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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798572703321

Autore

Knudsen Eva Rask

Titolo

In search of the Afropolitan : encounters, conversations and contemporary diasporic African literature / / Eva Rask Knudsen and Ulla Rahbek

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham : , : Rowman & Littlefield International, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

1-78348-354-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (327 pages)

Disciplina

820.996

Soggetti

African literature (English) - 21st century - History and criticism

African diaspora in literature

Africans - Race identity

Group identity - Africa

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Opening: in search of the Afropolitan -- Afropolitanism: a contested field and its trajectories: the authors in conversation with Simon Gikandi -- The vexed question of mobility -- Here, there, and elsewhere: the unhinging of home and belonging -- "Africans of the world" and the politics of (re-)connection: the authors in conversation with Kwame Anthony Appiah, Minna Salami, Emma Dabiri, and Asta Busingye Lydersen -- The authors in conversation with Sefi Atta, Chika Unigwe, and Brian Chikwava -- Sharing and caring: storytelling and Afropolitan communities -- A complex weave: "race," gender, and Afropolitan love -- Less-fortunate Afropolitans, "lapsed Africans," and class conundrums, a statement by Taiye Selasi -- Endnotes: Afropolitan narratives, tropes, and styles.