Making Black History : : Diasporic Fiction in the Moment of Afropolitanism / / Dominique Haensell.
This study proposes that - rather than trying to discern the normative value of Afropolitanism as an identificatory concept, politics, ethics or aesthetics - Afropolitanism may be best approached as a distinct historical and cultural moment, that is, a certain historical constellation that allows us...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter,, [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Ser.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (VII, 245 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter I Introduction - Writing Race in the Moment of Afropolitanism
- Chapter II Going Through The Motions - Movement, Metahistory, and the Spectacle of Suffering in Teju Cole's Open City
- Chapter III (Post‐)Independent Women - Romance, Return, and Pan-African Feminism in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah
- Chapter IV A Painful Notion of Time - Conveying Black Temporality in Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing
- Chapter V Conclusion - The Past Is Always Tense, the Future Perfect
- Bibliography
- Index