Annotation. Africa Writing Europe offers critical readings of the meaning and presence of Europe in a variety of African literary texts. The first of its kind, it shifts the focus from questions of African identity to readings which delineate ideas of Europe also in texts written specifically in an African context.
Audience
Scholarly & Professional Rodopi.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Africa writing Europe / Maria Olaussen -- "On these premises I am the government" / Dorothy Driver -- "A deeper silence" / Geoffrey V. Davis -- "A language to fit Africa" / Gabeba Baderon -- Morountodun by Femi Osofisan / Wumi Raji -- Europe discarded / Jarmo Pikkujamsa -- "France, effaced but venerated" / Ann-Sofie Persson -- From heterotopia to home / Alexandra W. Schultheis -- Refusing to speak as a victim / Maria Olaussen -- Refugee writing / Jopi Nyman.
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