Duncan M. Yoon (New York University)

China in Twentieth- And Twenty-First-Century African Literature

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is for students and scholars who want to know more about the cultural issues that emerge from globalization between Africa and China; it examines African literature according themes such as the Cold War, decolonization, geopolitics, resource extraction, diaspora, gender, and race.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in World Literature
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 556g
• ISBN-13: 9781009300278
• ISBN-10: 100930027X
• Artikelnr.: 67292490

Autorenporträt

Duncan M. Yoon is an assistant professor at New York University. He was a Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress and a Fulbright Scholar to South Korea. He chaired the forum, African Literature to 1990, at the Modern Language Association.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: African literary imaginaries of China
1. Kofi Awoonor imagines China: the Longue Durée of Ghana - PRC relations
2. Figures of extraction: representations of mining in Ghana and Zambia
3. Figures of risk: memoirs of a Chinese South African and a Cameroonian in China
4. Racialization and Afro-Chinese identity: Henri Lopès's Le lys et le flamboyant
Conclusion: forming Afro-Chinese worlds.