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Title Negotiating Afropolitanism : essays on borders and spaces in contemporary African literature and folklore / edited by Jennifer Wawrzinek and J.K.S. Makokha.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; New York, N.Y. : Rodopi, 2011.

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Description 1 online resource (371 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 146
Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 146.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents pt. 1. Border crossings, precarity, syncretism -- pt. 2. Dissidence, absence, transgression -- pt. 3. Unhomeliness, diasporic narration, heterotopia -- pt. 4. Language, borders, spaces.
Summary 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, a.
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Subject African literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
African literature.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Postcolonialism -- Africa.
Postcolonialism.
Africa.
Africa -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Social conditions.
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Added Author Wawrzinek, Jennifer.
Makokha, J. K. S.
Other Form: 9789042032224
9789042032231
ISBN 9789042032231 (e-book)
9042032235 (e-book)
9042032227 (hardback)
9789042032224 (hardback)
9789042032224