African Literature in Transition

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-1-009-66232-1
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 348 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 716 g

Reihe: African Literature in Transition

This book offers a compelling new approach to African literatures as formed by and itself a form of collective memory. It explores the historical spaces and maps that African literature brings to the surface and re-imagines in novel ways. The stories that matter about what happened in the past together constitute a collective memory that African writers and readers draw upon to locate themselves within the world. The book examines the mental maps that define the imaginative fields in which African literary texts have meaning. They provide answers to the questions that producers of texts must respond to: where stories are set, who writers write for, why writers write and how texts engage in meaning-making. It grapples with how writers imagine themselves contributing to a literary historiography and how readers get to understand the context within which texts are produced.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ogude, James

Kortenaar, Neil ten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Neil ten Kortenaar and James Ogude; Part I. Sources: 1. The Colonial Archive Neil ten Kortenaar; 2. Responding to Orality in Literature Senayon Olaoluwa; 3. The Idea of Africa: A Liberating Concept or a Western Imperialist Trope? Reginald M. J. Oduor; 4. African Responses to European Literature about Africa Julia Galmiche-Essue; 5. The Travelling Archive: The Discursive Knowledge Circuits of Transatlantic Africas Ronit Frenkel; Part II. Memories: 6. Black Antiquity Garnette Oluoch-Olunya; 7. Imagining Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade in the Works of African Writers Cheryl Sterling; 8. The Colonial Encounter David Attwell; 9. Arab Traces in Coastal Eastern Africa Tina Steiner; 10. Recalling colonialism in North Africa Oana Panaïté; 11. In the Name of God: Mission, Nation and the Postcolonial Condition Alexie Tcheuyap; 12. Aestheticizing and Archiving the Women's War of 1929 and the 1949 Women's March on the Grand-Bassam Prison Naminata Diabate; 13. Queer Pasts Brenna M. Munro; 14. Liberation Struggles Grace A. Musila; 15. The Archival Impulse in African Fictions of Civil Strife Chigbo Arthur Anyaduba; Part III. Maps: 16. Valleys of Strife: Geology as Archive in African Literature Robert Muponde; 17. Remembering the City: Lagos and National Time Femi Eromosele; 18. Migrant City: Mapping Literary Johannesburg across (Southern) Africa Rebecca Fasselt; 19. Algiers as a 'Realm' of Memory in Contemporary Algerian Postcolonial Literature of French-Expression Valérie K. Orlando; 20. Nairobi as an Archive of Literary Imagination James Ogude.