In Search of the Afropolitan: Encounters, Conversations and Contemporary Diasporic African Literature - Couverture rigide

Knudsen, Eva Rask; Rahbek, Ulla

 
9781783483532: In Search of the Afropolitan: Encounters, Conversations and Contemporary Diasporic African Literature
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1783483539 ISBN 13 : 9781783483532
Editeur : Rowman & Littlefield, 2016

Synopsis

In Search of the Afropolitan explores human encounters and moments that speak to the challenges of being a 21st century African of the world. Against the background of an engaging evaluation of the heated debate on Afropolitanism and what constitutes an Afropolitan, the authors turn to literature and its intrinsic capacity for unfolding the human figure of the African as inherently complex and multidimensional. Through a detailed probing of the Afropolitan in literary narratives, the book enters into conversations about self-understanding and the signification of Africa in the contexts of global mobility.

The book conceives of Afropolitanism as a flexible space of inquiry that curbs the inclination to set the definition of the 'ism' in stone. Instead, it attempts to distil, through close-up character analyses, a multifarious sense of what it means to be Afropolitan in the contemporary moment. In that sense, the encounters we come across in the literary narratives produce unexpected ontological negotiations on what it means to be African in the world today. As a special feature of In Search of the Afropolitan,the authors' conversations with prominent writers, thinkers, and critics provide a lively context for the ongoing debate on Afropolitanism and the Afropolitan.

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À propos des auteurs

Eva Rask Knudsen is an Associate Professor of Postcolonial and Global Studies at the University of Copenhagen.

Ulla Rahbek is an Associate Professor of Postcolonial and Global Studies at the University of Copenhagen.

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Éditeur
Rowman & Littlefield
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1783483539
ISBN 13 
9781783483532
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
326
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9781783483549: In Search of the Afropolitan

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  1783483547 ISBN 13 :  9781783483549
Editeur : Rli, 2016
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