British and African literature in transnational context / Simon Lewis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lewis, Simon, 1960-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African literature (English)--History and criticism.

African literature (English).

English literature--20th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

Postcolonialism--Africa--History--20th century.

Imperialism in literature.

British--Africa.

British.

Postcolonialism.

History.

Africa.

Physical Description:

ix, 257 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2011]

Summary:

Looking at African and Afro-British, British, and Anglo-African literature of the 40 years of the decolonization process after World War II, Lewis (English, College of Charleston) analyzes not just the transnational literary inter-connectedness of colonizer and colonized, but also the fluidity and variability of colonial, anti-colonial, and post-colonial discourse. He has chosen texts--some canonical and others not--to offer dialectical interpretations of nation, race, ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Postcolonial geographies: the spatial shuttling of indigenes and immigrants. From Igboland to the east end: recasting African identity from Olaudah Equiano to Buchi Emecheta

"The house I live in ... a language which barks and scorns at me behind every corner"

Colonial histories: class, gender, sexuality, and racial violence in Anglo-African writing. Silence of the Askaris: William Boyd's An ice-cream war and the European history of the First World War in East Africa

Raids on the inarticulate: Alan Hollinghurst's The swimming-pool library and the closets of imperial and postimperial British history

Sacrifice, ritual, and canonical violence in the British-African drama of T.S. Eliot, Caryl Churchill, and Wole Soyinka

Mayibuye iAfrika: reconstituting African nationalism in the new transnational south. Embodying Black ways of being in the world in the spatialized historiography of postApartheid literature

Shades of feminist nationalism in recent Zimbabwean and South African fiction.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780813036021

081303602X

OCLC:

666240017