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The enormous success of writers such as Teju Cole and Chimamanda
Ngozi Adichie demonstrates that African literatures are now an
international phenomenon. But the apparent global legibility of a
small number of (mostly Anglophone) writers in the diaspora raises
the question of how literary producers from the continent, both
past and present, have situated their work in relation to the world
and the kinds of material networks to which this corresponds. This
collection shows how literatures from across the African continent
engage with conceptualizations of 'the world' in relation to local
social and political issues. Focusing on a wide variety of
geographic, historical and linguistic contexts, the essays in this
volume seek answers to the following questions: What are the
topographies of 'the world' in different literary texts and
traditions? What are that world's limits, boundaries and
possibilities? How do literary modes and forms such as realism,
narrative poetry or the political essay affect the presentation of
worldliness? What are the material networks of circulation that
allow African literatures to become world literature? African
literatures, it emerges, do important theoretical work that speaks
to the very core of world literary studies today.
PAPERBACK FOR SALE IN AFRICA ONLY Examines the ways in which space
and spatial structures have been constituted, contested and
re-imagined in Francophone and Anglophone West African literature
since the early 1950s. From the "imaginative geographies" of
conquest identified by Edward Said to the very real and material
institution of territorial borders, regions and geographical
amalgamations, the control, administration and integration of space
are known to have played a central and essential role in the
creation of contemporary "Africa". Space continues to be a site of
conflict, from separatist struggles to the distribution of
resources to the continued absorption ofAfrican territories into
the uneven geographies of global capitalism. In this book, Madhu
Krishnan examines the ways in which the anxieties and conflicts
engendered by these phenomena are registered in a broad set of
literarytexts from British and French West Africa. By placing these
novels in dialogue with a range of archival material such as
territorial planning documents, legislative papers, records of
liberation movements and development projects, this book reveals
the submerged articulations between spatial planning and literary
expression, generating new readings of canonical West African texts
as well as analyses of otherwise under-researched material.
MadhuKrishnan is a Senior Lecturer in 20th/21st Century
Postcolonial Writing in the Department of English at the University
of Bristol. She is author of Contemporary African Literature in
English: Global Locations, Postcolonial Identifications(2014) and
Contingent Canons: African Literature and the Politics of Location
(2018)
Winner of the 2020 ALA Book of the Year Award - Scholarship
Examines the ways in which space and spatial structures have been
constituted, contested and re-imagined in Francophone and
Anglophone West African literature since the early 1950s. From the
"imaginative geographies" of conquest identified by Edward Said to
the very real and material institution of territorial borders,
regions and geographical amalgamations, the control, administration
and integration of space are known to have played a central and
essential role in the creation of contemporary "Africa". Space
continues to be a site of conflict, from separatist struggles to
the distribution of resources to the continued absorption ofAfrican
territories into the uneven geographies of global capitalism. In
this book, Madhu Krishnan examines the ways in which the anxieties
and conflicts engendered by these phenomena are registered in a
broad set of literarytexts from British and French West Africa. By
placing these novels in dialogue with a range of archival material
such as territorial planning documents, legislative papers, records
of liberation movements and development projects, this book reveals
the submerged articulations between spatial planning and literary
expression, generating new readings of canonical West African texts
as well as analyses of otherwise under-researched material.
This Element explores the mechanisms through which 'African
literature', as a market category, has been consecrated within the
global literary field. Drawing on archival, textual and field-based
research, it proposes that the normative story of African literary
writing has functioned to efface a broader material history of
African literary production located on and oriented to the
continent itself.
Winner of the 2020 ALA Book of the Year Award - Scholarship
Examines the ways in which space and spatial structures have been
constituted, contested and re-imagined in Francophone and
Anglophone West African literature since the early 1950s. From the
"imaginative geographies" of conquest identified by Edward Said to
the very real and material institution of territorial borders,
regions and geographical amalgamations, the control, administration
and integration of space are known to have played a central and
essential role in the creation of contemporary "Africa". Space
continues to be a site of conflict, from separatist struggles to
the distribution of resources to the continued absorption ofAfrican
territories into the uneven geographies of global capitalism. In
this book, Madhu Krishnan examines the ways in which the anxieties
and conflicts engendered by these phenomena are registered in a
broad set of literarytexts from British and French West Africa. By
placing these novels in dialogue with a range of archival material
such as territorial planning documents, legislative papers, records
of liberation movements and development projects, this book reveals
the submerged articulations between spatial planning and literary
expression, generating new readings of canonical West African texts
as well as analyses of otherwise under-researched material.
MadhuKrishnan is a Senior Lecturer in 20th/21st Century
Postcolonial Writing in the Department of English at the University
of Bristol. She is author of Contemporary African Literature in
English: Global Locations, Postcolonial Identifications(2014) and
Contingent Canons: African Literature and the Politics of Location
(2018)
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