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Author:

Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ, author.

Title:

The rise of the African novel : politics of language, identity, and ownership / Mukoma Wa Ngugi.

Publisher:

University of Michigan Press,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

228 pages ; 23 cm.

Subject:

African fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
African fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-216) and index.

Contents:

Introduction. Manufacturing the African novel : the Makerere writers and questions of language, identity, and ownership -- No shrubbing in the English metaphysical empire, please : a question of language -- Amos Tutuola : creating the African literary bogeyman -- Africa's missing literary history : from A.C. Jordan's Child of two worlds to Noviolet Bulawayo's fractured multiple worlds -- Manufacturing the African literary canon : costs and opportunities -- Toward a rooted transnational African literature : politics of image and naming.

Summary:

"The Rise of the African Novel is the first book to situate South African and African-language literature of the late 1880s through the early 1940s in relation to the literature of decolonization that spanned the 1950s through the 1980s, and the contemporary generation of established and emerging continental and diaspora African writers of international renown. Calling it a major crisis in African literary criticism, Mukoma Wa Ngugi considers key questions around the misreading of African literature: Why did Chinua Achebe's generation privilege African literature in English despite the early South African example? What are the costs of locating the start of Africa's literary tradition in the wrong literary and historical period? What does it mean for the current generation of writers and scholars of African literature not to have an imaginative consciousness of their literary past? While acknowledging the importance of Achebe's generation in the African literary tradition, Mukoma Wa Ngugi challenges that narrowing of the identities and languages of the African novel and writer. In restoring the missing foundational literary period to the African literary tradition, he shows how early South African literature, in both aesthetics and politics, is in conversation with the literature of the African independence era and contemporary rooted transnational literatures."--Publisher's description.

Series:

African perspectives

ISBN:

0472073680
9780472073689
047205368X
9780472053681

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1010585119

LCCN:

2017052925

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)