Negotiating Afropolitanism [[electronic resource] ] : essays on borders and spaces in contemporary African literature and folklore / / edited by Jennifer Wawrzinek and J.K.S. Makokha
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| Titolo: |
Negotiating Afropolitanism [[electronic resource] ] : essays on borders and spaces in contemporary African literature and folklore / / edited by Jennifer Wawrzinek and J.K.S. Makokha
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| Pubblicazione: | Amsterdam ; ; New York, N.Y., : Rodopi, 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (360 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 809.93353 |
| Soggetto topico: | African literature - 20th century - History and criticism |
| Postcolonialism - Africa | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Africa Social conditions 20th century |
| Altri autori: |
WawrzinekJennifer
MakokhaJ. K. S
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Nota di contenuto: | pt. 1. Border crossings, precarity, syncretism -- pt. 2. Dissidence, absence, transgression -- pt. 3. Unhomeliness, diasporic narration, heterotopia -- pt. 4. Language, borders, spaces. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Negotiating Afropolitanism |
| ISBN: | 90-420-3223-5 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910827225003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; ; 146.