Debating the Afropolitan. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Emilia María Durán-Almarza, Ananya Jahanara Kabir, Carla Rodríguez González.
• Editors: Durán-Almarza, Emilia María; Kabir, Ananya Jahanara, 1970-; Rodríguez González, Carla
• Contents: Introduction: Debating the Afropolitan Emilia María Durán-Almarza, Ananya Jahanara Kabir and Carla Rodríguez González 1. An Afropolitan literary aesthetics? Afropolitan style and tropes in recent diasporic African fiction Eva Rask Knudsen and Ulla Rahbek 2. Afropolitan in their own way? Writing and self-identification in Aminatta Forna and Chika Unigwe Patricia Bastida-Rodríguez 3. Lost in translation: re-reading the contemporary Afrodiasporic condition in Taiye Selasi’s Ghana Must Go Aretha Phiri 4. Negotiating singularity and alikeness: Esi Edugyan, Lawrence Hill and Canadian Afrodiasporic writing Isabel Carrera-Suárez 5. Transforming the body, transculturing the city: Nalo Hopkinson’s fantastic Afropolitans Miasol Eguíbar Holgado 6. Cosmopolitanism’s new clothes? The limits of the concept of Afropolitanism Anna-Leena Toivanen
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 820.996; African literature (English) -- History and criticism; Africans in literature; Postcolonialism in literature
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429662973
• Related ISBNs: 9780429665691; 9780429660252; 9780429023132
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