LEADER 03387nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910808483103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4384-2697-6 010 $a1-4416-2054-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9781438426976 035 $a(CKB)1000000000788357 035 $a(OCoLC)436221735 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10588684 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000099719 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11124682 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000099719 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10019610 035 $a(PQKB)10478281 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3408136 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3408136 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10588684 035 $a(DE-B1597)683202 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781438426976 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000788357 100 $a20090219d2009 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAfrica writes back to self $emetafiction, gender, sexuality /$fEvan Maina Mwangi 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAlbany $cState University of New York Press$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (363 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-4384-2681-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction : Writing Back to Self -- Genealogies and Functions of Self-Reflexive Fiction -- (En)countering Sex in the Nationalist Canon -- Potentials and Pitfalls of National Language Literatures -- Orature and Deconstructed Folklore -- Politicized Palimpsests and Gendered Intertexts --Painted Metaphors : The Gendered Deployment of Visual Arts -- Refiguring (Out) Queer Sexualities -- Gendered Theoretical Recalibrations. 330 $aThe profound effects of colonialism and its legacies on African cultures have led postcolonial scholars of recent African literature to characterize contemporary African novels as, first and foremost, responses to colonial domination by the West. In Africa Writes Back to Self, Evan Maina Mwangi argues instead that the novels are primarily engaged in conversation with each other, particularly over emergent gender issues such as the representation of homosexuality and the disenfranchisement of women by male-dominated governments. He covers the work of canonical novelists Nadine Gordimer, Chinua Achebe, NguÅgiÅ wa Thiong'o, and J. M. Coetzee, as well as popular writers such as Grace Ogot, David Maillu, Promise Okekwe, and Rebeka Njau. Mwangi examines the novels' self-reflexive fictional strategies and their potential to refigure the dynamics of gender and sexuality in Africa and demote the West as the reference point for cultures of the Global South. 606 $aAfrican fiction (English)$xHistory and criticism 606 $aSelf in literature 606 $aSelf-perception in literature 606 $aSex role in literature 606 $aSex in literature 615 0$aAfrican fiction (English)$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aSelf in literature. 615 0$aSelf-perception in literature. 615 0$aSex role in literature. 615 0$aSex in literature. 676 $a823/.91409353 700 $aMwangi$b Evan$01603923 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910808483103321 996 $aAfrica writes back to self$94018213 997 $aUNINA