Información General

• Autores: Jennifer Wawrzinek (ed. lit.), J.K.S. Makokha (ed. lit.)
• Editores: Rodopi
• Año de publicación: 2011
• Colecciones: Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, 146
• País: Países Bajos
• Idioma: español
• ISBN: 978-90-420-3222-4
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Resumen

• Negotiating Afropolitanism brings together scholars in African studies from across the world in order to critically examine the representations, transgressions, disruptions, and/or redrawings of borders and spaces in contemporary African literature, culture and folklore. The essays collected here offer innovative and fresh critical perspectives on postcolonial themes within contemporary Africa. Individually they investigate such themes as identity, diaspora, hybridity, translation, the space between, textual frontiers, translocation and multilocalities, migration, nomadology, polylingualism, and multiculturalism. Together they map the rich terrain of culture, literature and folklore in contemporary Africa, from the works of writers such as Idris Chraibi, Wole Soyinka, Ben Okri, E. B. Dongala, Calixthe Beyala, Patrice Nganang, Nuruddin Farah and Abdulrazak Gurnah, to those of Pepetela, Goretti Kyomuhendo, Jamal Mahjoub, Yusuf Dawood, M. G. Vassanji, and J. M. Coetzee, as well as Afrophone oral artists and radio performers. This volume will be of interest to anyone with an interest in African studies, postcolonialism, cultural and literary studies.

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Listado de artículos

• • On Afropolitanism

    Simon Gikandi

    págs. 9-11

    

  • In the Spirit of Afropolitanism

    J.K.S. Makokha

    págs. 13-22

    

  • Border Crossings, Precarity, Syncretism

    • Afropolitanism and Erudition in Francophone African Novels, 1994-2000

      Sim Kilosho Kabale

      págs. 25-45

      

    • Precarity and Picaresque in Contemporary Nigerian Prose: an exemplary Reading of Ben Okri's The Famished Road

      Jens Frederic Elze-Volland

      págs. 47-60

      

    • Border-Crossing through Myth-Making: the Unbarred Muse in Selected Nigerian Literature

      Sola Ogunbayo

      págs. 61-73

      

    • Syncretic Worldviews in Wole Soyinka's The Interpreters

      Fella Benabed

      págs. 75-86

      

  • Dissdence, Absence, Transgression

    • Dogs and Dissedents at the Border: Narrative Outbreak in Patrice Nganang's Temps de Chien

      Catherine Kroll

      págs. 89-111

      

    • Addressing the Absent Other in J.M. Coetzee's Age of Iron

      Jennifer Wawrzinek

      págs. 113-128

      

    • Nearly Ending the World the Adrican Way: Papetela's Suspension of Capital's Frontiers and Flows in O Quase Fim do Mundo

      Philip Rothwell

      págs. 129-140

      

    • A Post-mortem on the Postmodern?: Conflict and Corporeality in Nuruddin Farah's Links

      John E. Masterson

      págs. 141-162

      

    • Socioligy/Matriology in Maghreb Writing: Space and Feminine Transgression in Fanon's Sociologie d'une révolution and Chraibi's La Civilisation, ma mere!

      Russell West-Pavlov

      págs. 163-180

      

  • Unhomeliness, Diasporic Narration, Heterotopia

    • Negotiating Dislocated Identities in the Space of Post-Colonial Chaos: Goretti Kyomuhendo's Waiting

      Emilia Ilieva, Lennox Odiemo-Munara

      págs. 183-203

      

    • No Place to Call Home: Citizenship and Belonging in M. G. Vassanji's The In-Between World of Vkram Lall

      Nalini Iyer

      págs. 205-214

      

    • Weaving Exilic Narratives: Homodiegetic Narration and Postcolonial Translocation in Abdulrazak Gurnah's Admiring Silence

      Remmy Shiundu Barasa, J.K.S. Makokha

      págs. 215-234

      

    • Between Diasporic Identity and Agency: Versions of the Pastoral in Gurnah's Pilgrims Way and Mahjoub's Navigation of a Rainmaker

      María J. Cabarcos-Traseira

      págs. 235-258

      

    • Locating Cultural Ambivalence and Afropolitanism: Nairobi and Dar-es-Sallam as Heterotopia in the Fiction of Dawood and Vassanji

      Godwin Siundu

      págs. 259-280

      

  • Language, Borders, Spaces

    • Across the Language Border: The case of Bilingual Writers on Tanzania

      Mikhail Gromov

      págs. 283-291

      

    • Sheng Literature in Kenia: Socio-Linguistic Borders and Spaces in Popular Poetry

      Alina N. Rinkanya

      págs. 293-312

      

    • "Na Hawa Watu Lazima Wakuwe Serious!: FM Radio Spaces and Folkloric Performance of Cosmopolitan Identities in Kenya

      Mbugha Wa Mungai

      págs. 313-345

      

    • Empire Speaks Back: Authenticity, Folk Voices and Re-Presentation of Across in Gikuyu Radio Narratives

      Michael Wainaina

      págs. 347-366