Afropolitan Literature as World Literature (Literatures as World Literature)

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Afropolitan Literature as World Literature (Literatures as World Literature)

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  • 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 248 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9781501372452
  • DDC分類 820.996

Full Description

African literature has never been more visible than it is today. Whereas Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, and Ngugi wa Thiong'o defined a golden generation of African writers in the 20th century, a new generation of "Afropolitan" writers including Chimamanda Adichie, Teju Cole, Taiye Selasi, and NoViolet Bulawayo have taken the world by storm by snatching up prestigious awards and selling millions of copies of their works.

But what is the new, increasingly fashionable and marketable, Afropolitan vision of Africa's place in the world that they offer? How does it differ from that of previous generations? Why do some dissent? Afropolitanism refuses to reinforce images of Africa in world media as merely poor, war-torn, diseased, and constantly falling into chaos. By complicating the image of Africa as a hapless victim, Afropolitanism focuses on the wide-ranging influence Africa has on the world. However, some have characterized this kind of writing as light, populist fare that panders to Western audiences.

Afropolitan Literature as World Literature examines the controversy surrounding Afropolitan literature in light of the unprecedented circulation of culture made possible by globalization, and ultimately argues for expanding its geographic and temporal boundaries.

Contents

1. Introduction: Africa and the Rest
James Hodapp (Northwestern University, Qatar)
2. The Worlds of Afropolitan World Literature: Modeling Intra-African Afropolitanism in Yvonne Adhiambo Owuour's Dust
Birgit Neumann (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany)
3. Strategic Label: Afropolitan Literature in Germany
Anna von Rath (University of Potsdam, Germany)
4. Afropolitanism and the Afro-Asian Diaspora in M.G. Vassanji's And Home Was Kariakoo
Shilpa Daithota Bhat (Ahmedabad University, India)
5. "White Man's Magic": A. Igoni Barrett's Blackass, Afropolitanism, and (Post)Racial Anxieties
Julie Iromuanya (University of Chicago, USA)
6. Toward an Environmental Theory of Afropolitan Literature
Juan Meneses (University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA)
7. How Afropolitanism Unworlds the African World
Amatoritsero Ede (University of the Bahamas)
8. Afropolitan Aesthetics as an Ethics of Openness
Chielozona Eze (Northeastern Illinois University, USA)
9. Fingering the Jagged Grain: Rereading Afropolitanism (and Africa) in Taiye Selasi's Ghana Must Go
Aretha Phiri (Rhodes University, South Africa)
10. "Part Returnee and Part-Tourist": The Afropolitan Travelogue in Noo Saro-Wiwa's Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria
Rocío Cobo-Piñero (University of Seville, Spain)
11. "Something Covered But Not Hidden": Obscurity in Teju Cole's Oeuvre as an Afropolitan Way of Worlding
Julian Wacker (University of Muenster, Germany)
12. The Hesitant Local: The Global Citizens of Open City and Americanah
Lara El Makkawi (American University of Beirut, Lebanon)

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