Buch, Englisch, Band 105, 278 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 635 g
Reihe: Cross/Cultures
Opposition, Juxtaposition, Entanglement
Buch, Englisch, Band 105, 278 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 635 g
Reihe: Cross/Cultures
ISBN: 978-90-420-2593-6
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi
The readings engage with the legacy of white domination manifested as slavery, colonialism, and apartheid as well as with the entangled histories and new perspectives developed through exile, both as voluntary and as forced migration. Several essays address the gendered dimension of the Africa–Europe opposition and relate it to other intersecting oppositions, such as the rural and the urban, the private and the public, in their analysis of representations of femininity and masculinity in the literary texts.
The contributors to this volume come from different national backgrounds and share in examining the question of Europe in African literature. Authors discussed include Leila Aboulela, Tatamkhulu Afrika, Alice Solomon Bowen, Ken Bugul, Marie Cardinal, Eric Ngalle Charles, Yvette Christiansë, Soleïman Adel Guémar, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Dan Jacobson, Njabulo Ndebele, Femi Osofisan, Rebekah F., and Tayeb Salih.
Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Afrikanische Literaturen
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Acknowledgements
Maria Olaussen: Africa Writing Europe. An Introduction
Dorothy Driver: “On these premises I am the government”. Njabulo Ndebele’s The Cry of Winnie Mandela and the Reconstructions of Gender and Nation
Geoffrey V. Davis: “A deeper silence”. Dan Jacobson’s Lithuania
Gabeba Baderoon: “A Language to Fit Africa”. ‘Africanness’ and ‘Europeanness’ in the South African Imagination
Wumi Raji: Morountodun by Femi Osofisan. Marxism, Feminism, and an African Dramatist’s Engagement with an Indigenous Heroic Narrative
Jarmo Pikkujämsä: Europe Discarded. Ken Bugul and the Twenty-Eighth Wife of a Marabout
Ann-Sofie Persson: “France, effaced but venerated”. Marie Cardinal’s Au pays de mes racines
Alexandra W. Schultheis: From Heterotopia to Home. The University and the Politics of Postcoloniality in Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North and Leila Aboulela’s The Translator
Maria Olaussen: Refusing to Speak as a Victim. Agency and the arrivant in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Novel By the Sea
Jopi Nyman: Refugee(s) Writing. Displacement in Contemporary Narratives of Forced Migration
Notes on Contributors and Editors
Index