Knowledge Commons | West African Literature | Activity https://hcommons.org/groups/west-african-literature/ Activity feed for the group, West African Literature. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 22:04:10 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 544816b15ee97b9d87c46f1b903f2157 Irene Marques deposited Spaces of Magic: Couto’s Relational Practices in the group West African Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1623241/ Thu, 08 Nov 2018 16:27:22 -0500 Through a detailed analysis of the story “The Three Sisters” from Mia Couto’s collection O Fio das Missangas (“The Bead Necklace”) published in 2004, I reveal how Couto recreates a space where relational practices are at the forefront of existence. I analyse this specific story to reveal Couto’s relational practices and its accompanyin…[Read more]

]]> 0 e27cadf06687dc6f07e1119eeab34044 Irene Marques deposited Looking for ‘God’ in Non-Identity: Reading the Transcendental in Agualusa’s The Book of Chameleons in the group West African Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1623238/ Thu, 08 Nov 2018 16:27:18 -0500 . I demonstrate how The Book of Chameleons is replete with metaphors of what I call the “non-self,” or “supra-self,” or even “God,” which are commonly found in Zen Buddhist thought, classical African epistemological and ontological paradigms, and more specifically, the idea of African Personality as put forward by Léopold S. Senghor or even in s…[Read more]

]]> 0 024ff35c4055d61177a6244442876496 Irene Marques deposited Suspending the ‘Lack’ Through Art: African and Western Epistemological and Artistic Intersections (Mia Couto, Wole Soyinka, Léopold Senghor, Gaston Bachelard and Mark Epstein) in the group West African Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1623235/ Thu, 08 Nov 2018 16:27:16 -0500 As a continuation of my previous transcultural comparative project, the current study aims to unearth some other similarities that exist between African classical knowledge systems, as put forward in the writing of Mia Couto and the work of other Africanists such as Wole Soyinka, Jacob Olupona and Léopold Senghor— in respect to their links to po…[Read more]

]]> 0 8169319c25dfb21a4314d9ed8c139f1e Peggy Wright-Cleveland posted an update in the group West African Literature: I am working to create an open-access, crowd-sourced […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1590366/ Tue, 28 Nov 2017 20:07:28 -0500 I am working to create an open-access, crowd-sourced bibliography of work by and about Bernard Binlin Dadié, in French or English. If you have access to an out-of-print text and would like to share as a citation, please do. If you are willing to upload your own open-access work, please do, as well.

]]> 0 bc683dccbf4a70c9844a45de3e6bf6df Peggy Wright-Cleveland created the group West African Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1590365/ Tue, 28 Nov 2017 20:05:52 -0500 0