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portada African Literature in the World
Type
Physical Book
Language
English
Pages
350
Format
Hardcover
ISBN13
9781009555098

African Literature in the World

Gikandi, Simon (Author) · Cambridge University Press · Hardcover

African Literature in the World - Gikandi, Simon

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Synopsis "African Literature in the World"

In African Literature in the World, Simon Gikandi asks: Why do debates on language continue to inform and haunt African writing? What happened when writing replaced orality as the primary form of creative expression? When, how, and why did the novel come to occupy such a dominant role in African literary history? This is a comprehensive study of the histories and theories of African literature in the twentieth century and shows how African writers adopted and transformed the English language and its traditions to account for African identities and experiences. Concerned with writing and reading as forms of mediation, Gikandi provides examples of how imaginative works shaped the public sphere in Africa in relation to decolonization and the politics of language. He explores how the emergence of a modern tradition of African writing has generated new forms of criticism in relation to the form of the novel, modernity, and modernism.

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