In search of the Afropolitan : encounters, conversations, and contemporary diasporic African literature /: encounters, conversations, and contemporary diasporic African literature. ([2016])
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- Book
- Title:
- In search of the Afropolitan : encounters, conversations, and contemporary diasporic African literature /: encounters, conversations, and contemporary diasporic African literature. ([2016])
- Main Title:
- In search of the Afropolitan : encounters, conversations, and contemporary diasporic African literature
- Further Information:
- Note: Eva Rask Knudsen and Ulla Rahbek.
- Authors:
- Knudsen, Eva Rask
Rahbek, Ulla - Contents:
- Opening: in search of the Afropolitan -- Afropolitanism: a contested field and its trajectories: the authors in conversation with Simon Gikandi -- The vexed question of mobility -- Here, there, and elsewhere: the unhinging of home and belonging -- "Africans of the world" and the politics of (re-)connection: the authors in conversation with Kwame Anthony Appiah, Minna Salami, Emma Dabiri, and Asta Busingye Lydersen -- The authors in conversation with Sefi Atta, Chika Unigwe, and Brian Chikwava -- Sharing and caring: storytelling and Afropolitan communities -- A complex weave: "race, " gender, and Afropolitan love -- Less-fortunate Afropolitans, "lapsed Africans, " and class conundrums, a statement by Taiye Selasi -- Endnotes: Afropolitan narratives, tropes, and styles.
- Publisher Details:
- London Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield International, Ltd
- Publication Date:
- 2016
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (vii, 317 pages)
- Subjects:
- 820.996
Political Science: Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
African literature (English) -- 21st century -- History and criticism
African diaspora in literature
Africans -- Race identity
Group identity -- Africa
African diaspora in literature
African literature (English)
Africans -- Race identity
Group identity
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Social Science: Anthropology / Cultural
Social Science: Black Studies (Global)
Africa
Criticism, interpretation, etc
Electronic books
Electronic books - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781783483556
1783483555 - Related ISBNs:
- 9781783483532
1783483539
9781783483549
1783483547 - Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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