The book offers an overview of Eastern African writing in English since the mid-twentieth century. It shows how proximate modes of literary communication, arising out of residual but vibrant traditions of oral communication, blend with contemporary media to produce hybrid genres of proximity specific to Eastern African literary production.
The book offers an overview of Eastern African writing in English since the mid-twentieth century. It shows how proximate modes of literary communication, arising out of residual but vibrant traditions of oral communication, blend with contemporary media to produce hybrid genres of proximity specific to Eastern African literary production.
Russell West-Pavlov is Professor of Anglophone Literatures at the University of Tübingen and a Research Associate in the English Department at the University of Pretoria. He completed doctorates and a post-doc degree at Cambridge, Lille, and Cologne and his recent publications include Temporalities (Routledge, 2013) and The Global South and Literature (2018). He is co-convenor of a DAAD-funded international research network Literary Cultures of the Global South.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: Towards an Aesthetics of proximity Part 1: Territories 1: Coast 2: Land 3: Cities Part 2: Histories 4: Precolonial Histories 5: Colonial Histories 6: Postcolonial Histories Part 3: Communities 7: Gender 8: Migratory Identities 9: Eastern Africa in the Global South Conclusion: Eastern African Literary Futures
Introduction: Towards an Aesthetics of proximity Part 1: Territories 1: Coast 2: Land 3: Cities Part 2: Histories 4: Precolonial Histories 5: Colonial Histories 6: Postcolonial Histories Part 3: Communities 7: Gender 8: Migratory Identities 9: Eastern Africa in the Global South Conclusion: Eastern African Literary Futures
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