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This volume provides scholars and students with a birds-eye view of the stories African literature has told about itself. It elaborates on Africa's contributions to an evolving, transnational literary vocabulary and though its organization around key terms rather than specific periods or national canons, Intellectual Traditions of African Literature also facilitates movement between and across African traditions: its framework is intrinsically comparative. As befits a project of this scale and versatility, its contributors are drawn from across professional ranks, areas of geographical and subfield expertise, and academies of origin. By contextualizing African literature within a larger set of literary terms and movements, it demonstrates that African literature is intrinsically worldly and transnational, even at points of local historical engagement.
Contents
Introduction Cajetan Iheka and Jeanne-Marie Jackson; I. Decolonization Currents: 1. Unfinished communities: African novels, African nationalisms Jill Jarvis; 2. Pan-Africanism Tsitsi Jaji; 3. Negritude and the promise of African literature Doyle Calhoun; 4. Third Worldism in African literature: China as a trope in Dongala's fiction Duncan M. Yoon; 5. Modernism and the chimera of modernity in African letters Nathan Suhr-Sytsma; 6. Magical realism in African literatures Christopher Warnes; 7. Orality and modern African writing Isidore Diala; II. Theoretical Turn: 8. The African location of postcolonialism Stefan Helgesson; 9. Descartes in his pith helmet: Afrofuturism and genre theory Ranka Primorac; 10. Poststructuralism Michael Syrotinski; 11. Feminisms in African literature: conceptualizations and epistemic shifts in the twentieth and twenty-first century Asante Mtenje; 12. The Anatomy of African queer fiction, criticism, and theory: the evolution of a genre Edgar Nabutanyi; III. Contemporary Reconfigurations or Shifting Globalities and Positionalities: 13. The African ecological imaginary Kirk B. Sides; 14. Aesthetics of immobility and the digital in Afropolitan literatures James Yékú; 15. 'The World Is up for Grabs': African literature's positionality and the struggle for universality Mohammad Shabangu; 16. Digital Africas Ainehi Edoro-Glines; 17. The black diaspora's African imagination Ama Bemma Adwetewa-Badu; 18. Trauma theory and postcolonial African fiction Thando Njovane; 19. The materialisms of African literature? Madhu Krishnan.
