At Penpoint : African Literatures, Postcolonial Studies, and the Cold War /

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"AT PENPOINT aims to rewrite the story of postcolonial African literary and cultural production as one profoundly influenced by the Cold War. Monica Popescu shows how postcolonial studies of African literature have too often neglected the key institutional and aesthetic influence asserted by So...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Popescu, Monica, 1973- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2020.
Colección:Theory in forms.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Literature and society > Africa.
Politics and literature > Africa.
Postcolonialism > Africa.
Cold War > Influence.
African literature > Soviet influences.
African literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Africa > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Pens and guns : literary autonomy, artistic commitment and secret sponsorships
  • Aesthetic world-systems : mythologies of modernism and realism
  • Creating futures, producing theory : strike, revolution and the morning after
  • The hot Cold War : rewriting the global conflict through southern Africa
  • Conclusion. From postcolonial to world literature studies : the continued relevance of the Cold War.

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