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Author:

Knudsen, Eva Rask, author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91122751

Title:

In search of the Afropolitan : encounters, conversations and contemporary diasporic African literature / Eva Rask Knudsen and Ulla Rahbek.

Publisher:

Rowman & Littlefield International,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

vii, 317 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

African literature (English)--21st century--History and criticism.
African diaspora in literature.
Africans--Race identity.
Group identity--Africa.
African diaspora in literature.
African literature (English)
Africans--Race identity.
Group identity.
Africa.
2000-2099
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Other Authors:

Rahbek, Ulla, author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2016053510

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-312) and index.

Contents:

Opening: in search of the Afropolitan -- Afropolitanism: a contested field and its trajectories -- The authors in conversation with Simon Gikandi -- The vexed question of mobility -- Here, there, and elsewhere: the unhinging of home and belonging -- "Africans of the world" and the politics of (re-)connection -- The authors in conversation with Kwame Anthony Appiah, Minna Salami, Emma Dabiri, and Asta Busingye Lydersen -- The authors in conversation with Sefi Atta, Chika Unigwe, and Brian Chikwava -- Sharing and caring: storytelling and Afropolitan communities -- A complex weave: "race," gender, and Afropolitan love -- Less-fortunate Afropolitans, "lapsed Africans," and class conundrums -- A statement by Taiye Selasi -- Endnotes: Afropolitan narratives, tropes, and styles.

ISBN:

1783483547
9781783483549
1783483539
9781783483532

OCLC:

(OCoLC)958801430

LCCN:

2016018984

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)