Afropolitanism and the Novel: De-realizing Africa: Literary Cultures of the Global South
Autor Ashleigh Harrisen Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 aug 2019
This book extends this debate, arguing that Africa’s ‘de-realization’ in global representation and the global economy is reflected in the African novel becoming dominated by Afropolitan, rather than African, aesthetics, styles, and forms. Drawing on close readings of a variety of major African novels of the 2000s, the volume traces the tensions between the novel’s complicity with and resistance to such de-realization. The book argues that current trends and experiments in African non-realist genres, such as science fiction, magical and animist realism, Afro-futurism, and speculative environmentalism, are the result of a preoccupation with such de-realization.
The volume is a significant exploration into literary form and its social, philosophical, political, and economic underpinnings. It will be a must-read for scholars, students, and researchers of African literature, politics, philosophy, and culture studies.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780367235512
ISBN-10: 036723551X
Pagini: 210
Ilustrații: 6 Halftones, black and white; 6 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge India
Seria Literary Cultures of the Global South
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 036723551X
Pagini: 210
Ilustrații: 6 Halftones, black and white; 6 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge India
Seria Literary Cultures of the Global South
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Public țintă
PostgraduateCuprins
Introduction: De-realization and the African Novel Part I: Afropolitanism and Literary Legitimacy 1. De-realizing Literary Form and Style Part II: De-Realization and the Aesthetics of Irrealism 2. Dissociation and Africa in the World 3. Street Lives and the Limits of Hustling 4. Detective Fictions in Submerged and Suspended Landscapes 5. Mutants and Contaminants in Afro-Futurist Irrealism Conclusion: Towards a Sustainable African Literary Future
Notă biografică
Ashleigh Harris is Associate Professor of English at Uppsala University, Sweden. She has published widely on Zimbabwean and South African literature. Harris is currently leading the ‘African Street Literature and the Future of Literary Form’ research project at Uppsala University, which collects, archives, and analyses sub-Saharan literary forms that are produced and circulated outside of the formal publishing industry. Harris is also a participant in the ‘Cosmopolitan and Vernacular Dynamics in World Literature’ research project, based at Stockholm University.
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This book extends this debate, arguing that Africa’s ‘de-realization’ in global representation and the global economy is reflected in the African novel becoming dominated by Afropolitan, rather than African, aesthetics, styles and forms. It eplores the literary form and its social, philosophical, political and economic underpinnings.