Screen LibraryAfrican literatures as world literature /
"A consideration of the theoretical, conceptual, and material connections between African literatures and "the world.""--
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Bloomsbury Academic,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | 2023. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Literatures as world literature
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| Summary: |
"A consideration of the theoretical, conceptual, and material connections between African literatures and "the world.""-- |
| Carrier Form: | xiii, 268 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781501379956 150137995X 9781501379994 1501379992 |
| Index Number: | PL8010 |
| CLC: | I400.6 |
| Call Number: | I400.6/A258-1 |
| Contents: |
Introduction: African literatures and the problem of 'the world' / 'African borders are unnatural' : Nairobi and the rise of a world literature / Can Nairobi 'world' without the 'great Kenyan novel'? / The problem with French and the world : imagining the province and the global in francophone African fiction / The first Ethiopian novel in Amharic (1908) and the world : critical and theoretical legacies / The Kaiser, Angoche and the world at large : Swahili poetry from Mozambique as world (war) literature / Early Sesotho, isiXhosa and isiZulu novels as world literature / African multilingualism as an asset in world literature : a case against cultural conformity and uniformity / New cartographies for world literary space : locating pan-African publishing and prizing / Aké Festival and the African world stage / Contemporary African literature and celebrity capital / Reversing the global media lens : colonial spectacularization in the writing of Binyavanga Wainaina / The facts at the heart of the matter : character and objectivity in the making of the Fante intelligentsia / |