Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-252) and index.
Contents:
Postcolonial geographies : the spatial shuttling of indigenes and immigrants. From Igboland to the east end : recasting African identity from Olaudah Equiano to Buchi Emecheta -- The house I live in ... a language which barks and scorns at me behind every corner -- Colonial histories : class, gender, sexuality, and racial violence in Anglo-African writing. Silence of the Askaris : William Boyd's An ice-cream war and the European history of the First World War in East Africa -- Raids on the inarticulate : Alan Hollinghurst's The swimming-pool library and the closets of imperial and postimperial British history -- Sacrifice, ritual, and canonical violence in the British-African drama of T.S. Eliot, Caryl Churchill, and Wole Soyinka -- Mayibuye iAfrika : reconstituting African nationalism in the new transnational south. Embodying Black ways of being in the world in the spatialized historiography of postApartheid literature -- Shades of feminist nationalism in recent Zimbabwean and South African fiction.
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