Negotiating Afropolitanism: Essays on Borders and Spaces in Contemporary African Literature and Folklore
Negotiating Afropolitanism
Jennifer Wawrzinek, J.K.S. Makokha (Hg.) – 2011
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, and multiculturalism. Together they map the rich terrain of culture, literature and folklore in contemporary Africa, from the works of writers such as Idris Chraibi, Wole Soyinka, Ben Okri, E. B. Dongala, Calixthe Beyala, Patrice Nganang, Nuruddin Farah and Abdulrazak Gurnah, to those of Pepetela, Goretti Kyomuhendo, Jamal Mahjoub, Yusuf Dawood, M. G. Vassanji, and J. M. Coetzee, as well as Afrophone oral artists and radio performers. This volume will be of interest to anyone with an interest in African studies, postcolonialism, cultural and literary studies.
Jennifer Wawrzinek und J.K.S. Makokha haben für die Herausgabe den Past President's Bronze Book Award 2013 der Association for Borderland Studies erhalten.
Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Simon Gikandi: Foreword: On Afropolitanism J. K. S. Makokha: Introduction: In the Spirit of Afropolitanism
Part I: Border Crossings, Precarity, Syncretism Sim Kilosho Kabale: Afropolitanism and Erudition in Francophone African Novels, 1994 – 2000 Jens Frederic Elze-Volland: Precarity and Picaresque in Contemporary Nigerian Prose: An Exemplary Reading of Ben Okri’s The Famished Road Sola Ogunbayo: Border-Crossing Through Myth-Making: The Unbarred Muse in Selected Nigerian Literature Fella Benabed: Syncretic Worldviews in Wole Soyinka’s The Interpreters Part II: Dissidence, Absence, Transgression Catherine Kroll: Dogs and Dissidents at the Border: Narrative Outbreak in Patrice Nganang’s Temps de Chien Jennifer Wawrzinek: Addressing the Absent Other in J. M. Coetzee’s Age of Iron Phillip Rothwell: Nearly Ending the World the African Way: Pepetela’s Suspension of Capital’s Frontiers and Flows in O Quase Fim do Mundo John E. Masterson: A Post-mortem on the Postmodern? Conflict and Corporeality in Nuruddin Farah’s Links Russell West-Pavlov: Sociology/Matriology in Maghreb Writing: Space and Feminine Transgression in Fanon’s Sociologie d’une révolution and Chraibi’s La Civilisation, ma mere! Part III: Unhomeliness, Diasporic Narration, Heterotopia Emilia Ilieva and Lennox Odiemo-Munara: Negotiating Dislocated Identities in the Space of Post-Colonial Chaos: Goretti Kyomuhendo’s Waiting Nalini Iyer: No Place to Call Home: Citizenship and Belonging in M. G. Vassanji’s The In-Between World of Vikram Lall Remmy Shiundu Barasa and J. K. S. Makokha: Weaving Exilic Narratives: Homodiegetic Narration and Postcolonial Translocation in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Admiring Silence Maria Jesus Cabarcos Traseira: Between Diasporic Identity and Agency: Versions of the Pastoral in Gurnah’s Pilgrims Way and Mahjoub’s Navigation of a Rainmaker Godwin Siundu: Locating Cultural Ambivalence and Afropolitanism: Nairobi and Dar-es-Salaam as Heterotopia in the Fiction of Dawood and Vassanji Part IV: Language, Borders, Spaces Mikhail Gromov: Across the Language Border: The Case of Bilingual Writers in Tanzania