03977cam a22003258i 4500 20707443 20230715140528.0 181015s2019 nyu 001 0 eng c 2018049132 9781138713864 (hardback) 9781315229546 (ebook) IEN/DLC eng rda IEN DLC pcc f------ PR 9340.R68 2019 820.996 23 Routledge handbook of African literature / edited by Moradewun Adejunmobi and Carli Coetzee. 1903 pages cm Includes index. Introduction / Moradewun Adejunmobi and Carli Coetzee -- Mapping political agencies -- Children of the Cold War: rethinking African literary generations through the global conflict / Monica Popescu -- Ethics and the politics of the ordinary in African literature / Chielozona Eze -- Globalisation, mobility and labour in diasporic African fiction / Anna-Leena Toivanen -- Towards an ethics of the humanitarian imagination / Allison Mackey -- Journeys, geographies, identities -- Decolonising the Afropolitan: intra-African migrations in post-2000 literature / Rebecca Fasselt -- History, imperial eyes and the "mutual gaze": narratives of African-Chinese encounters in recent literary works / Ying Cheng -- Ethnicity in post-2000 African writing / Agogho Akpome -- Mythopoesis of the self: nation, textuality and writer as political hero / Rotimi Fasan -- Working through genre -- How to be a writer in your 30s in Lagos: self-help literature and the creation of authority in Africa / Rebecca Jones -- Gothic supernaturalism in the "African imagination": locating an emerging form / Rebecca Duncan -- Contested filial voice in African female-authored autobiographies / Marciana Were -- "I can't go forward, I must go back:" Ben Okri's (p)anachronistic utopias / Ian MacDonald -- The world of and beyond humans -- African literature, audience, and the search for the (non)human / Cajetan Iheka -- Dirty ecology: African women and the ethics of cultivation / Sarah Lincoln -- African fictions, animal figures, and anthropocentric frameworks / Jesse Arsenault -- Depictions of Kenyan lands and landscapes by four women writers / Ng'ang'a Muchiri -- Everyday sociality -- Geopolitical and global topologies in fiction: Islam at the fault lines and the world / Shirin Edwin -- Appetite and everyday life in African literature / Delores B Phillips -- Foundational fictions: variations of the marriage plot in Flora Nwapa's early anglophone-Igbo novels / Fiona Moolla -- Drinking scenes: alcohol in the francophone African novel / Pim Higginson -- Bodies, subjectivities, affect -- Desire and freedom in Yvonne Vera's fiction / Grace Musila -- The forms of shame and African literature / Naminata Diabate -- Scattered testimony: locating the Rwandan genocide in transnational witnessing / Martina Kopf -- Contestations through same-sex desire in Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi's Kintu / Edgar Nabutanyi -- Literary networks -- The story club: literary networks offline / Stephanie Bosch Santana -- Languages and prizes: expanding literary boundaries / Doseline Kiguru -- Publishers' networks and the making of 21st century African literature in English / Kate Wallis -- Literary networks in the Horn of Africa: Oromo and Amharic intellectual histories / Sara Marzagora and Ayele Kebede. African literature 21st century History and criticism. African literature 20th century History and criticism. Adejunmobi, Moradewun, 1959- editor. Coetzee, Carli, editor. Online version: Routledge handbook of African literature New York : Routledge, 2019 9781315229546 (DLC) 2018050654 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BOOKS PR 9340.R68 2019 31672 31672 0 0 lcc 0 0 MUC MUC GEN 2023-07-15 Donation (falcon books) 2 PR 9340.R68 2019 39434 2026-01-30 2026-01-12 2023-07-15 BOOKS