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A New Generation of African Writers - Migration, Material Culture and Language (Paperback)
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A New Generation of African Writers - Migration, Material Culture and Language (Paperback)
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Brenda Cooper examines the work of the new generation of African
writers who have placed migration as central to their writing There
is a growing interest 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
Africanwriters, their protagonists and the solid objects that
populate their fiction, to depict the material realities of their
multiple worlds and languages. She explores the uses to which the
English language is put in order to understand these worlds and
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 was for many years Director of the Centre
for African Studies and Professor in the English department at the
University of Cape Town, where she is now an Emeritus Professor. In
2009 she moved to Salford, where she is an Honorary Research
Associate at the University of Manchester. She has published widely
on African fiction and postcolonial literary theory. Southern
Africa (South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Lesotho and Swaziland):
University of KwaZulu-Natal Press
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