Umfang:
1 online resource (371 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9789042032231
Serie:
Internationale Forschungen Zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft Ser.
Inhalt:
Negotiating Afropolitanism brings together scholars in African studies from across the world in order to critically examine the representations, transgressions, disruptions, and/or redrawings of borders and spaces in contemporary African literature, culture and folklore. The essays collected here offer innovative and fresh critical perspectives on postcolonial themes within contemporary Africa. Individually they investigate such themes as identity, diaspora, hybridity, translation, the space between, textual frontiers, translocation and multilocalities, migration, nomadology, polylingualism, and multiculturalism. Together they map the rich terrain of culture, literature and folklore in contemporary Africa, from the works of writers such as Idris Chraibi, Wole Soyinka, Ben Okri, E. B. Dongala, Calixthe Beyala, Patrice Nganang, Nuruddin Farah and Abdulrazak Gurnah, to those of Pepetela, Goretti Kyomuhendo, Jamal Mahjoub, Yusuf Dawood, M. G. Vassanji, and J. M. Coetzee, as well as Afrophone oral artists and radio performers. This volume will be of interest to anyone with an interest in African studies, postcolonialism, cultural and literary studies.
Inhalt:
Intro -- Negotiating Afropolitanism: Essays on Borders and Spaces in Contemporary African Literature and Folklore -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword: On Afropolitanism -- Introduction: In the Spirit of Afropolitanism -- Part I: Border Crossings, Precarity, Syncretism -- Afropolitanism and Erudition in Francophone African Novels, 1994 - 2000 -- Precarity and Picaresque in Contemporary Nigerian Prose: An Exemplary Reading of Ben Okri's The Famished Road -- Border-Crossing Through Myth-Making: The Unbarred Muse in Selected Nigerian Literature -- Syncretic Worldviews in Wole Soyinka's The Interpreters -- Part II: Dissidence, Absence, Transgression -- Dogs and Dissidents at the Border: Narrative Outbreak in Patrick Nganang's Temps de Chien -- Addressing the Absent Other in J. M. Coetzee's Age of Iron -- Nearly Ending the World the African Way: Pepetela's Suspension of Capital's Frontiers and Flows in O Quase Fim do Mundo -- A Post-mortem on the Postmodern? Conflict and Corporeality in Nuruddin Farah's Links -- Sociology/Matriology in Maghreb Writing: Space and Feminine Transgression in Fanon's Sociologie d'une révolution and Chraibi's La Civilisation, ma mere! -- Part III: Unhomeliness, Diasporic Narration, Heterotopia -- Negotiating Dislocated Identities in the Space of Post-Colonial Chaos: Goretti Kyomuhendo's Waiting -- No Place to Call Home: Citizenship and Belonging in M.G. Vassanji's The In-Between World of Vikram Lall -- Weaving Exilic Narratives: Homodiegetic Narration and Postcolonial Translocation in Abdulrazak Gurnah's Admiring Silence -- Between Diasporic Identity and Agency: Versions of the Pastoral in Gurnah's Pilgrims Way and Mahjoub's Navigation of a Rainmaker -- Locating Cultural Ambivalence and Afropolitanism: Nairobi and Dar-es-Salaam as Heterotopia in the Fiction of Dawood and Vassanji.
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Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9789042032224
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9789042032224
Sprache:
Englisch
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