03512nam 2200625 a 450 991045908030332120200520144314.090-420-3223-510.1163/9789042032231(CKB)2670000000060157(EBL)617746(OCoLC)695009764(SSID)ssj0000459529(PQKBManifestationID)12169467(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000459529(PQKBWorkID)10461510(PQKB)10700640(MiAaPQ)EBC617746(OCoLC)701240103(OCoLC)842878555(OCoLC)978103871(nllekb)BRILL9789042032231(Au-PeEL)EBL617746(CaPaEBR)ebr10432582(EXLCZ)99267000000006015720101220d2011 uy 0engurun| uuuuatxtccrNegotiating Afropolitanism[electronic resource] essays on borders and spaces in contemporary African literature and folklore /edited by Jennifer Wawrzinek and J.K.S. MakokhaAmsterdam ;New York, N.Y. Rodopi20111 online resource (360 p.)Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ;146Description based upon print version of record.90-420-3222-7 Includes bibliographical references.pt. 1. Border crossings, precarity, syncretism -- pt. 2. Dissidence, absence, transgression -- pt. 3. Unhomeliness, diasporic narration, heterotopia -- pt. 4. Language, borders, spaces.Negotiating Afropolitanism brings together scholars in African studies from across the world in order to critically examine the representations, transgressions, disruptions, and/or redrawings of borders and spaces in contemporary African literature, culture and folklore. The essays collected here offer innovative and fresh critical perspectives on postcolonial themes within contemporary Africa. Individually they investigate such themes as identity, diaspora, hybridity, translation, the space between, textual frontiers, translocation and multilocalities, migration, nomadology, polylingualism, and multiculturalism. Together they map the rich terrain of culture, literature and folklore in contemporary Africa, from the works of writers such as Idris Chraibi, Wole Soyinka, Ben Okri, E. B. Dongala, Calixthe Beyala, Patrice Nganang, Nuruddin Farah and Abdulrazak Gurnah, to those of Pepetela, Goretti Kyomuhendo, Jamal Mahjoub, Yusuf Dawood, M. G. Vassanji, and J. M. Coetzee, as well as Afrophone oral artists and radio performers. This volume will be of interest to anyone with an interest in African studies, postcolonialism, cultural and literary studies.Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ;146.African literature20th centuryHistory and criticismPostcolonialismAfricaAfricaSocial conditions20th centuryElectronic books.African literatureHistory and criticism.Postcolonialism809.93353Wawrzinek Jennifer880257Makokha J. K. S891877MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910459080303321Negotiating Afropolitanism1991962UNINA