African Literatures as World Literature by Fyfe, Alexander

African Literatures as World Literature (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781501379994)

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African Literatures as World Literature by Fyfe, Alexander

African Literatures as World Literature

$39.95
African Literatures as World Literature by Fyfe, Alexander

African Literatures as World Literature

$39.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Alexander Fyfe
ISBN-10: 1501379992
ISBN-13: 9781501379994
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Language: English
Published: 06/27/2024
Pages: 284
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60d
By Alexander Fyfe
By Alexander Fyfe
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Alexander Fyfe is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and African Studies at the University of Georgia. His articles have appeared in Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Research in African Literatures, and Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, among other venues. He has guest-edited special issues of African Identities and (with Rosemary Jolly) The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry.

Madhu Krishnan is Professor of African, World and Comparative Literatures in the Department of English at the University of Bristol, UK. She is author of three books: Contemporary African Literature in English: Global Locations, Postcolonial Identifications (2014), Writing Spatiality in West Africa: Colonial Legacies in the Anglophone/Francophone Novel (2018); and Contingent Canons: African Literature and the Politics of Location (2018).

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