Routledge handbook of African literature / edited by Moradewun Adejunmobi and Carli Coetzee.
| Other author | Adejunmobi, Moradewun, 1959- |
| Other author | Coetzee, Carli. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019. |
| Description | 1 online resource. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction / Moradewun Adejunmobi and Carli Coetzee -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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. |
| General note | Includes index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Routledge handbook of African literature Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019 9781138713864 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2018050654 |
| ISBN | 9781315229546 (Ebook) |
| ISBN | 9781351859387 (Adobe Reader) |
| ISBN | 9781351859370 ( Epub) |
| ISBN | 9781351859363 (Mobipocket) |
| ISBN | (hardback) |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | ✔ Available |