Contingent Canons: African Literature and the Politics of Location (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781108445375)

This Element explores the mechanisms through which 'African literature', as a market category, has been consecrated within the global literary field. Drawing on archival, textual and field-based research, it proposes that the normative story of African literary writing has functioned to efface a broader material history of African literary production located on and oriented to the continent itself.

Author: Madhu Krishnan
ISBN-10: 1108445373
ISBN-13: 9781108445375
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/08/2018
Pages: 75
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.23lbs
Size: 7.00h x 5.00w x 0.23d