and witnessing in Ishmael Beah'sA Long Way Gone
The publication in 2007 of Ishmael Beah’s memoir A Long Way Gone, which sold more than 62,000 copies within a few months, etched Sierra Leone in the global consciousness. The book’s popularity and wide circulation provoked a critical response from The Australian newspaper, which used its understanding of non-fiction to challenge the veracity of Beah’s version of the civil war, as well as the story’s time line. This article argues that Beah’s mult…
Re-narrating the nation: Soyinka'sThe Interpreters
The Interpreters, Soyinka's first novel, was greeted by critics as a critique of the postcolonial state, as one of the so‐called novels of post‐independent disillusionment. This article does not deny this aspect of Soyinka's social vision. The impulse behind the novel may well be the desire to expose the internal contradictions of the Nigerian nation: political independence without prosperity; the inability of the ruling class to displace the pol…
Nationalism and the Aporia of National Identity in Farah's Maps
Nuruddin Farah, the Somali writer and cultural critic, has become an influential presence on the African and world literary scenes. Farah's reputation may be due to the consistently high quality of his works as well as to his persistent questioning of some of the assumptions of Somali nationalists. Even in an early work such as From a Crooked Rib (1970), Farah uses the demeaning roles to which a largely patriarchal Somali society relegates women …
Nationalism and the Aporia of National Identity in Farah's Maps
Nuruddin Farah, Somali writer and cultural critic, has become an influential presence on African and world literary scenes. Farah's reputation may be due to consistendy high quality of his works as well as to his persistent questioning of some of assumptions of Somali nationalists. Even in an early work such as From a Crooked Rib (1970), Farah uses demeaning roles to which a largely patriarchal Somali soci? ety relegates women to criticize some o…
Secrets and a New Civic Consciousness
Farah's works have often used Somalia as an example to frame their critique of the postcolonial state by declining the cult of the merely unique that Somali nationalism posits. Especially since his last two novels, Maps and Gifts, he has so absorbed the lessons of postmodernism,1 namely, subjectivity as the disavowal of collective affiliation and general rules, comprehensive norms, or hegemonic systems of thought (Rosenau 54), as to undermine the…
Narrative as Tactics in Armah’s Two Thousand Seasons
The politics of black identity: Slave ShipandWoza Albert
Both Apartheid South Africa and white America relied on images or representation to mediate and distort the identity of blacks. In the United States, the misrepresentation dates as far back as 1619, when the first African slaves were brought to Virginia. In South Africa, the distortion predates 1652, the year Jan van Riebeeck landed at the Cape, but was intensified in 1948, when the nationalists came to power on an agenda of racial discrimination…
Re-narrating the nation: Soyinka'sThe Interpreters
The Interpreters, Soyinka's first novel, was greeted by critics as a critique of the postcolonial state, as one of the so‐called novels of post‐independent disillusionment. This article does not deny this aspect of Soyinka's social vision. The impulse behind the novel may well be the desire to expose the internal contradictions of the Nigerian nation: political independence without prosperity; the inability of the ruling class to displace the pol…
The politics of black identity: Slave ShipandWoza Albert
Both Apartheid South Africa and white America relied on images or representation to mediate and distort the identity of blacks. In the United States, the misrepresentation dates as far back as 1619, when the first African slaves were brought to Virginia. In South Africa, the distortion predates 1652, the year Jan van Riebeeck landed at the Cape, but was intensified in 1948, when the nationalists came to power on an agenda of racial discrimination…
The politics of black identity: Slave ShipandWoza Albert
Both Apartheid South Africa and white America relied on images or representation to mediate and distort the identity of blacks. In the United States, the misrepresentation dates as far back as 1619, when the first African slaves were brought to Virginia. In South Africa, the distortion predates 1652, the year Jan van Riebeeck landed at the Cape, but was intensified in 1948, when the nationalists came to power on an agenda of racial discrimination…
Secrets and a New Civic Consciousness
Farah's works have often used Somalia as an example to frame their critique of the postcolonial state by declining the cult of the merely unique that Somali nationalism posits. Especially since his last two novels, Maps and Gifts, he has so absorbed the lessons of postmodernism,1 namely, subjectivity as the disavowal of collective affiliation and general rules, comprehensive norms, or hegemonic systems of thought (Rosenau 54), as to undermine the…
Narrative as Tactics in Armah’s Two Thousand Seasons
Nationalism and the Aporia of National Identity in Farah's Maps
Nuruddin Farah, the Somali writer and cultural critic, has become an influential presence on the African and world literary scenes. Farah's reputation may be due to the consistently high quality of his works as well as to his persistent questioning of some of the assumptions of Somali nationalists. Even in an early work such as From a Crooked Rib (1970), Farah uses the demeaning roles to which a largely patriarchal Somali society relegates women …
Nationalism and the Aporia of National Identity in Farah's Maps
Nuruddin Farah, Somali writer and cultural critic, has become an influential presence on African and world literary scenes. Farah's reputation may be due to consistendy high quality of his works as well as to his persistent questioning of some of assumptions of Somali nationalists. Even in an early work such as From a Crooked Rib (1970), Farah uses demeaning roles to which a largely patriarchal Somali soci? ety relegates women to criticize some o…
Re-narrating the nation: Soyinka'sThe Interpreters
The Interpreters, Soyinka's first novel, was greeted by critics as a critique of the postcolonial state, as one of the so‐called novels of post‐independent disillusionment. This article does not deny this aspect of Soyinka's social vision. The impulse behind the novel may well be the desire to expose the internal contradictions of the Nigerian nation: political independence without prosperity; the inability of the ruling class to displace the pol…
Truth and fiction: Or, orature and witnessing in Ishmael Beah'sA Long Way Gone
The publication in 2007 of Ishmael Beah’s memoir A Long Way Gone, which sold more than 62,000 copies within a few months, etched Sierra Leone in the global consciousness. The book’s popularity and wide circulation provoked a critical response from The Australian newspaper, which used its understanding of non-fiction to challenge the veracity of Beah’s version of the civil war, as well as the story’s time line. This article argues that Beah’s mult…
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