Malawian Resistance Literature

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Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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This book traces the evolution and characteristics of Malawian poetry of resistance, which emerged during the late 1960s and the early 1990s and is distinguished by its expressive modes and concerns. Creative writings during this period reflected new sensibilities and anxieties in the era of Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda’s dictatorial rule, which resulted in the censorship of writings critical of the government, and the imprisonment of the authors. This study examines the second generation of Malawian poets and nonfiction writers from the 1970s to the present, along with the younger generation of Malawian speculative fiction writers, novelists, artists, and sculptors published between 2000 and 2021, to connect their voices to other generations and wider issues in African literature and art. It covers a number of themes, including exile (life in the west/diaspora), tyranny, prison literature, activism, protest tradition and resistance, orality, intertextuality, Afropolitanism and cosmopolitanism, exile, folklore, childhood, wars, Black Lives Matter, ecocriticism, and disability.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-04-07
Mått148 x 210 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieAfrican Histories and Modernities
FörlagSpringer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN9783032129598

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Dike Okoro, Professor Emeritus and former Chairperson of the Humanities Department at Harris-Stowe State University, USA, is currently serving a two-year term as Senior Research Fellow with the Ken Saro-Wiwa Foundation. His accolades include the Newberry Scholar-in-Residence Award and the Sam Walton Fellowship. He is the author of Futurism and the African Imagination: Literature and Other Arts (2021), Mazisi Kunene: Literature, Activism, and African Worldview (2023), and Lupenga Mphande: Ecocritical Poet/Political Activist (2020). Okoro studied English and poetry, earning his MFA from Chicago State University and his PhD in English from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. A noted literary critic and essayist, he has edited several anthologies of African poetry and short stories. His edited volume We Have Crossed Many Rivers: New Poetry from Africa was shortlisted by Human Rights Careers Magazine (UK) as one of five Vocal Human Rights Poetry Books inspiring change.

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: National Memory and Myth in the poetry of Frank Chipasula, Stella Chipasula, Edison Mpina, Lupenga Mphande, Steve Chimombo Jack Mapanje and Others.- Chapter 3: Tragic Vision and Historical realism: A Discussion of Malawian poetry in Jack Mapanje‘s Gathering Seaweed: African Prison Writing and other prison narratives by Malawian poets during Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda‘s reign as president.- Chapter 4: Aspects of futurism (Africanfuturism or African futurism) in Malawian speculative fiction.- Chapter 5: The Depiction of Motherhood/Mother in Malawian/Southern African literature: A Discussion of Symbols and Metaphors.- Chapter 6: Celebrating the heritage that is your own: the importance of myth, symbolism, and African history in the work of British/Malawian artist/writer, Samson Kambalu.- Chapter 7: A Brief History of Malawi Literature and Performance Arts and The Gulu Wam Kulu Dance Group (A Conversation between Dike Okoro and Lupenga Mphande).- Chapter 8: Teaching African history through literature: A Discussion context and content in the works of Paul Zeleza, Jack Mapanje, Lupenga Mphande and Others.- Chapter 9: Malawian poetry‘s rich oral tradition: Discussing the poetry of Jack Mapanje, Felix Mnthali, Steve Chimimbo, Frank Chipasula, Zondiwe Mbano and Lupenga Mphande.- Chapter 10: Lupenga Mphande: Autobiographical Poet of Thoza, Malawi.