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Indigeneity, Globalization, and African LiteratureThe Perils of a Culture-less African Literature in the Age of Globalization

Indigeneity, Globalization, and African Literature: The Perils of a Culture-less African... [By now I have been associated with the idea that a writer is not an air-plant but someone rooted in a specific place or environment and time. Place and time are respectively geography and history and they form the bedrock of human experience. The two factors have bearing on culture. An intrinsic aspect of a place or environment is the culture which has evolved over time as the inhabitants attempt to reconcile their ways to the physical world and reality they face on a daily basis. This means that the writer is born into, if not raised in, lives or appropriates a culture that feeds his or her creative impulse. The culture of a people gives grounding to an artistic creation with its aesthetics, which impels the artist to have at the back of his or her mind the function of the work being created and the anticipated pleasure to the audience—the society for whom the work is created. Certain criteria might therefore exist in the creation of an artistic work within a culture. As such, those who are masters or judges of the artistic creations can say, “This is the way it is done so that it will be this when completed.”] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Indigeneity, Globalization, and African LiteratureThe Perils of a Culture-less African Literature in the Age of Globalization

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Copyright
© Tanure Ojaide 2015
ISBN
978-1-137-54220-5
Pages
3 –17
DOI
10.1057/9781137560032_1
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Abstract

[By now I have been associated with the idea that a writer is not an air-plant but someone rooted in a specific place or environment and time. Place and time are respectively geography and history and they form the bedrock of human experience. The two factors have bearing on culture. An intrinsic aspect of a place or environment is the culture which has evolved over time as the inhabitants attempt to reconcile their ways to the physical world and reality they face on a daily basis. This means that the writer is born into, if not raised in, lives or appropriates a culture that feeds his or her creative impulse. The culture of a people gives grounding to an artistic creation with its aesthetics, which impels the artist to have at the back of his or her mind the function of the work being created and the anticipated pleasure to the audience—the society for whom the work is created. Certain criteria might therefore exist in the creation of an artistic work within a culture. As such, those who are masters or judges of the artistic creations can say, “This is the way it is done so that it will be this when completed.”]

Published: Dec 16, 2015

Keywords: Literary Work; Indigenous Culture; African Culture; African Language; Literary Creation

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