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

• Autore: Knudsen Eva Rask
• Pubblicazione: Lanham : , : Rowman & Littlefield International, , [2016]; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (327 pages)
• Disciplina: 820.996
• Soggetto topico: African literature (English) - 21st century - History and criticism; African diaspora in literature; Africans - Race identity; Group identity - Africa
• Persona (resp. second.): RahbekUlla
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: In search of the Afropolitan
• ISBN: 1-78348-354-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910798572703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II