Postcolonial agency in African and diasporic literature and film : a study in globalectics / Lokangaka Losambe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Losambe, Lokangaka, author.

Contributor:

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Routledge African studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African literature--History and criticism.

African literature.

Motion pictures--Africa--History.

Motion pictures.

Africa.

History.

African diaspora in literature.

Postcolonialism--Africa.

Postcolonialism.

Postcolonialism in literature.

Postcolonialism in motion pictures.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xii, 192 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.

Summary:

"This book chronicles the rise and the development of postcolonial agency since Africa's encounter with Western modernity through African and African diaspora literature and film. Using African and African diasporic imaginaries (creative writings, autobiographies, polemical writings, and filmic media) the author shows how African subjects have resisted enslavement and colonial domination over the past centuries, and how they have sought to reshape "global modernity". Authors and film makers whose works are examined in detail include Olaudah Equiano, William Sheppard, Haile Gerima, Wole Soyinka, Dani Kouyaté, Chris Abani, Chimamanda Adichie, Leila Aboulela, Imbolo Mbue, Alain Mabanckou, Abdourahman Waberi, Marie NDiaye, and Fatou Diome. Providing a critical study of nativism, hybridity and post-hybrid conjunctive consciousness, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of African and African diasporic literature, history, and cultural studies"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

I. The Enslaved African and Postcolonial Agency

Olaudah Equiano's The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, The African, Written by Himself; Haile Gerima's Sankofa (film); Amma Asante's Belle (film)

II. The Black American Stranger and Postcolonial Agency in Africa: The Congo Narrative

The Anti-Enslavement/-Colonial Activist: George Washington Williams (1849-1891)

The Postcolonial Pragmatist: William Henry Sheppard (1865-1927)

The Other Allies

III. Articulations of Postcolonial Agency in Contemporary African Literature

The Colonial Encounter and Postcolonial Agency in Wole Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman and Dani Kouyaté's Keita! L'éritage du Griot (Film)

Postcolonial Conjunctive Consciousness in the Literature of the New African Diaspora: Chris Abani's The Virgin of Flames, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah, Leila Aboulela's The Translator

CODA: Francis Abiola Irele and the African Imagination.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-185) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Losambe, Lokangaka. Postcolonial agency in African and diasporic literature and film

ISBN:

9781032190891

1032190892

0367336383

9780367336387

OCLC:

1263864846