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Afropolitanism and the Novel - De-realizing Africa (Hardcover)
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Afropolitanism and the Novel - De-realizing Africa (Hardcover)
Series: Literary Cultures of the Global South
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The place of the novel as a literary form in Africa is contested.
Its colonial origins and its unaffordability for most Africans make
it a bad fit for the continent, yet it was also central to the
creation of most postcolonial African national literary canons.
These bipolar traditions remain unresolved in recent debates about
Afropolitanism and the novel in Africa today. This book extends
this debate, arguing that Africa's 'de-realization' in global
representation and the global economy is reflected in the African
novel becoming dominated by Afropolitan, rather than African,
aesthetics, styles, and forms. Drawing on close readings of a
variety of major African novels of the 2000s, the volume traces the
tensions between the novel's complicity with and resistance to such
de-realization. The book argues that current trends and experiments
in African non-realist genres, such as science fiction, magical and
animist realism, Afro-futurism, and speculative environmentalism,
are the result of a preoccupation with such de-realization. The
volume is a significant exploration into literary form and its
social, philosophical, political, and economic underpinnings. It
will be a must-read for scholars, students, and researchers of
African literature, politics, philosophy, and culture studies.
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