TY - BOOK ID - 145085162 TI - Cultural dynamics of globalization and African literature AU - Dixon, Sandra AU - Spleth, Janice AU - African Literature Association. PY - 2016 SN - 9781569024829 PB - Trenton : Africa World Press, DB - UniCat KW - African literature KW - Literature and globalization KW - Littérature africaine. KW - Littérature et mondialisation UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:145085162 AB - The term "globalization" can be seen as "a double-edged sword" with positive and negative effects on a society's traditional cultural practices. While heralding the triumph of modernity over tradition, it tends to threaten local values.The 33rd Annual Conference of the African Literature Association addressed globalization from the perspective of African and African-heritage writers. The papers selected for this anthology provide a representative overview of globalization's cultural dynamics as explored by our keynote speakers and by scholars of African literature attending the conference from around the world.The interview with the late South African poet and activist Dennis Brutus serves as a point of departure in the discussion of the social, linguistic, economic, and political changes that globalization has brought to Africa. Cultural alterations as perceived by Africans and African descendants are examined within colonial and postcolonial contexts in sections that address cultural conflict, the politics of language, gender, feminism, cultural hybridity, and immigrant identity.The conference keynote speakers--author Syl Cheney-Coker of Sierra Leone, Guinean novelist Tierno Monénembo, Ivorian writer Régina Yaou, and Afro-Dominican performance artist Josefina Báez--describe the positive and negative attributes of globalization; however, each, in his or her own way, appreciates how it brings cultures into contact, producing many kinds of cultural and ethnic blending as well as infinite possibilities for mutual enrichment. ER -