There is a new interest among publishers in New York and London in
books by writers of African origin. These authors have often grown
up or passed their early adult years out of Africa. The Orange
Prize for Fiction was awarded in London 2007 to Chimamanda Ngozie
Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun, and the Caine Prize for African
Writing has introduced new writers such as Leila Aboulela, Biyi
Bandele and Chimamanda Adichie herself to agents and publishers.
This examination of the extraordinary work which has recently
appeared is therefore very timely. Migration is a central theme of
much African fiction written in English. Here, Brenda Cooper tracks
the journeys undertaken by a new generation of African writers,
their protagonists and the solid objects that populate their
fiction, to depict the material realities of their multiple worlds
and languages. The book explores the uses to which the English
language is put in order to understand these worlds. It
demonstrates how these writers have contested the dominance of
colonising metaphors. The writers' challenge is to find an English
that can effectively express their many lives, languages and
identities. Brenda Cooper is Director of the Centre for African
Studies and a Professor in the Department of English Language and
Literature at the University of Cape Town.
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