Routledge Handbook of African Literature

ISBN-13: 9781138713864 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 476 str.

Moradewun Adejunmobi; Carli Coetzee

Opis

The Routledge Handbook of African Literature is a one-stop publication bringing together studies of African literary texts that embody an array of newer approaches applied to a wide range of works.

Spis treści

1. Introduction [Moradewun Adejunmobi and Carli Coetzee]  Part I: Mapping Political Agencies  2. Children of the Cold War: Rethinking African Literary Generations through the Global Conflict [Monica Popescu]  3. Ethics and the Politics of the Ordinary in African Literature [Chielozona Eze]  4. Globalisation, Mobility and Labour in Diasporic African Fiction [Anna-Leena Toivanen]  5. Towards an Ethics of the Humanitarian Imagination [Allison Mackey]  Part II: Journeys, Geographies, Identities  6. Decolonising the Afropolitan: Intra-African Migrations in Post-2000 Literature [Rebecca Fasselt]  7. History, Imperial Eyes and the ‘Mutual Gaze’: Narratives of African-Chinese Encounters in Recent Literary Works [Ying Cheng]  8. Ethnicity in Post-2000 African Writing [Agogho Akpome]  9. Mythopoesis of the Self: Nation, Textuality and Writer as Political Hero [Rotimi Fasan]  Part III: Working Through Genre  10. How to be a Writer in Your 30s in Lagos: Self-Help Literature and the Creation of Authority in Africa [Rebecca Jones]  11. Gothic Supernaturalism in the ‘African Imagination’: Locating an Emerging Form [Rebecca Duncan]  12. Contested Filial Voice in African Female-Authored Autobiographies [Marciana Were]  13. ‘I Can’t Go Forward, I Must Go Back:’ Ben Okri’s (P)anachronistic Utopias [Ian MacDonald]  Part IV: The World of and Beyond Humans  14. African Literature, Audience, and the Search for the (Non)Human [Cajetan Iheka]  15. Dirty Ecology: African Women and the Ethics of Cultivation [Sarah Lincoln]  16. African Fictions, Animal Figures, and Anthropocentric Frameworks [Jesse Arsenault]  17. Depictions of Kenyan Lands and Landscapes by Four Women Writers [Ng’ang’a Muchiri]  Part V: Everyday Sociality  18. Geopolitical and Global Topologies in Fiction: Islam at the Fault Lines and the World [Shirin Edwin]  19. Appetite and Everyday Life in African Literature [Delores B Phillips]  20. Foundational Fictions: Variations of the Marriage Plot in Flora Nwapa’s Early Anglophone- Igbo Novels [Fiona Moolla]  21. Drinking Scenes: Alcohol in the Francophone African Novel [Pim Higginson]  Part VI: Bodies, Subjectivities, Affect  22. Desire and Freedom in Yvonne Vera’s Fiction [Grace Musila]  23. The Forms of Shame and African Literature [Naminata Diabate]  24. Scattered Testimony: Locating the Rwandan Genocide in Transnational Witnessing [Martina Kopf]  25. Contestations through Same-Sex Desire in Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi’s Kintu  [Edgar Nabutanyi]  Part VII: Literary Networks and Circulation  26. The Story Club: Literary Networks Offline [Stephanie Bosch Santana]  27. Languages and Prizes: Expanding Literary Boundaries [Doseline Kiguru]  28. Publishers’ Networks and the Making of 21^st Century African Literature in English [Kate Wallis]  29. Literary Networks in the Horn of Africa: Oromo and Amharic Intellectual Histories [Sara Marzagora and Ayele Kebede]