In search of the Afropolitan : encounters, conversations, and contemporary diasporic African literature /

In Search of the Afropolitan explores human encounters and moments that speak to the challenges of being a 21st century African of the world. Against the background of an engaging evaluation of the heated debate on Afropolitanism and what constitutes an Afropolitan, the authors turn to literature an...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Knudsen, Eva Rask (Autor), Rahbek, Ulla (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield International, Ltd., [2016]
Temas:
2000-2099
African literature (English) > 21st century > History and criticism.
African diaspora in literature.
Africans > Race identity.
Group identity > Africa.
Littérature africaine (anglaise) > 21e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Africains > Pays étrangers, dans la littérature.
Africains > Identité ethnique.
Identité collective > Afrique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
African diaspora in literature
African literature (English)
Africans > Race identity
Group identity
Africa
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Opening: in search of the Afropolitan
  • Afropolitanism: a contested field and its trajectories: the authors in conversation with Simon Gikandi
  • The vexed question of mobility
  • Here, there, and elsewhere: the unhinging of home and belonging
  • "Africans of the world" and the politics of (re- )connection: the authors in conversation with Kwame Anthony Appiah, Minna Salami, Emma Dabiri, and Asta Busingye Lydersen
  • The authors in conversation with Sefi Atta, Chika Unigwe, and Brian Chikwava
  • Sharing and caring: storytelling and Afropolitan communities
  • A complex weave: "race," gender, and Afropolitan love
  • Less-fortunate Afropolitans, "lapsed Africans," and class conundrums, a statement by Taiye Selasi
  • Endnotes: Afropolitan narratives, tropes, and styles.

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