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Dealing with Evils : Essays on Writing from Africa, Paperback / softback Book

Dealing with Evils : Essays on Writing from Africa Paperback / softback

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In a collection of sixteen essays, Gagiano addresses over twenty texts from various African regions and periods.

The works discussed here range from transcriptions of ancient (Khoikhoi / San) folktales to some of the classic texts of the African English literary canon and include recent writing about urgent contemporary social and gender issues.

As the title indicates, Annie Gagiano's focus is on the way these texts engage with the forces that damage and threaten life and quality of life in various African contexts.

She pays tribute -- by means of carefully argued analyses -- to the authors' political courage and social concern and to their subtle delineations of their African character' experiences.

Central to her focus is the verbal artistry of these authors' memorable and complex representations.

Her collection as a whole insists on the philosophical and aesthetic importance of African texts of the kind discussed here -- to the global reading public as much as to the 'real world' of their original contexts.

Along with a new preface, several new essays have been added to the new 2014 edition to bring the collection up to date with the latest developments in the field of study.

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