Harris Ashleigh
Harris Ashleigh - Afropolitanism And The Novel De - Realizing Africa - Paperback
Harris Ashleigh - Afropolitanism And The Novel De - Realizing Africa - Paperback
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Description: The place of the novel as a literary form in Africa is contested. Its colonial origins and its unaffordability for most Africans make it a bad fit for the continent yet it was also central to the creation of most postcolonial African national literary canons. These bipolar traditions remain unresolved in recent debates about Afropolitanism and the novel in Africa today. This book extends this debate arguing that Africa's de - realization in global representation and the global economy is reflected in the African novel becoming dominated by Afropolitan rather than African aesthetics styles and forms. Drawing on close readings of a variety of major African novels of the 2000s the volume traces the tensions between the novel's complicity with and resistance to such de - realization. The book argues that current trends and experiments in African non - realist genres such as science fiction magical and animist realism Afro - futurism and speculative environmentalism are the result of a preoccupation with such de - realization. The volume is a significant exploration into literary form and its social philosophical political and economic underpinnings. It will be a must - read for scholars students and researchers of African literature politics philosophy and culture studies.
Title: Afropolitanism And The Novel De - Realizing Africa
Author(s): Harris Ashleigh
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9780367235512
Pages: 198 Pages, 6 Halftones, Black And White; 6 Illustrations, Black And White
Publication Date: 8/27/2019
Series: Literary Cultures of the Global South
Category: Regional Geography
Description: The place of the novel as a literary form in Africa is contested. Its colonial origins and its unaffordability for most Africans make it a bad fit for the continent yet it was also central to the creation of most postcolonial African national literary canons. These bipolar traditions remain unresolved in recent debates about Afropolitanism and the novel in Africa today. This book extends this debate arguing that Africa's de - realization in global representation and the global economy is reflected in the African novel becoming dominated by Afropolitan rather than African aesthetics styles and forms. Drawing on close readings of a variety of major African novels of the 2000s the volume traces the tensions between the novel's complicity with and resistance to such de - realization. The book argues that current trends and experiments in African non - realist genres such as science fiction magical and animist realism Afro - futurism and speculative environmentalism are the result of a preoccupation with such de - realization. The volume is a significant exploration into literary form and its social philosophical political and economic underpinnings. It will be a must - read for scholars students and researchers of African literature politics philosophy and culture studies.
Title: Afropolitanism And The Novel De - Realizing Africa
Author(s): Harris Ashleigh
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9780367235512
Pages: 198 Pages, 6 Halftones, Black And White; 6 Illustrations, Black And White
Publication Date: 8/27/2019
Series: Literary Cultures of the Global South
Category: Regional Geography
