The Defense of Culture in Ama Ata Aidoo’s No Sweetness Here: The Use of Orality as a Textual Strategy Ode Ogede‚ Ahmadu Bello University‚ Nigeria In her book African Novels and the Question of Orality‚ Eileen Julien bitterly attacks the notion that there is anything particularly African about orality or anything essentially oral about African culture. The "oral form‚" she contends‚ "is not the concrete literary simulacrum of African essence but is‚ rather‚ a manifestation of social consciousness
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Love in Literature We live in a complex world‚ where love and logic do not always exist cohesively‚ however‚ literature often brings these two elements together. Authors sometimes use the concept of love as a theme for their work‚ logically‚ and methodically using it as a tool in their writing. The different forms of love are often used by authors as a catalyst for positive character development. In this essay‚ works by different authors will be used to demonstrate some of the forms of love used
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Cited: Komunyakaa‚ Yusef. “Facing It”. Literature and the Writing Process. Ed. Elizabeth McMahan‚ Susan X Day‚ Robert Funk‚ and Linda Coleman. 9th ed. Upper Saddle River: Prentice‚ 2007. 427. Print. McMahan‚ Elizabeth‚ Susan X Day‚ Robert Funk‚ and Linda Coleman. Literature and the Writing Process. 9th ed. Upper Saddle River: Prentice‚ 2007. 427. Print. Szymborska‚ Wislawa. “End and Beginning”. Literature and the Writing Process. Ed. Elizabeth McMahan‚ Susan X Day‚ Robert
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INTRODUCTION Travel Literature is travel writing of literary value. This genre is also called ‘Travel Record Literature’. Travel literature typically records the experiences of an author touring a place for the pleasure of travel. An individual work is sometimes called a travelogue or itinerary. Travel literature may be cross-culture or transnational in focus‚ or may involve travel to different regions within the same country. Accounts of spaceflight may also be considered travel literature. Literary travelogues
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Bill Frino English 101-K Writing I Dr. J. Showler Research Paper 03/27/07 Racism in Literature “The violence of beast on beast is read As natural law‚ but upright man Seeks his divinity by inflicting pain.” - “A Far Cry from Africa” In these lines from Derek Walcott’s “A Far Cry from Africa‚” the speaker emphasizes the natural human tendencies to “inflict pain.” Similarly‚ in his poem‚ “Sympathy‚” Paul Dunbar explores pain from the point of view of a bird
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Philippine Literature How My Brother Leon Brought A Wife Submitted by: Ishmael E. Evangelista Submitted to: Score: _______ Content I. Title II. Author III. Setting IV. Characters a. Plot b. Exposition c. Complication d. Climax e. Denouement f. Resolution V. Reaction I. Title How my Brother Leon brought a Wife In the story‚ Leon arrived with his wife‚ Maria in the rural meeting Leon’s brother‚ Baldo for the first time. They took a surprising route home for Leon‚ but it was meant as
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Literature is an outlet of escape from reality. At the end of the day‚ I open a book and allow the story to take me to a world where my own fades into a distant memory. With every turn of a page‚ my imagination is free to reinvent a narrative that is better than the reality I live. Literature can be non-fiction and based on facts surrounding real events‚ people‚ and places. Examples include history books‚ memoirs‚ biographies‚ newspapers‚ self-help‚ devotionals‚ and textbooks. Literature can
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AFRICAN LITERATURE Africa is the second largest continent after Asia. It contains a complex mosaic of peoples‚ languages‚ and cultures. The number of spoken languages in Africa has been variously estimated at between 800 and 1‚700. The dominant religion of Northern Africa is Islam‚ which replaced Christianity in the 7th century and spread west and south across the Sahara and into the equatorial zones. African literature comprises the oral and written forms of the continent‚ composed in either
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Chameleons‚ translated from the Portuguese by Daniel Hahn. Set in contemporary Angola‚ the book is particularly notable for being narrated by a lizard. The judges this year were the poet David Constantine‚ writer and editor Jennie Erdal‚ Arts Council Literature officer Kate Griffin‚ novelist Ali Smith and the literary editor of the Independent‚ Boyd Tonkin. Admirably the prize is shared between the translator and author‚ thus honouring an art that often goes unsung. The book was evidently a popular choice
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CLASSIFICATIONs OF LITERATURE I. Divisions of Literature Literature Prose Poetry Fiction Nonfiction Dramatic Narrative Lyric Drama Short Story Novel Tale Fable Myth Legends Folktales Essay Biography Autobiography Diary History Chronicle News Anecdote Tragedy Comedy Opera Operetta Ballad Epic Metrical Tale Metrical Romance Ode Sonnet Song Elegy POINT OF COMPARISON | PROSE | POETRY | Form | Paragraph | Verse | Language | Words and rhythms of ordinary and everyday language | Metrical‚
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