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At Penpoint
- African Literatures, Postcolonial Studies, and the Cold War
Engelsk Paperback
At Penpoint
- African Literatures, Postcolonial Studies, and the Cold War
Engelsk Paperback

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In At Penpoint Monica Popescu traces the development of African literature during the second half of the twentieth century to address the intertwined effects of the Cold War and decolonization on literary history. Popescu draws on archival materials from the Soviet-sponsored Afro-Asian Writers Association and the CIA-funded Congress for Cultural Freedom alongside considerations of canonical literary works by Ayi Kwei Armah, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Ousmane Sembene, Pepetela, Nadine Gordimer, and others. She outlines how the tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union played out in the aesthetic and political debates among African writers and intellectuals. These writers decolonized aesthetic canons even as superpowers attempted to shape African cultural production in ways that would advance their ideological and geopolitical goals. Placing African literature at the crossroads of postcolonial theory and studies of the Cold War, Popescu provides a new reassessment of African literature, aesthetics, and knowledge production.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
277
ISBN-13:
9781478009405
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1478009403
Udg. Dato:
4 sep 2020
Længde:
24mm
Bredde:
228mm
Højde:
153mm
Forlag:
Duke University Press
Oplagsdato:
4 sep 2020
Forfatter(e):
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