Madhu Krishnan

Writing Spatiality in West Africa

Colonial Legacies in the Anglophone/Francophone Novel

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Produktbeschreibung

Winner of the 2020 ALA Book of the Year Award - Scholarship Examines the ways in which space and spatial structures have been constituted, contested and re-imagined in Francophone and Anglophone West African literature since the early 1950s.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
• Seitenzahl: 225
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9781847011909
• ISBN-10: 184701190X
• Artikelnr.: 54510485

Autorenporträt

Madhu Krishnan is Professor of African, World and Comparative Literatures. at the University of Bristol. She is author of Contemporary African Literature in English: Global Locations, Postcolonial Identifications (2014) and Contingent Canons: African Literature and the Politics of Location (2018).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Spatiality from Empire to Independence Post-independence
Disillusionment and Spatial Closures Social Space Beyond the Public Sphere:
Women's Writing and Contested Hegemonies Cosmopolitanism, Migration and
Neoliberalism in the Wake of Structural Adjustment Conclusion Bibliography