Routledge Handbook of African Literature.
Adejunmobi, Moradewun.
Routledge Handbook of African Literature. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (477 pages)
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of contributors -- 1. Introduction -- Mapping Political Agencies -- Journeys, Geographies, Identities -- Working through Genres -- The World of and beyond Humans -- Everyday Sociality -- Bodies, Subjectivities, Affect -- Literary Networks -- Critical junctures -- Notes -- References -- PART I: Mapping Political Agencies -- 2. 'Children of the Cold War': Rethinking African literary generations through the global conflict -- Notes -- References -- 3. Ethics and the politics of the ordinary in African literature -- Literature, the ordinary and ethics -- The ordinary as the political -- Recognition and care as contours of everyday agency -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 4. Globalisation, mobility and labour in African diasporic fiction -- Funding acknowledgement -- Notes -- References -- 5. Towards an ethics of the humanitarian imagination -- Notes -- Works cited -- PART II: Journeys, Geographies, Identities -- 6. Decolonising the Afropolitan: Intra-African migrations in post-2000 literature -- Introduction: re-framing the 'migrant novel' -- Pluriversal migration narratives -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 7. History, imperial eyes and the 'mutual gaze': Narratives of African-Chinese encounters in recent literary works -- Representing otherness: the postcolonial and the Global South -- Recent literary narratives of Africa-China encounter -- Femi Osofisan's adaptation of Thunderstorm -- Yan Geling's travelogue in Nigeria -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 8. Ethnicity in post-2000 African writing -- Notes -- References -- 9. Mythopoesis of the self: Nation, textuality and the writer as political hero -- Introduction -- Fractures, revisions and counter-discourse in the making of identity -- Narrating the nation: Soyinka's life writings. Mythos and the self: Wole Soyinka, 'the perpetual dramatist … in every drama of his own manufacture' -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- PART III: Working through Genres -- 10. How to be a writer in your 30s in Lagos: Self-help literature and the creation of authority in Africa -- The history of self-help literature in Africa -- 'Problem-solving texts': self-help literature and social change -- Creating new readerly selves by making progress -- Self-help literature and the creation of authority -- Note -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 11. Gothic supernaturalism in the 'African imagination': Locating an emerging form -- Gothic: fear, enlightenment and the supernatural -- Situating gothic in the African imagination -- The gothic prism?: verticality as a strategic relation -- Postcolonial gothic - and beyond -- Gothic as a situated feminist strategy -- Why now? Gothic aetiologies of Africa's millennial present -- Notes -- References -- 12. Contested filial voice in African female-authored autobiographies -- Introduction -- Reading methods and modes of re-membering filiation in African (women's) autobiographies -- The filial voice's contestation and re-invention of history in El Saadawi's autobiographies -- The filial voice's contestation of cultural and religious hegemony in Ali's autobiographies -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 13. 'I can't go forward -- I must go back': Ben Okri's (p)anachronistic utopias -- The utopian spectrum -- From cloud city to white walkers -- 'How can I turn from Arcadia and live?' -- Europe on the margins -- Notes -- Works cited -- PART IV: The World of and beyond Humans -- 14. African literature, audience and the search for the (non)human -- Conclusion: African literature, the critic, and the greater meaning -- Notes -- References -- Filmography -- 15. Dirty ecology: African women and the ethics of cultivation. I. -- II. -- III. -- Notes -- References -- 16. African fictions, animal figures and anthropocentric frameworks -- Introduction -- Framing African animals: African oratures and cultural debates -- 'The autobiographical animal': the story of the nonhuman in Alain Mabanckou's Memoirs of a Porcupine -- Wildness and civilization: the African body in the imperial center in Buchi Emecheta's Second-Class Citizen -- Notes on the finitude of lives: Njabulo Ndebele and the vulnerability of flesh -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 17. Depictions of Kenyan lands and landscapes by four women writers -- Notes -- References -- PART V: Everyday Sociality -- 18. Geopolitical and global topologies in fiction: Islam at the fault lines in Africa and the world -- Local and global topologies: Islam in Africa -- Africa in the world -- Established and emergent fictions on Islam: topologies over time -- Works cited -- 19. Appetite and everyday life in African literature -- Notes -- References -- 20. 'Foundational fictions': Variations of the marriage plot in Flora Nwapa's early Anglophone-Igbo novels -- Plotting marriage: Anglophone-Igbo approaches -- Amadi's The Concubine and the embedded love-marriage plot -- The marriage-procreation plot in Nwapa's Efuru and Idu -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 21. Drinking scenes: Alcohol in the Francophone African novel -- Notes -- References -- PART VI: Bodies, Subjectivities, Affect -- 22. Desire and freedom in Yvonne Vera's fiction -- Exiles from the future -- What is freedom to me? Nostalgia for the future -- Note -- Works cited -- 23. The forms of shame and African literature -- Shame as form -- African literature and its shames -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 24. Scattered testimony: Locating the Rwandan genocide in transnational witnessing -- Introduction. Reading the genocide through acts of displaced witnessing -- Addressing violent histories in transnational belonging: Binyavanga Wainaina's (2003) 'Discovering Home' -- The meanings of silence: Yvonne Owuor's (2003) 'Weight of Whispers' -- Drama on a silent screen: Billy Kahora's (2010) 'The Gorilla's Apprentice' -- Displacing empathetic witnessing -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgement -- References -- 25. Contestations through same-sex desire in Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi's Kintu -- Introduction -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgement -- Works Cited -- PART VII: Literary Networks -- 26. The Story Club: African literary networks offline -- African literary clubs and networks -- Shadreck Chikoti: the face of the Story Club's networks -- Face-to-face meetings and live crowdfunding -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 27. Language and prizes: Exploring literary and cultural boundaries -- African literature and the awards industry -- Language and literary awards -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works cited -- 28. Publishers' networks and the making of African literature: Locating communities of readers and writers -- Publishers' networks and African literary production -- Launching Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus in Nigeria -- Launching Binyavanga Wainaina's One Day I Will Write About This Place in Kenya -- Disjunctures and intersections -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 29. Literary networks in the Horn of Africa: Oromo and Amharic intellectual histories -- Scholarship on Ethiopian and African literature -- Studying literary networks: theory and methodology -- Ethiopia: historical background -- Amharic and Oromo literary networks in the late nineteenth and twentieth century -- Notes -- References -- Index.
The Routledge Handbook of African Literature is a one-stop publication bringing together studies of African literary texts that embody an array of newer approaches applied to a wide range of works.
9781351859387
African literature-21st century-History and criticism.
Electronic books.
PL8010 .R688 2019
820.996
Routledge Handbook of African Literature. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (477 pages)
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of contributors -- 1. Introduction -- Mapping Political Agencies -- Journeys, Geographies, Identities -- Working through Genres -- The World of and beyond Humans -- Everyday Sociality -- Bodies, Subjectivities, Affect -- Literary Networks -- Critical junctures -- Notes -- References -- PART I: Mapping Political Agencies -- 2. 'Children of the Cold War': Rethinking African literary generations through the global conflict -- Notes -- References -- 3. Ethics and the politics of the ordinary in African literature -- Literature, the ordinary and ethics -- The ordinary as the political -- Recognition and care as contours of everyday agency -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 4. Globalisation, mobility and labour in African diasporic fiction -- Funding acknowledgement -- Notes -- References -- 5. Towards an ethics of the humanitarian imagination -- Notes -- Works cited -- PART II: Journeys, Geographies, Identities -- 6. Decolonising the Afropolitan: Intra-African migrations in post-2000 literature -- Introduction: re-framing the 'migrant novel' -- Pluriversal migration narratives -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 7. History, imperial eyes and the 'mutual gaze': Narratives of African-Chinese encounters in recent literary works -- Representing otherness: the postcolonial and the Global South -- Recent literary narratives of Africa-China encounter -- Femi Osofisan's adaptation of Thunderstorm -- Yan Geling's travelogue in Nigeria -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 8. Ethnicity in post-2000 African writing -- Notes -- References -- 9. Mythopoesis of the self: Nation, textuality and the writer as political hero -- Introduction -- Fractures, revisions and counter-discourse in the making of identity -- Narrating the nation: Soyinka's life writings. Mythos and the self: Wole Soyinka, 'the perpetual dramatist … in every drama of his own manufacture' -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- PART III: Working through Genres -- 10. How to be a writer in your 30s in Lagos: Self-help literature and the creation of authority in Africa -- The history of self-help literature in Africa -- 'Problem-solving texts': self-help literature and social change -- Creating new readerly selves by making progress -- Self-help literature and the creation of authority -- Note -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 11. Gothic supernaturalism in the 'African imagination': Locating an emerging form -- Gothic: fear, enlightenment and the supernatural -- Situating gothic in the African imagination -- The gothic prism?: verticality as a strategic relation -- Postcolonial gothic - and beyond -- Gothic as a situated feminist strategy -- Why now? Gothic aetiologies of Africa's millennial present -- Notes -- References -- 12. Contested filial voice in African female-authored autobiographies -- Introduction -- Reading methods and modes of re-membering filiation in African (women's) autobiographies -- The filial voice's contestation and re-invention of history in El Saadawi's autobiographies -- The filial voice's contestation of cultural and religious hegemony in Ali's autobiographies -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 13. 'I can't go forward -- I must go back': Ben Okri's (p)anachronistic utopias -- The utopian spectrum -- From cloud city to white walkers -- 'How can I turn from Arcadia and live?' -- Europe on the margins -- Notes -- Works cited -- PART IV: The World of and beyond Humans -- 14. African literature, audience and the search for the (non)human -- Conclusion: African literature, the critic, and the greater meaning -- Notes -- References -- Filmography -- 15. Dirty ecology: African women and the ethics of cultivation. I. -- II. -- III. -- Notes -- References -- 16. African fictions, animal figures and anthropocentric frameworks -- Introduction -- Framing African animals: African oratures and cultural debates -- 'The autobiographical animal': the story of the nonhuman in Alain Mabanckou's Memoirs of a Porcupine -- Wildness and civilization: the African body in the imperial center in Buchi Emecheta's Second-Class Citizen -- Notes on the finitude of lives: Njabulo Ndebele and the vulnerability of flesh -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 17. Depictions of Kenyan lands and landscapes by four women writers -- Notes -- References -- PART V: Everyday Sociality -- 18. Geopolitical and global topologies in fiction: Islam at the fault lines in Africa and the world -- Local and global topologies: Islam in Africa -- Africa in the world -- Established and emergent fictions on Islam: topologies over time -- Works cited -- 19. Appetite and everyday life in African literature -- Notes -- References -- 20. 'Foundational fictions': Variations of the marriage plot in Flora Nwapa's early Anglophone-Igbo novels -- Plotting marriage: Anglophone-Igbo approaches -- Amadi's The Concubine and the embedded love-marriage plot -- The marriage-procreation plot in Nwapa's Efuru and Idu -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 21. Drinking scenes: Alcohol in the Francophone African novel -- Notes -- References -- PART VI: Bodies, Subjectivities, Affect -- 22. Desire and freedom in Yvonne Vera's fiction -- Exiles from the future -- What is freedom to me? Nostalgia for the future -- Note -- Works cited -- 23. The forms of shame and African literature -- Shame as form -- African literature and its shames -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 24. Scattered testimony: Locating the Rwandan genocide in transnational witnessing -- Introduction. Reading the genocide through acts of displaced witnessing -- Addressing violent histories in transnational belonging: Binyavanga Wainaina's (2003) 'Discovering Home' -- The meanings of silence: Yvonne Owuor's (2003) 'Weight of Whispers' -- Drama on a silent screen: Billy Kahora's (2010) 'The Gorilla's Apprentice' -- Displacing empathetic witnessing -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgement -- References -- 25. Contestations through same-sex desire in Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi's Kintu -- Introduction -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgement -- Works Cited -- PART VII: Literary Networks -- 26. The Story Club: African literary networks offline -- African literary clubs and networks -- Shadreck Chikoti: the face of the Story Club's networks -- Face-to-face meetings and live crowdfunding -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 27. Language and prizes: Exploring literary and cultural boundaries -- African literature and the awards industry -- Language and literary awards -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works cited -- 28. Publishers' networks and the making of African literature: Locating communities of readers and writers -- Publishers' networks and African literary production -- Launching Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus in Nigeria -- Launching Binyavanga Wainaina's One Day I Will Write About This Place in Kenya -- Disjunctures and intersections -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 29. Literary networks in the Horn of Africa: Oromo and Amharic intellectual histories -- Scholarship on Ethiopian and African literature -- Studying literary networks: theory and methodology -- Ethiopia: historical background -- Amharic and Oromo literary networks in the late nineteenth and twentieth century -- Notes -- References -- Index.
The Routledge Handbook of African Literature is a one-stop publication bringing together studies of African literary texts that embody an array of newer approaches applied to a wide range of works.
9781351859387
African literature-21st century-History and criticism.
Electronic books.
PL8010 .R688 2019
820.996