{"product_id":"world-making-narratives-alessandra-di-pietro-9783032144126","title":"World-Making Narratives: Contemporary African Women's Writing","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis open access book sets out to investigate how contemporary African women writers are challenging traditional ideas of Postcolonial and World Literature. This study offers an alternative framework of analysis, one in which the term \"world\" is not a mere adjective, but it refers to a re-evaluation of the notion of the world as a temporal category. The focus on the world's temporality opens up to a reassessment of literature as a poietic force. The study analyses novels written by contemporary Anglophone and Francophone authors of African origin such as Taiye Selasi, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, NoViolet Bulawayo, and Alice Zeniter, demonstrating how their literary works can be read as world-making narratives of resistance. Engaging in the debate regarding the place of so-called Afropolitan literature within the global literary market, the current study argues that some contemporary postcolonial novels written by diasporic authors can be instances of literature's poietic capacities. By offering an alternative analysis of such literary works, this book unveils their role as world-making narratives that can challenge post-\/neo-colonial legacies of oppression in today's globalised societies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alessandra Di Pietro\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3032144124\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783032144126\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Palgrave MacMillan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/24\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 241\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.63d","brand":"Alessandra Di Pietro","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48487477248255,"sku":"9783032144126","price":59.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5abd0d70-5822-4e69-9262-720b52867dfa.jpg?v=1778060671","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/world-making-narratives-alessandra-di-pietro-9783032144126","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}