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Routledge handbooks

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.

African literature > 21st century > History and criticism.

African literature > 20th century > History and criticism.