03807cam a22002778i 45000010009000000050017000090080041000260100017000670200029000840200026001130400032001390420008001710430012001790500021001910820016002122450098002282630009003263000013003355000020003485052844003686500061032126500061032737000043033347000029033777760123034062070744320230715140528.0181015s2019    nyu           001 0 eng c  a  2018049132  a9781138713864 (hardback)  a9781315229546 (ebook)  aIEN/DLCbengerdacIENdDLC  apcc  af------00aPR 9340.R68 201904a820.99622300aRoutledge handbook of African literature /cedited by Moradewun Adejunmobi and Carli Coetzee.  a1903  apages cm  aIncludes index.00tIntroduction /rMoradewun Adejunmobi and Carli Coetzee --gMapping political agencies --tChildren of the Cold War: rethinking African literary generations through the global conflict /rMonica Popescu --tEthics and the politics of the ordinary in African literature /rChielozona Eze --tGlobalisation, mobility and labour in diasporic African fiction /rAnna-Leena Toivanen --tTowards an ethics of the humanitarian imagination /rAllison Mackey --gJourneys, geographies, identities --tDecolonising the Afropolitan: intra-African migrations in post-2000 literature /rRebecca Fasselt --tHistory, imperial eyes and the "mutual gaze": narratives of African-Chinese encounters in recent literary works /rYing Cheng --tEthnicity in post-2000 African writing /rAgogho Akpome --tMythopoesis of the self: nation, textuality and writer as political hero /rRotimi Fasan --gWorking through genre --tHow to be a writer in your 30s in Lagos: self-help literature and the creation of authority in Africa /rRebecca Jones --tGothic supernaturalism in the "African imagination": locating an emerging form /rRebecca Duncan --tContested filial voice in African female-authored autobiographies /rMarciana Were --t"I can't go forward, I must go back:" Ben Okri's (p)anachronistic utopias /rIan MacDonald --gThe world of and beyond humans --tAfrican literature, audience, and the search for the (non)human /rCajetan Iheka --tDirty ecology: African women and the ethics of cultivation /rSarah Lincoln --tAfrican fictions, animal figures, and anthropocentric frameworks /rJesse Arsenault --tDepictions of Kenyan lands and landscapes by four women writers /rNg'ang'a Muchiri --gEveryday sociality --tGeopolitical and global topologies in fiction: Islam at the fault lines and the world /rShirin Edwin --tAppetite and everyday life in African literature /rDelores B Phillips --tFoundational fictions: variations of the marriage plot in Flora Nwapa's early anglophone-Igbo novels /rFiona Moolla --tDrinking scenes: alcohol in the francophone African novel /rPim Higginson --gBodies, subjectivities, affect --tDesire and freedom in Yvonne Vera's fiction /rGrace Musila --tThe forms of shame and African literature /rNaminata Diabate --tScattered testimony: locating the Rwandan genocide in transnational witnessing /rMartina Kopf --tContestations through same-sex desire in Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi's Kintu /rEdgar Nabutanyi --gLiterary networks --tThe story club: literary networks offline /rStephanie Bosch Santana --tLanguages and prizes: expanding literary boundaries /rDoseline Kiguru --tPublishers' networks and the making of 21st century African literature in English /rKate Wallis --tLiterary networks in the Horn of Africa: Oromo and Amharic intellectual histories /rSara Marzagora and Ayele Kebede. 0aAfrican literaturey21st centuryxHistory and criticism. 0aAfrican literaturey20th centuryxHistory and criticism.1 aAdejunmobi, Moradewun,d1959-eeditor.1 aCoetzee, Carli,eeditor.08iOnline version:tRoutledge handbook of African literaturedNew York : Routledge, 2019z9781315229546w(DLC) 2018050654