Contemporary African Literature in English explores the contours of representation in contemporary Anglophone African literature, drawing on a wide range of authors including Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Aminatta Forna, Brian Chikwava, Ngug? wa Thiong'o, Nuruddin Farah and Chris Abani.
Format: HardbackCONTRIBUTORS: M. KrishnanEAN: 9781137378323COUNTRY: United KingdomPAGES: WEIGHT: 3943 gHEIGHT: 216 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Palgrave MacmillanDATE PUBLISHED: 2014-03-20CITY: GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / African, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, SOCIAL SCIENCE / GeneralWIDTH: 140 cmSPINE:
Book Themes:
20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Literary theory, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
"Scholars of contemporary anglophone African fiction will be grateful to Madhu Krishnan for balancing close readings of a number of significant texts with careful attention to their conditions of publication and reception. Krishnan illuminates both the ethical and aesthetic concerns of important world writers and the conditions under which works marked as 'African' enter the world." - Andrew van der Vlies, Queen Mary University of London, UK
'...it address abroad range of issues and questions which shape the way that Africa is performed on a global stage, thus, highlighting the contradictions and continuities of transnational literary production.' - Pan African Studies
Madhu Krishnan is Lecturer in 20th and 21st century Postcolonial Writing at the University of Bristol, UK. Her research considers the construction and dissemination of a transnational idea of Africa in contemporary African writing, with particular interests in representation, space and transnationality. She has published numerous articles on African literatures and postcolonial studies in journals including ARIEL, Research in African Literatures, CLIO and Journal of Commonwealth Literature.
Contemporary African Literature in English explores the contours of representation in contemporary Anglophone African literature, drawing on a wide range of authors including Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Aminatta Forna, Brian Chikwava, Ngug? wa Thiong'o, Nuruddin Farah and Chris Abani.
Format: HardbackCONTRIBUTORS: M. KrishnanEAN: 9781137378323COUNTRY: United KingdomPAGES: WEIGHT: 3943 gHEIGHT: 216 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Palgrave MacmillanDATE PUBLISHED: 2014-03-20CITY: GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / African, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, SOCIAL SCIENCE / GeneralWIDTH: 140 cmSPINE:
Book Themes:
20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Literary theory, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
Madhu Krishnan is Lecturer in 20th and 21st century Postcolonial Writing at the University of Bristol, UK. Her research considers the construction and dissemination of a transnational idea of Africa in contemporary African writing, with particular interests in representation, space and transnationality. She has published numerous articles on African literatures and postcolonial studies in journals including ARIEL, Research in African Literatures, CLIO and Journal of Commonwealth Literature.
