Debating the Afropolitan

ISBN-13: 9780367085780 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 104 str.

Emilia Maria Duran-Almarza; Ananya Jahanara Kabir; Carla Rodriguez Gonzalez

Opis

This volume assesses the continued vitality of the ‘Afropolitan’ within the ways Africa, cosmopolitanism, and the global circulation of culture interact today. This book was originally published as a special issue of the European Journal of English Studies.

Spis treści

Introduction: Debating the Afropolitan  1. An Afropolitan literary aesthetics? Afropolitan style and tropes in recent diasporic African fiction  2. Afropolitan in their own way? Writing and self-identification in Aminatta Forna and Chika Unigwe  3. Lost in translation: re-reading the contemporary Afrodiasporic condition in Taiye Selasi’s Ghana Must Go  4. Negotiating singularity and alikeness: Esi Edugyan, Lawrence Hill and Canadian Afrodiasporic writing  5. Transforming the body, transculturing the city: Nalo Hopkinson’s fantastic Afropolitans  6. Cosmopolitanism’s new clothes? The limits of the concept of Afropolitanism