Afropolitanism and the Novel: De-realizing Africa

ISBN-13: 9780367235512 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 198 str.

Ashleigh Harris

Opis

This book extends this debate, arguing that Africa’s ‘de-realization’ in global representation and the global economy is reflected in the African novel becoming dominated by Afropolitan, rather than African, aesthetics, styles and forms. It eplores the literary form and its social, philosophical, political and economic underpinnings.

O autorze

Ashleigh Harris is Associate Professor of English at Uppsala University, Sweden. She has published widely on Zimbabwean and South African literature. Harris is currently leading the ‘African Street Literature and the Future of Literary Form’ research project at Uppsala University, which collects, archives, and analyses sub-Saharan literary forms that are produced and circulated outside of the formal publishing industry. Harris is also a participant in the ‘Cosmopolitan and Vernacular Dynamics in World Literature’ research project, based at Stockholm University.