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Afropolitanism and the Novel
- De-realizing Africa
Engelsk Paperback
Afropolitanism and the Novel
- De-realizing Africa
Engelsk Paperback

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The place of the novel as a literary form in Africa is contested. Its colonial origins and its unaffordability for most Africans make it a bad fit for the continent, yet it was also central to the creation of most postcolonial African national literary canons. These bipolar traditions remain unresolved in recent debates about Afropolitanism and the novel in Africa today.

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.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
198
ISBN-13:
9780367235512
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
036723551X
Udg. Dato:
27 aug 2019
Længde:
11mm
Bredde:
232mm
Højde:
156mm
Forlag:
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Oplagsdato:
27 aug 2019
Forfatter(e):
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