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Author:

Crowley, Dustin, 1982- author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2015011839

Title:

Africa's narrative geographies : charting the intersections of geocriticism and postcolonial studies / Dustin Crowley.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

x, 192 pages ; 23 cm.

Subject:

African literature--20th century--History and criticism.
African literature--21st century--History and criticism.
African literature (English)--History and criticism.
African literature (French)--History and criticism.
Place (Philosophy) in literature.
Africa--In literature.
Postcolonialism--Africa.
Geocriticism.
African literature.
African literature (English)
African literature (French)
Geocriticism.
Literature.
Place (Philosophy) in literature.
Postcolonialism.
Africa.
1900 - 2099
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction. Charting a path for geocriticism -- My Black land : Senghor's construction of Africa -- Place and scale in Ngugi's universal garden -- Imagining the global village : Bessie Head's narratives of migration and boundaries -- Cosmopolitan Somalia : place and identity in Farah's Maps and Links -- Half slum, half paradise : Abani's global cities -- Conclusion. The landscape of geocritical inquiry : finding common ground for geocriticism and ecocriticism.

Series:

Geocriticism and spatial literary studies

ISBN:

1137522755
9781137522757

OCLC:

(OCoLC)907127173

LCCN:

2015002539

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)