Afropolitanism and the Novel (Paperback)
 
作者: Ashleigh Harris 
分類: Literary theory ,
Literary studies: post-colonial literature ,
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers ,
Regional geography ,
Africa  
書城編號: 1558384


售價: $518.00

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出版社: Taylor & Francis
出版日期: 2019/08/27
尺寸: 235x159x19mm
重量: 0.3 kg
ISBN: 9780367235512

商品簡介


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.

Ashleigh Harris 作者作品表

Afropolitanism and the Novel (Paperback)

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