Routledge handbook of African literature. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Handbook of African literature; African literature
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Moradewun Adejunmobi and Carli Coetzee.
• Editors: Adejunmobi, Moradewun, 1959-; Coetzee, Carli
• Contents: 1. Introduction [Moradewun Adejunmobi and Carli Coetzee] Part I: Mapping Political Agencies 2. Children of the Cold War: Rethinking African Literary Generations through the Global Conflict [Monica Popescu] 3. Ethics and the Politics of the Ordinary in African Literature [Chielozona Eze] 4. Globalisation, Mobility and Labour in Diasporic African Fiction [Anna-Leena Toivanen] 5. Towards an Ethics of the Humanitarian Imagination [Allison Mackey] Part II: Journeys, Geographies, Identities 6. Decolonising the Afropolitan: Intra-African Migrations in Post-2000 Literature [Rebecca Fasselt] 7. History, Imperial Eyes and the ‘Mutual Gaze’: Narratives of African-Chinese Encounters in Recent Literary Works [Ying Cheng] 8. Ethnicity in Post-2000 African Writing [Aghogho Akpome] 9. Mythopoesis of the Self: Nation, Textuality and Writer as Political Hero [Rotimi Fasan] Part III: Working Through Genre 10. How to be a Writer in Your 30s in Lagos: Self-Help Literature and the Creation of Authority in Africa [Rebecca Jones] 11. Gothic Supernaturalism in the ‘African Imagination ’: Locating an Emerging Form [Rebecca Duncan] 12. Contested Filial Voice in African Female-Authored Autobiographies [Marciana Were] 13. ‘I Can’t Go Forward, I Must Go Back :’ Ben Okri’s (P)anachronistic Utopias [Ian MacDonald] Part IV: The World of and Beyond Humans 14. African Literature, Audience, and the Search for the (Non)Human [Cajetan Iheka] 15. Dirty Ecology: African Women and the Ethics of Cultivation [Sarah Lincoln] 16. African Fictions, Animal Figures, and Anthropocentric Frameworks [Jesse Arsenault] 17. Depictions of Kenyan Lands and Landscapes by Four Women Writers [Ng’ang’a Muchiri] Part V: Everyday Sociality 18. Geopolitical and Global Topologies in Fiction: Islam at the Fault Lines and the World [Shirin Edwin] 19. Appetite and Everyday Life in African Literature [Delores B Phillips] 20. Foundational Fictions: Variations of the Marriage Plot in Flora Nwapa’s Early Anglophone- Igbo Novels [Fiona Moolla] 21. Drinking Scenes: Alcohol in the Francophone African Novel [Pim Higginson] Part VI: Bodies, Subjectivities, Affect 22. Desire and Freedom in Yvonne Vera’s Fiction [Grace Musila] 23. The Forms of Shame and African Literature [Naminata Diabate] 24. Scattered Testimony: Locating the Rwandan Genocide in Transnational Witnessing [Martina Kopf] 25. Contestations through Same-Sex Desire in Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi’s Kintu [Edgar Nabutanyi] Part VII: Literary Networks and Circulation 26. The Story Club: Literary Networks Offline [Stephanie Bosch Santana] 27. Languages and Prizes: Expanding Literary Boundaries [Doseline Kiguru] 28. Publishers’ Networks and the Making of 21st Century African Literature in English [Kate Wallis] 29. Literary Networks in the Horn of Africa: Oromo and Amharic Intellectual Histories [Sara Marzagora and Ayele Kebede]
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 820.996; African literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism; African literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351859370; 9781351859387; 9781351859363; 9781315229546
• Related ISBNs: 9781138713864
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