Narrating African futures : in(ter)ventions and agencies in African and African diasporic fiction /: in(ter)ventions and agencies in African and African diasporic fiction. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Susan Arndt, Nadja Ofuatey-Alazard.
• Editors: Arndt, Susan, 1967-; Ofuatey-Alazard, Nadja
• Contents: Preface – On futureS, or: the future is on Susan Arndt and Nadja Ofuatey-Alazard 1. Dream*hoping memory into futureS: reading resistant narratives about Maafa by employing futureS as a category of analysis Susan Arndt 2. Diaspora dynamics: shaping the future of literature Noah Sow 3. I am a fundamentalist of freedom Wole Soyinka 4. Do African digital natives wear glass skirts? Teju Cole 5. Digital Africa Françoise Vergès 6. Black face in hyperspace Raimi Gbadamosi 7. Pumzi; the labyrinth of futureS Shirin Assa 8. Whiteness and future environmentalism in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace (1999) Weeraya Donsomsakulkij 9. Contemporary Cameroon poetry in English, nature and the politics of consciousness raising for the future Eunice Ngongkum 10. Ayi Kwei Armah’s secular egalitarian Africa: an authentic vision or a utopian dialectic Jerome Masamaka 11. Khal Torabully. "Coolies" and corals, or living in transarchipelagic worlds Ottmar Ette 12. In transition: self-expression in recent African LGBTIQ narratives John C. Hawley
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 809.8896; African literature -- Themes, motives; Future in literature
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429657306
• Related ISBNs: 9780429659744; 9780429654862; 9780429023620
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