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Afropolitan literature as world literature / edited by James Hodapp.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Literatures as world literature.
- Literatures as world literature
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African literature (English)--History and criticism.
- African literature (English).
- Comparative literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 233 pages).
- Distribution:
- [London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
- Summary:
- "Explores the disparate creative works that are characterized as "Afropolitan literature," contextualizing them within the fundamental questions of world literature, such as translation, circulation, and cultural specificity while also examining Afropolitan ideology itself as a new African way of seeing and being."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Africa and the Rest / James Hodapp
- The Worlds of Afropolitan World Literature: Modeling Intra-African Afropolitanism in Yvonne Adhiambo Owuour's Dust / Birgit Neumann
- Strategic Label: Afropolitan Literature in Germany / Anna von Rath
- Afropolitanism and the Afro-Asian Diaspora in M. G. Vassanji's And Home Was Kariakoo / Shilpa Daithota Bhat
- "White Man's Magic": A. Igoni Barrett's Blackass, Afropolitanism, and (Post)Racial Anxieties / Julie Iromuanya
- Toward an Environmental Theory of Afropolitan Literature / Juan Meneses
- How Afropolitanism Unworlds the African World / Amatoritsero Ede
- Afropolitan Aesthetics as an Ethics of Openness / Chielozona Eze
- Fingering the Jagged Grain: Rereading Afropolitanism (and Africa) in Taiye Selasi's Ghana Must Go / Aretha Phiri
- "Part Returnee and Part-Tourist": The Afropolitan Travelogue in Noo Saro-Wiwa's Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria / Rocio Cobo-Pianero
- "Something covered but not hidden": Obscurity in Teju Cole's Oeuvre as an Afropolitan Way of Worlding / Julian Wacker
- The Hesitant Local: The Global Citizens of Open City and Americanah / Lara El Makkawi.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781501342615
- 1501342614
- 9781501342592
- 1501342592
- 9781501342608
- 1501342606
- OCLC:
- 1107148671
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