Eva Rask Knudsen, Ulla Rahbek

In Search of the Afropolitan

Encounters, Conversations and Contemporary Diasporic African Literature

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Produktbeschreibung

A dissemination of the figure of the 'Afropolitan' from a critical literary angle. It attempts to explore a field of study which lacks a comprehensive literary approach to ways of being Afropolitan in the 21st century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 326
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9781783483549
• ISBN-10: 1783483547
• Artikelnr.: 42811098

Autorenporträt

Eva Rask Knudsen is an Associate Professor of Postcolonial and Global Studies at the University of Copenhagen.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Opening: In Search of the Afropolitan
1. Afropolitanism: A Contested Field and its Trajectories
The Authors in Conversation with Simon Gikandi
2. The Vexed Question of Mobility
3. Here, There, and Elsewhere: The Unhinging of Home and Belonging
4. 'Africans of the World' and the Politics of (Re-)Connection
The Authors in Conversation with Kwame Anthony Appiah, Minna Salami, Emma Dabiri, and Asta Busingye Lydersen
The Authors in Conversation with Sefi Atta, Chika Unigwe, and Brian Chikwava
5. Sharing and Caring: Storytelling and Afropolitan Communities
6. A Complex Weave: 'Race,' Gender, and Afropolitan Love
7. Less-Fortunate Afropolitans, 'Lapsed Africans,' and Class Conundrums
A Statement by Taiye Selasi
Endnotes: Afropolitan Narratives, Tropes, and Styles
References
Index