The facts at the heart of the matter : character and objectivity in the making of the Fante intelligentsia / Jeanne-Marie Jackson. 'African borders are unnatural' : Nairobi and the rise of a world literature / Bhakti Shringarpure -- Can Nairobi 'world' without the 'great Kenyan novel'? / Billy Kahora -- The problem with French and the world : imagining the province and the global in francophone African fiction / Sarah Arens -- The first Ethiopian novel in Amharic (1908) and the world : critical and theoretical legacies / Sara Marzagora -- The Kaiser, Angoche and the world at large : Swahili poetry from Mozambique as world (war) literature / Clarissa Vierke and Chapane Mutiua -- Early Sesotho, isiXhosa and isiZulu novels as world literature / Ashleigh Harris -- African multilingualism as an asset in world literature : a case against cultural conformity and uniformity / Munyao Kilolo -- New cartographies for world literary space : locating pan-African publishing and prizing / Zamda R. Geuza and Kate Wallis -- AkeĢ Festival and the African world stage / Lola Shoneyin -- Contemporary African literature and celebrity capital / Doseline Kiguru -- Reversing the global media lens : colonial spectacularization in the writing of Binyavanga Wainaina / Penny Cartwright -- The facts at the heart of the matter : character and objectivity in the making of the Fante intelligentsia / Jeanne-Marie Jackson.
Summary:
"A consideration of the theoretical, conceptual, and material connections between African literatures and "the world.""-- Provided by publisher.
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