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African Literatures as World Literature (Hardcover)
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African Literatures as World Literature (Hardcover)
Series: Literatures as World Literature
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The enormous success of writers such as Teju Cole and Chimamanda
Ngozi Adichie demonstrates that African literatures are now an
international phenomenon. But the apparent global legibility of a
small number of (mostly Anglophone) writers in the diaspora raises
the question of how literary producers from the continent, both
past and present, have situated their work in relation to the world
and the kinds of material networks to which this corresponds. This
collection shows how literatures from across the African continent
engage with conceptualizations of 'the world' in relation to local
social and political issues. Focusing on a wide variety of
geographic, historical and linguistic contexts, the essays in this
volume seek answers to the following questions: What are the
topographies of 'the world' in different literary texts and
traditions? What are that world's limits, boundaries and
possibilities? How do literary modes and forms such as realism,
narrative poetry or the political essay affect the presentation of
worldliness? What are the material networks of circulation that
allow African literatures to become world literature? African
literatures, it emerges, do important theoretical work that speaks
to the very core of world literary studies today.
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