The Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures series offers
stimulating and accessible introductions to definitive topics and
key genres and regions within the rapidly diversifying field of
postcolonial literary studies in English. This volume offers an
overview of contemporary Eastern African writing in English since
the mid-twentieth century. It takes a fresh look at what has been
an under-represented regional literary tradition within what
continues to be an under-represented continental literary
tradition. In particular, it broadens the scope of such an
overview, complementing the extant monographs on well-known Eastern
African writers such as Ngugi to include a host of more recent,
less-publicized novelists, dramatists, and poets. It extends the
geographical range of existing studies from the familiar triad of
Kenyan, Ugandan, and Tanzanian traditions of writing in English, to
include the lesser-known Somali, Ethiopian, or Sudanese, or
Mauritian or Madagascan traditions. Rather than simply addressing
national traditions or broad thematic bundles, the volume treats
works as literatures of a region: that is, as literatures of place
and space. Eastern African Literatures stresses the formative role
of space, place and geography in fashioning the fabric of social
interaction, whether individual or collective, in generating
history, in moulding identities, and as a consequence in defining
the shape of the future. The 'spatial' perspectives allow the
'proximate' rather than the 'distant' influence of literary art to
come into view. Proximate modes of literary communication, arising
out of residual but vibrant traditions of oral communication, blend
with contemporary media to produce hybrid genres of proximity
specific to Eastern African literary production. In this way, the
book also makes a contribution to the ongoing theorization of
literary and cultural innovation in the cultures of the Global
South.
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