Afropolitan literature as world literature. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by James Hodapp.
• Editors: Hodapp, James
• Contents: Introduction: Africa and the Rest / James Hodapp -- The Worlds of Afropolitan World Literature: Modeling Intra-African Afropolitanism in Yvonne Adhiambo Owuour's Dust / Birgit Neumann -- Strategic Label: Afropolitan Literature in Germany / Anna von Rath -- Afropolitanism and the Afro-Asian Diaspora in M.G. Vassanji's And Home Was Kariakoo / Shilpa Daithota Bhat -- "White Man's Magic": A. Igoni Barrett's Blackass, Afropolitanism, and (Post)Racial Anxieties / Julie Iromuanya -- Toward an Environmental Theory of Afropolitan Literature / Juan Meneses -- How Afropolitanism Unworlds the African World / Amatoritsero Ede -- Afropolitan Aesthetics as an Ethics of Openness / Chielozona Eze -- Fingering the Jagged Grain: Rereading Afropolitanism (and Africa) in Taiye Selasi's Ghana Must Go / Aretha Phiri -- "Part Returnee and Part-Tourist": The Afropolitan Travelogue in Noo Saro-Wiwa's Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria / Rocio Cobo-Piñero -- "Something covered but not hidden": Obscurity in Teju Cole's Oeuvre as an Afropolitan Way of Worlding / Julian Wacker -- The Hesitant Local: The Global Citizens of Open City and Americanah / Lara El Makkawi.
• Publisher Details: New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2020
• Copyright Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (viii, 240 pages)
• Subjects: 820.996; African literature (English) -- History and criticism; Comparative literature; Literary studies: post-colonial literature; African literature (English); Comparative literature; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781501342608; 1501342606; 9781501342592; 1501342592
• Related ISBNs: 9781501342585
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 17, 2020).
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