Remapping African Literature

This book is an exploration of the material conditions of the production of African literature. Drawing on the archives of Heinemann's African Writers Series, it highlights the procedures, relationships, demands, ideologies, and counterpressures engendered by the publication of three major auth...

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Main Author: Ibironke, Olabode (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Series:African Histories and Modernities
Subjects:
African literature.
Africa-History.
Books-History.
Literature .
Literature, Modern-20th century.
Fiction.
ISBN:9783319692968
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Commonwealth Impresario
  • 2. The Literary Scramble for Africa: Selection and The practice of Hierarchies
  • 3. The Seeds of the Series: Chinua Achebe and the Educational Publisher
  • 4. Wole Soyinka: The Pan-African Literary Practice
  • 5. Ngugi: Language, Publics, and Production
  • 6. Postcolonialism: Dialectic of Autonomy and Determinism
  • Conclusion.

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