UID:
almafu_9961119058802883
Format:
1 online resource (ix, 277 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781009300308
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1-009-30026-1
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1-009-30030-X
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1-009-30031-8
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in world literature
Content:
China in Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century African Literature unpacks the long-standing complexity of exchanges between Africans and Chinese as far back as the Cold War and beyond. This scope encompasses how China, which emerged as a main engine of the world economy by the end of the twentieth century, has transformed patterns of globalization across the continent. In this ground-breaking work on cultural representations, Duncan M. Yoon examines the controversial symbol of China in African literature. He reads acclaimed authors like Kofi Awoonor, Henri Lopes, and Bessie Head, as well as contemporary writers, including Ufrieda Ho, Kwei Quartey, and Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor. Each chapter focuses on a genre such as poetry, detective fiction, memoir, and the novel, drawing out themes like resource extraction, diaspora, gender, and race. Yoon demonstrates how African creative voices grapple with and make meaning out of the possibilities and limitations of globalization in an increasingly multipolar world.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Jun 2023).
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Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Epigraph -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: African Literary Imaginaries of China -- Why Literature? -- African Literature, Elsewhere -- History and Symbol in Africa-China Relations -- The Alluvial as a Key Concept -- Chapter 1 Kofi Awoonor Imagines China: The Longue Durée of Ghana-PRC Relations -- Ghana-PRC Relations -- The Poet-Heno as Diplomat -- The Alluvium of History -- ''The Black Eagle Awakes'' -- Thinking across Cold War Blocs -- In Prison with Mao -- ''The Red Bright Book of History'' -- ''Xiansi, Pou Tou Dalla'' -- Chapter 2 Figures of Extraction: Representations of Mining in Ghana and Zambia -- Galamsey Gold Mining in Ghana -- Gold of Our Fathers -- The Extractive and the Planetary as Alluvial Durées -- Colonial Trauma and Postcolonial Masculinity -- Corruption and the Afro-pessimistic Durée -- The Politics of Language and Chinese Extractivism -- Copper Nationalism and Zambia-China Relations -- Zambia-China Relations -- A Casualty of Power -- The Alluvial Durées of Zambia-China Relations -- The Extractive Time of Labor -- Resource Nationalism and Racism -- Cultures of Work -- The Revolutionary Durée -- Nchekelako and the Afro-pessimistic Durée -- Chapter 3 Figures of Risk: Memoirs of a Chinese South African and a Cameroonian in China -- Chinese Diasporas in Africa -- African Diasporas in China -- Autobiographical Writing and the Diasporic Experience -- The Gambler as a Figure of Risk in Ufrieda Ho's Paper Sons and Daughters -- South Africa-China Relations -- Paper Sons and Daughters -- The Pathology of Deracination -- The Alluvial Dreams of the Gambler -- Papered Positions -- Language and Identity -- Bushfalling in China: The Trickster as a Figure of Risk in Jean Tardif Lonkog's The Black Man and His Visa -- Cameroon-PRC Relations.
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The Black Man and His Visa -- ''A Body of [Alluvial] Dreams'' -- In the Chinese Bush -- Chapter 4 Racialization and Afro-Chinese Identity: Henri Lopès's Le lys et le flamboyant -- Racializations of the Chinese in Africa -- Racializations of Africans in China -- Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville) and PRC Relations -- Multiracial Identity in Le lys et le flamboyant -- The Racialized Gaze -- Phenotypic Frustrations -- An Anxiety about Origins -- The Language of ''l'écriture métisse'' -- Métissage and Narrative Form -- Conclusion: Forming Afro-Chinese Worlds -- History and Literary Form -- Littoral Form and Owuor's The Dragonfly Sea -- Coda: The Fractal Form of History -- Notes -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Yoon, Duncan M. China in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century African Literature Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,c2023 ISBN 9781009300278
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009300315
