In At Penpoint Monica Popescu traces the development of African
literature during the second half of the twentieth century to
address the intertwined effects of the Cold War and decolonization
on literary history. Popescu draws on archival materials from the
Soviet-sponsored Afro-Asian Writers Association and the CIA-funded
Congress for Cultural Freedom alongside considerations of canonical
literary works by Ayi Kwei Armah, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Ousmane
Sembene, Pepetela, Nadine Gordimer, and others. She outlines how
the tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union played
out in the aesthetic and political debates among African writers
and intellectuals. These writers decolonized aesthetic canons even
as superpowers attempted to shape African cultural production in
ways that would advance their ideological and geopolitical goals.
Placing African literature at the crossroads of postcolonial theory
and studies of the Cold War, Popescu provides a new reassessment of
African literature, aesthetics, and knowledge production.
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