The Granta book of the African short story / edited and with and introduction by Helon Habila.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Habila, Helon, 1967-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Africa--21st century--Fiction.

Africa.

Africa--Social life and customs--21st century--Fiction.

Manners and customs.

Genre:

Fiction.

Short stories, African.

Physical Description:

xv, 378 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Granta Books, 2011.

Summary:

The Granta Book of the African Short Story introduces a group of African writers described by its editor, Helon Habila, as 'the post-nationalist generation'. Presenting a diverse and dazzling collection from all over the continent - from Morocco to Zimbabwe, Uganda to Kenya - Habila has focused on younger, newer writers, contrasted with some of their older, more established peers, to give a fascinating picture of a new and more liberated Africa.

Disdaining the narrowly nationalist and political preoccupations of previous generations, these writers are characterized by their engagement with the wider world. Their work has been shaped by the opportunities offered by the internet, the end of apartheid, the end of civil wars and dictatorships, and the possibilities of free movement around the wider world. Many of them now live outside Africa.

They are liberated, global and expansive. As Dambudzo Marechera wrote: 'If you're a writer for a specific nation or specific race, then f

Contents:

The arrangers of marriage / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Faeries of the Nile / Mansoura Ez-Eldin

Stickfighting days / Olufemi Terry

Dancing to the jazz goblin and his rhythm / Brian Chikwava

Promenade / Henrietta Rose-Innes

An Ex-mas feast / Uwem Akpan

Ships in high transit / Binyavanga Wainaina

The moustached man / Patrice Nganang

A good soldier / Maaza Mengiste

Préférence nationale / Fatou Diome

Homecoming / Laila Lalami

Street of the house of wonders / Rachida el-Charni

Bumsters / E. C. Osondu

Passion / Doreen Baingana

The fugitive / Alain Mabanckou

Haywards Heath / Aminatta Forna

Missing out / Leila Aboulela

Why don't you carve other animals / Yvonne Vera

The centre of the world / George Makana Clark

Propaganda by monuments / Ivan Vladislavić

Mme Zitta Mendès, a last image / Alaa Al Aswany

An unexpected death / Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa

The homecoming / Milly Jafta

Oxford, black Oxford / Dambudzo Marechera

You can't get lost in Cape Town / Zoë Wicomb

Cages / Abdulrazak Gurnah

The last bordello / Manuel Rui

The eyes of the statue / Camara Laye

Slipper satin / Alex La Guma.

ISBN:

1847084133

9781847082473

1847082475

OCLC:

738374524

Publisher Number:

99952260700

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