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Afropolitan literature as world literature
Title
Afropolitan literature as world literature / edited by James Hodapp.
ISBN
9781501342585
1501342584
9781501342592
9781501342608
Publication
New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
Physical Description
viii, 233 pages ; 24 cm.
Summary
"Explores the disparate creative works that are characterized as "Afropolitan literature," contextualizing them within the fundamental questions of world literature, such as translation, circulation, and cultural specificity while also examining Afropolitan ideology itself as a new African way of seeing and being."-- Provided by publisher.
Other formats
Online version: Afropolitan literature as world literature New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 21, 2020
Series
Literatures as world literature
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: Africa and the Rest / James Hodapp
The Worlds of Afropolitan World Literature: Modeling Intra-African Afropolitanism in Yvonne Adhiambo Owuour's Dust / Birgit Neumann
Strategic Label: Afropolitan Literature in Germany / Anna von Rath
Afropolitanism and the Afro-Asian Diaspora in M. G. Vassanji's And Home Was Kariakoo / Shilpa Daithota Bhat
"White Man's Magic": A. Igoni Barrett's Blackass, Afropolitanism, and (Post)Racial Anxieties / Julie Iromuanya
Toward an Environmental Theory of Afropolitan Literature / Juan Meneses
How Afropolitanism Unworlds the African World / Amatoritsero Ede
Afropolitan Aesthetics as an Ethics of Openness / Chielozona Eze
Fingering the Jagged Grain: Rereading Afropolitanism (and Africa) in Taiye Selasi's Ghana Must Go / Aretha Phiri
"Part Returnee and Part-Tourist": The Afropolitan Travelogue in Noo Saro-Wiwa's Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria / Rocio Cobo-Piñero
"Something covered but not hidden": Obscurity in Teju Cole's Oeuvre as an Afropolitan Way of Worlding / Julian Wacker
The Hesitant Local: The Global Citizens of Open City and Americanah / Lara El Makkawi.
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