Routledge handbook of African literature /

The turn of the twenty-first century has witnessed an expansion of critical approaches to African literature. The Routledge Handbook of African Literature is a one-stop publication bringing together studies of African literary texts that embody an array of newer approaches applied to a wide range of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Adejunmobi, Moradewun, 1959- (Editor ), Coetzee, Carli (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
Temas:
1900-2099
African literature > 21st century > History and criticism.
African literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Littérature africaine > 21e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature africaine > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > African.
African literature
Handbook
literature
Electronic books.
handbooks.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Handbooks and manuals.
Guides et manuels.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Moradewun Adejunmobi and Carli Coetzee
  • Mapping political agencies
  • Children of the Cold War: rethinking African literary generations through the global conflict / Monica Popescu
  • Ethics and the politics of the ordinary in African literature / Chielozona Eze
  • Globalisation, mobility and labour in diasporic African fiction / Anna-Leena Toivanen
  • Towards an ethics of the humanitarian imagination / Allison Mackey
  • Journeys, geographies, identities
  • Decolonising the Afropolitan: intra-African migrations in post-2000 literature / Rebecca Fasselt
  • History, imperial eyes and the "mutual gaze": narratives of African-Chinese encounters in recent literary works / Ying Cheng
  • Ethnicity in post-2000 African writing / Agogho Akpome
  • Mythopoesis of the self: nation, textuality and writer as political hero / Rotimi Fasan
  • Working through genre
  • How to be a writer in your 30s in Lagos: self-help literature and the creation of authority in Africa / Rebecca Jones
  • Gothic supernaturalism in the "African imagination": locating an emerging form / Rebecca Duncan
  • Contested filial voice in African female-authored autobiographies / Marciana Were
  • "I can't go forward, I must go back:" Ben Okri's (p)anachronistic utopias / Ian MacDonald
  • The world of and beyond humans
  • African literature, audience, and the search for the (non)human / Cajetan Iheka
  • Dirty ecology: African women and the ethics of cultivation / Sarah Lincoln
  • African fictions, animal figures, and anthropocentric frameworks / Jesse Arsenault
  • Depictions of Kenyan lands and landscapes by four women writers / Ng'ang'a Muchiri
  • Everyday sociality
  • Geopolitical and global topologies in fiction: Islam at the fault lines and the world / Shirin Edwin
  • Appetite and everyday life in African literature / Delores B Phillips
  • Foundational fictions: variations of the marriage plot in Flora Nwapa's early anglophone-Igbo novels / Fiona Moolla
  • Drinking scenes: alcohol in the Francophone African novel / Pim Higginson
  • Bodies, subjectivities, affect
  • Desire and freedom in Yvonne Vera's fiction / Grace Musila
  • The forms of shame and African literature / Naminata Diabate
  • Scattered testimony: locating the Rwandan genocide in transnational witnessing / Martina Kopf
  • Contestations through same-sex desire in Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi's Kintu / Edgar Nabutanyi
  • Literary networks
  • The story club: literary networks offline / Stephanie Bosch Santana
  • Languages and prizes: expanding literary boundaries / Doseline Kiguru
  • Publishers' networks and the making of 21st century African literature in English / Kate Wallis
  • Literary networks in the Horn of Africa: Oromo and Amharic intellectual histories / Sara Marzagora and Ayele Kebede.

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