In search of the Afropolitan : encounters, conversations, and contemporary diasporic African literature /: encounters, conversations, and contemporary diasporic African literature. ([2016])

• Record Type: Book
• 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.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 23, 2016).
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