{"product_id":"african-literatures-as-world-literature-paperback","title":"African Literatures as World Literature - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlexander Fyfe\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eThomas Oliver Beebee\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eMadhu Krishnan\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe enormous success of writers such as Teju Cole and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie demonstrates that African literatures are now an international phenomenon. But the apparent global legibility of a small number of (mostly Anglophone) writers in the diaspora raises the question of how literary producers from the continent, both past and present, have situated their work in relation to the world and the kinds of material networks to which this corresponds. This collection shows how literatures from across the African continent engage with conceptualizations of 'the world' in relation to local social and political issues. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFocusing on a wide variety of geographic, historical and linguistic contexts, the essays in this volume seek answers to the following questions: What are the topographies of 'the world' in different literary texts and traditions? What are that world's limits, boundaries and possibilities? How do literary modes and forms such as realism, narrative poetry or the political essay affect the presentation of worldliness? What are the material networks of circulation that allow African literatures to become world literature? African literatures, it emerges, do important theoretical work that speaks to the very core of world literary studies today.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlexander Fyfe \u003c\/b\u003eis Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and African Studies at the University of Georgia. His articles have appeared in Interventions: \u003ci\u003eInternational Journal of Postcolonial Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Research in African Literatures, and Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e, among other venues. He has guest-edited special issues of \u003ci\u003eAfrican Identities\u003c\/i\u003e and (with Rosemary Jolly)\u003ci\u003e The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMadhu Krishnan \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of African, World and Comparative Literatures in the Department of English at the University of Bristol, UK. She is author of three books: \u003ci\u003eContemporary African Literature in English: Global Locations, Postcolonial Identifications\u003c\/i\u003e (2014), \u003ci\u003eWriting Spatiality in West Africa: Colonial Legacies in the Anglophone\/Francophone Novel \u003c\/i\u003e(2018); and \u003ci\u003eContingent Canons: African Literature and the Politics of Location\u003c\/i\u003e (2018).\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 284\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 27, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45589601648742,"sku":"9781501379994","price":83.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/oiZOopAOP29781501379994.webp?v=1778017926","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/african-literatures-as-world-literature-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}