Contemporary African Literature in English explores the contours of representation in contemporary Anglophone African literature, drawing on a wide range of authors including Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Aminatta Forna, Brian Chikwava, Ngug? wa Thiong'o, Nuruddin Farah and Chris Abani.
Autorentext
Madhu Krishnan is Lecturer in 20th and 21st century Postcolonial Writing at the University of Bristol, UK. Her research considers the construction and dissemination of a transnational idea of Africa in contemporary African writing, with particular interests in representation, space and transnationality. She has published numerous articles on African literatures and postcolonial studies in journals including ARIEL, Research in African Literatures, CLIO and Journal of Commonwealth Literature.
Inhalt
Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Ethics, Conflict and Re(-)presentation 2. Race, Class and Performativity 3. Gender and Representing the Unrepresentable 4. Mythpoetics and Cultural Re-Creation 5. Global African Literature: Strategies of Address and Cultural Constraints Conclusion Bibliography
Titel
Contemporary African Literature in English
Untertitel
Global Locations, Postcolonial Identifications
Autor
EAN
9781137378330
ISBN
978-1-137-37833-0
Format
E-Book (pdf)
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Veröffentlichung
20.03.2014
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Wasserzeichen
Dateigrösse
1.69 MB
Anzahl Seiten
222
Jahr
2014
Untertitel
Englisch
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