Routledge handbook of African literature /
Routledge handbook of African literature /
edited by Moradewun Adejunmobi and Carli Coetzee.
- xiv,462p.: 25cm.
Includes index.
Introduction / Children of the Cold War: rethinking African literary generations through the global conflict / Ethics and the politics of the ordinary in African literature / Globalisation, mobility and labour in diasporic African fiction / Towards an ethics of the humanitarian imagination / Decolonising the Afropolitan: intra-African migrations in post-2000 literature / History, imperial eyes and the "mutual gaze": narratives of African-Chinese encounters in recent literary works / Ethnicity in post-2000 African writing / Mythopoesis of the self: nation, textuality and writer as political hero / How to be a writer in your 30s in Lagos: self-help literature and the creation of authority in Africa / Gothic supernaturalism in the "African imagination": locating an emerging form / Contested filial voice in African female-authored autobiographies / "I can't go forward, I must go back:" Ben Okri's (p)anachronistic utopias / African literature, audience, and the search for the (non)human / Dirty ecology: African women and the ethics of cultivation / African fictions, animal figures, and anthropocentric frameworks / Depictions of Kenyan lands and landscapes by four women writers / Geopolitical and global topologies in fiction: Islam at the fault lines and the world / Appetite and everyday life in African literature / Foundational fictions: variations of the marriage plot in Flora Nwapa's early anglophone-Igbo novels / Drinking scenes: alcohol in the francophone African novel / Desire and freedom in Yvonne Vera's fiction / The forms of shame and African literature / Scattered testimony: locating the Rwandan genocide in transnational witnessing / Contestations through same-sex desire in Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi's Kintu / The story club: literary networks offline / Languages and prizes: expanding literary boundaries / Publishers' networks and the making of 21st century African literature in English / Literary networks in the Horn of Africa: Oromo and Amharic intellectual histories / Moradewun Adejunmobi and Carli Coetzee -- Monica Popescu -- Chielozona Eze -- Anna-Leena Toivanen -- Allison Mackey -- Rebecca Fasselt -- Ying Cheng -- Agogho Akpome -- Rotimi Fasan -- Rebecca Jones -- Rebecca Duncan -- Marciana Were -- Ian MacDonald -- Cajetan Iheka -- Sarah Lincoln -- Jesse Arsenault -- Ng'ang'a Muchiri -- Shirin Edwin -- Delores B Phillips -- Fiona Moolla -- Pim Higginson -- Grace Musila -- Naminata Diabate -- Martina Kopf -- Edgar Nabutanyi -- Stephanie Bosch Santana -- Doseline Kiguru -- Kate Wallis -- Sara Marzagora and Ayele Kebede. Mapping political agencies -- Journeys, geographies, identities -- Working through genre -- The world of and beyond humans -- Everyday sociality -- Bodies, subjectivities, affect -- Literary networks --
9781138713864 (hardback) 9781315229546 (ebook)
2018049132
African literature--History and criticism.--21st century
African literature--History and criticism.--20th century
PR9340 / .R68 2019
820.9 / ROU
Includes index.
Introduction / Children of the Cold War: rethinking African literary generations through the global conflict / Ethics and the politics of the ordinary in African literature / Globalisation, mobility and labour in diasporic African fiction / Towards an ethics of the humanitarian imagination / Decolonising the Afropolitan: intra-African migrations in post-2000 literature / History, imperial eyes and the "mutual gaze": narratives of African-Chinese encounters in recent literary works / Ethnicity in post-2000 African writing / Mythopoesis of the self: nation, textuality and writer as political hero / How to be a writer in your 30s in Lagos: self-help literature and the creation of authority in Africa / Gothic supernaturalism in the "African imagination": locating an emerging form / Contested filial voice in African female-authored autobiographies / "I can't go forward, I must go back:" Ben Okri's (p)anachronistic utopias / African literature, audience, and the search for the (non)human / Dirty ecology: African women and the ethics of cultivation / African fictions, animal figures, and anthropocentric frameworks / Depictions of Kenyan lands and landscapes by four women writers / Geopolitical and global topologies in fiction: Islam at the fault lines and the world / Appetite and everyday life in African literature / Foundational fictions: variations of the marriage plot in Flora Nwapa's early anglophone-Igbo novels / Drinking scenes: alcohol in the francophone African novel / Desire and freedom in Yvonne Vera's fiction / The forms of shame and African literature / Scattered testimony: locating the Rwandan genocide in transnational witnessing / Contestations through same-sex desire in Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi's Kintu / The story club: literary networks offline / Languages and prizes: expanding literary boundaries / Publishers' networks and the making of 21st century African literature in English / Literary networks in the Horn of Africa: Oromo and Amharic intellectual histories / Moradewun Adejunmobi and Carli Coetzee -- Monica Popescu -- Chielozona Eze -- Anna-Leena Toivanen -- Allison Mackey -- Rebecca Fasselt -- Ying Cheng -- Agogho Akpome -- Rotimi Fasan -- Rebecca Jones -- Rebecca Duncan -- Marciana Were -- Ian MacDonald -- Cajetan Iheka -- Sarah Lincoln -- Jesse Arsenault -- Ng'ang'a Muchiri -- Shirin Edwin -- Delores B Phillips -- Fiona Moolla -- Pim Higginson -- Grace Musila -- Naminata Diabate -- Martina Kopf -- Edgar Nabutanyi -- Stephanie Bosch Santana -- Doseline Kiguru -- Kate Wallis -- Sara Marzagora and Ayele Kebede. Mapping political agencies -- Journeys, geographies, identities -- Working through genre -- The world of and beyond humans -- Everyday sociality -- Bodies, subjectivities, affect -- Literary networks --
9781138713864 (hardback) 9781315229546 (ebook)
2018049132
African literature--History and criticism.--21st century
African literature--History and criticism.--20th century
PR9340 / .R68 2019
820.9 / ROU