TY  - BOOK
AU  - Adejunmobi,Moradewun
AU  - Coetzee,Carli
TI  - Routledge handbook of African literature
SN  - 9781138713864 (hardback)
AV  - PR9340 .R68 2019
U1  - 820.9 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - African literature
KW  - 21st century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - 20th century
N1  - Includes index; Introduction; Moradewun Adejunmobi and Carli Coetzee --; Mapping political agencies --; Children of the Cold War: rethinking African literary generations through the global conflict; Monica Popescu --; Ethics and the politics of the ordinary in African literature; Chielozona Eze --; Globalisation, mobility and labour in diasporic African fiction; Anna-Leena Toivanen --; Towards an ethics of the humanitarian imagination; Allison Mackey --; Journeys, geographies, identities --; Decolonising the Afropolitan: intra-African migrations in post-2000 literature; Rebecca Fasselt --; History, imperial eyes and the "mutual gaze": narratives of African-Chinese encounters in recent literary works; Ying Cheng --; Ethnicity in post-2000 African writing; Agogho Akpome --; Mythopoesis of the self: nation, textuality and writer as political hero; Rotimi Fasan --; Working through genre --; How to be a writer in your 30s in Lagos: self-help literature and the creation of authority in Africa; Rebecca Jones --; Gothic supernaturalism in the "African imagination": locating an emerging form; Rebecca Duncan --; Contested filial voice in African female-authored autobiographies; Marciana Were --; "I can't go forward, I must go back:" Ben Okri's (p)anachronistic utopias; Ian MacDonald --; The world of and beyond humans --; African literature, audience, and the search for the (non)human; Cajetan Iheka --; Dirty ecology: African women and the ethics of cultivation; Sarah Lincoln --; African fictions, animal figures, and anthropocentric frameworks; Jesse Arsenault --; Depictions of Kenyan lands and landscapes by four women writers; Ng'ang'a Muchiri --; Everyday sociality --; Geopolitical and global topologies in fiction: Islam at the fault lines and the world; Shirin Edwin --; Appetite and everyday life in African literature; Delores B Phillips --; Foundational fictions: variations of the marriage plot in Flora Nwapa's early anglophone-Igbo novels; Fiona Moolla --; Drinking scenes: alcohol in the francophone African novel; Pim Higginson --; Bodies, subjectivities, affect --; Desire and freedom in Yvonne Vera's fiction; Grace Musila --; The forms of shame and African literature; Naminata Diabate --; Scattered testimony: locating the Rwandan genocide in transnational witnessing; Martina Kopf --; Contestations through same-sex desire in Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi's Kintu; Edgar Nabutanyi --; Literary networks --; The story club: literary networks offline; Stephanie Bosch Santana --; Languages and prizes: expanding literary boundaries; Doseline Kiguru --; Publishers' networks and the making of 21st century African literature in English; Kate Wallis --; Literary networks in the Horn of Africa: Oromo and Amharic intellectual histories; Sara Marzagora and Ayele Kebede
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