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Negotiating Afropolitanism : essays on borders and spaces in contemporary African literature and folklore /
Negotiating Afropolitanism brings together scholars in African studies from across the world in order to critically examine the representations, transgressions, disruptions, and/or redrawings of borders and spaces in contemporary African literature, culture and folklore. The essays collected here of...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; New York, N.Y. :
Rodopi,
2011.
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| Colección: | Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ;
146. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Afropolitanism and erudition in Francophone African novels, 1994-2000 / Sim Kilosho Kabale
- Precarity and picaresque in contemporary Nigerian prose: an exemplary reading of Ben Okri's The Famished Road / Jens Frederic Elze-Volland
- Border-crossing through myth-making: the unbarred muse in selected Nigerian literature / Sola Ogunbayo
- Syncretic worldviews in Wole Soyinka's The Interpreters / Fella Benabed
- Dogs and dissidents at the border: narrative outbreak in Patrice Nganang's Temps de Chien / Catherine Kroll
- Addressing the absent other in J.M. Coetzee's Age of Iron / Jennifer Wawrzinek
- Nearly ending the world the African way: Pepetela's suspension of capital's frontiers and flows in O Quase Fim do Mundo / Phillip Rothwell
- A post-mortem on the postmodern conflict and corporeality in Nuruddin Farah's Links / John E. Masterson
- Sociology/matriology in Maghreb writing: space and feminine transgression in Fanon's Sociologie d'une révolution and Chraibi's La Civilisation, ma mere! / Russell West-Pavlov
- Negotiating dislocated identities in the space of post-colonial chaos: Goretti Kyomuhendo's Waiting / Emilia Ilieva and Lennox Odiemo-Munara
- No place to call home: citizenship and belonging in M.G. Vassanji's The In-Between World of Vikram Lall / Nalini Iyer
- Weaving exilic narratives: homodigetic narration and postcolonial translocation in Abdulrazak Gurnah's Admiring Silence / Remmy Shiundu Barasa and J.K.S. Makokha
- Between diasporic identity and agency: versions of the pastoral in Gurnah's Pilgrims Way and Mahjoub's Navigation of a Rainmaker / Maria Jesus Cabarcos Traseira
- Locating cultural ambivalence and afropolitanism: Nairobi and Dar-es-Salaam as heterotopia in the fiction of Dawood and Vassanji / Godwin Siundu
- Across the language border: the case of bilingual writers in Tanzania / Mikhail Gromov
- Sheng literature in Kenya: socio-linguistic borders and spaces in popular poetry / Alina N. Rinkanya
- "Na hawa watu lazima wakuwe serious!": FM radio spaces and folkloric performance of cosmopolitan identities in Kenya / Mbugua wa Mungai
- Empire speaks back: authenticity, folk voices and re-presentation of across in Gikuyu radio narratives / Michael Wainaina.