Africa writing Europe : : opposition, juxtaposition, entanglement / / edited by Maria Olaussen and Christina Angelfors.
Africa Writing Europe offers critical readings of the meaning and presence of Europe in a variety of African literary texts. The first of its kind, it shifts the focus from questions of African identity to readings which delineate ideas of Europe also in texts written specifically in an African cont...
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| Superior document: | Cross/cultures, 105 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cross/cultures ;
105. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (311 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- “On these premises I am the government”: Njabulo Ndebele’s The Cry of Winnie Mandela and the Reconstructions of Gender and Nation / Dorothy Driver
- “A deeper silence”: Dan Jacobson’s Lithuania / Geoffrey V. Davis
- “A language to fit Africa”: ‘Africanness’ and ‘Europeanness’ in the South African Imagination / Gabeba Baderoon
- Morountodun by Femi Osofisan: Marxism, Feminism, and an African Dramatist’s Engagement with an Indigenous Heroic Narrative / Wumi Raji
- Europe Discarded: Ken Bugul and the Twenty-Eighth Wife of a Marabout / Jarmo Pikkujämsä
- “France, effaced but venerated”: Marie Cardinal’s Au pays de mes racines / Ann–Sofie Persson
- From Heterotopia to Home: The University and the Politics of Postcoloniality in Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North and Leila Aboulela’s The Translator / Alexandra W. Schultheis
- Refusing to Speak as a Victim: Agency and the arrivant in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Novel By the Sea / Maria Olaussen
- Refugee(s) Writing: Displacement in Contemporary Narratives of Forced Migration / Jopi Nyman
- Notes on Contributors and Editors
- Index.