African literatures as world literature:

Introduction: African literatures and the problem of 'the world' /Alex Fyfe and Madhu Khrishnan --'African borders are unnatural': Nairobi and the rise of a world literature /Bhakti Shringarpure --Can Nairobi 'world' without the 'great Kenyan novel'? /Billy Ka...

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Weitere Verfasser: Fyfe, Alexander (HerausgeberIn), Krishnan, Madhu 1981- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Bloomsbury Academic 2023
Schriftenreihe:Literatures as world literature
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Zusammenfassung:Introduction: African literatures and the problem of 'the world' /Alex Fyfe and Madhu Khrishnan --'African borders are unnatural': Nairobi and the rise of a world literature /Bhakti Shringarpure --Can Nairobi 'world' without the 'great Kenyan novel'? /Billy Kahora --The problem with French and the world: Imagining the province and the global in francophone African fiction /Sarah Arens --The first Ethiopian novel in Amharic (1908) and the world: Critical and theoretical legacies /Sara Marzagora --The Kaiser, Angoche and the world at large: Swahili poetry from Mozambique as world (war) literature /Clarissa Vierke and Chapane Mutiua --Early Sesotho, isiXhosa and isiZulu novels as world literature /Ashleigh Harris --African multilingualism as an asset in world literature: A case against cultural conformity and uniformity /Munyao Kilolo --New cartographies for world literary space: Locating pan-African publishing and prizing /Zamda R. Geuza and Kate Wallis --Aké Festival and the African world stage /Lola Shoneyin --Contemporary African literature and celebrity capital /Doseline Kiguru --Reversing the global media lens: Colonial spectacularization in the writing of Binyavanga Wainaina /Penelope Cartwright --The facts at the heart of the matter: Character and objectivity in the making of the Fante intelligentsia /Jeanne-Marie Jackson.
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:xiii, 268 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9781501379956