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In Search of the Afropolitan - Encounters, Conversations and Contemporary Diasporic African Literature (Hardcover)
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In Search of the Afropolitan - Encounters, Conversations and Contemporary Diasporic African Literature (Hardcover)
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In Search of the Afropolitan explores human encounters and moments
that speak to the challenges of being a 21st century African of the
world. Against the background of an engaging evaluation of the
heated debate on Afropolitanism and what constitutes an
Afropolitan, the authors turn to literature and its intrinsic
capacity for unfolding the human figure of the African as
inherently complex and multidimensional. Through a detailed probing
of the Afropolitan in literary narratives, the book enters into
conversations about self-understanding and the signification of
Africa in the contexts of global mobility. The book conceives of
Afropolitanism as a flexible space of inquiry that curbs the
inclination to set the definition of the 'ism' in stone. Instead,
it attempts to distil, through close-up character analyses, a
multifarious sense of what it means to be Afropolitan in the
contemporary moment. In that sense, the encounters we come across
in the literary narratives produce unexpected ontological
negotiations on what it means to be African in the world today. As
a special feature of In Search of the Afropolitan, the authors'
conversations with prominent writers, thinkers, and critics provide
a lively context for the ongoing debate on Afropolitanism and the
Afropolitan.
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