At Penpoint - African Literatures, Postcolonial Studies, and the Cold War (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Duke University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Theory in Forms
Release date:	September 2020
First published:	2020
Authors:	Monica Popescu
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	272
ISBN-13:	978-1-4780-0851-4
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
LSN:	1-4780-0851-2
Barcode:	9781478008514

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