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African Literatures as World Literature

By Alexander Fyfe

African Literatures as World Literature Contemporary literature

African Literatures as World Literature

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The enormous success of writers such as Teju Cole and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie demonstrates that African literatures are now an international phenomenon. But the apparent global legibility of a small number of (mostly Anglophone) writers in the diaspora raises the question of how literary producers from the continent, both past and present, have situated their work in relation to the world and the kinds of material networks to which this corresponds. This collection shows how literatures from across the African continent engage with conceptualizations of 'the world' in relation to local social and political issues.
Focusing on a wide variety of geographic, historical and linguistic contexts, the essays in this volume seek answers to the following questions: What are the topographies of 'the world' in different literary texts and traditions? What are that world's limits, boundaries and possibilities? How do literary modes and forms such as realism, narrative poetry or the political essay affect the presentation of worldliness? What are the material networks of circulation that allow African literatures to become world literature? African literatures, it emerges, do important theoretical work that speaks to the very core of world literary studies today.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
284
Release Date:
2022-12-01
Publication Date:
2022-12-01
Publisher:
Bloomsbury 3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
150137995X
ISBN13:
9781501379956
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
566 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
20 cm
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