Buch, Englisch, Band 146, 372 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 706 g
Reihe: Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft
Essays on Borders and Spaces in Contemporary African Literature and Folklore
Buch, Englisch, Band 146, 372 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 706 g
Reihe: Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN: 978-90-420-3222-4
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi
Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Postkoloniale Geschichte, Nationale Befreiung und Unabhängigkeit
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kultursoziologie
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Afrikanische Literaturen
Weitere Infos & Material
Acknowledgements
Simon Gikandi: Foreword: On Afropolitanism
J. K. S. Makokha: Introduction: In the Spirit of Afropolitanism
Part I: Border Crossings, Precarity, Syncretism
Sim Kilosho Kabale: Afropolitanism and Erudition in Francophone African Novels, 1994 – 2000
Jens Frederic Elze-Volland: Precarity and Picaresque in Contemporary Nigerian Prose: An Exemplary Reading of Ben Okri’s The Famished Road
Sola Ogunbayo: Border-Crossing Through Myth-Making: The Unbarred Muse in Selected Nigerian Literature
Fella Benabed: Syncretic Worldviews in Wole Soyinka’s The Interpreters
Part II: Dissidence, Absence, Transgression
Catherine Kroll: Dogs and Dissidents at the Border: Narrative Outbreak in Patrice Nganang’s Temps de Chien
Jennifer Wawrzinek: Addressing the Absent Other in J. M. Coetzee’s Age of Iron
Phillip Rothwell: Nearly Ending the World the African Way: Pepetela’s Suspension of Capital’s Frontiers and Flows in
O Quase Fim do Mundo
John E. Masterson: A Post-mortem on the Postmodern? Conflict and Corporeality in Nuruddin Farah’s Links
Russell West-Pavlov: Sociology/Matriology in Maghreb Writing: Space and Feminine Transgression in Fanon’s Sociologie d’une révolution and Chraibi’s La Civilisation, ma mere!
Part III: Unhomeliness, Diasporic Narration, Heterotopia
Emilia Ilieva and Lennox Odiemo-Munara: Negotiating Dislocated Identities in the Space of Post-Colonial Chaos: Goretti Kyomuhendo’s Waiting
Nalini Iyer: No Place to Call Home: Citizenship and Belonging in M. G. Vassanji’s The In-Between World of Vikram Lall
Remmy Shiundu Barasa and J. K. S. Makokha: Weaving Exilic Narratives: Homodiegetic Narration and Postcolonial Translocation in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Admiring Silence
Maria Jesus Cabarcos Traseira: Between Diasporic Identity and Agency: Versions of the Pastoral in Gurnah’s Pilgrims Way and Mahjoub’s Navigation of a Rainmaker
Godwin Siundu: Locating Cultural Ambivalence and Afropolitanism: Nairobi and Dar-es-Salaam as Heterotopia in the Fiction of Dawood and Vassanji
Part IV: Language, Borders, Spaces
Mikhail Gromov: Across the Language Border: The Case of Bilingual Writers in Tanzania
Alina N. Rinkanya: Sheng Literature in Kenya: Socio-Linguistic Borders and Spaces in Popular Poetry
Mbugua wa Mungai: “Na Hawa Watu Lazima Wakuwe Serious!: FM Radio Spaces and Folkloric Performance of Cosmopolitan Identities in Kenya
Michael Wainaina: Empire Speaks Back: Authenticity, Folk Voices and Re-Presentation of Across in Gikuyu Radio Narratives
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