Contingent Canons
Contingent Canons
African Literature and the Politics of Location
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This Element explores the mechanisms through which 'African literature', as a market category, has been consecrated within the global literary field. Drawing on archival, textual and field-based research, it proposes that the normative story of African literary writing has functioned to efface a broader material history of African literary production located on and oriented to the continent itself.
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'… [Madhu Krishnan] makes a compelling argument for expanding and also questioning the dominant perspective of literary and book studies on canonization and African literature.' Dorit Neumann, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität
Product details
November 2018Paperback
9781108445375
75 pages
180 × 122 × 6 mm
0.12kg
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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Publishing Africa on a global scale
- 2. Contemporary canons
- 3. Alternative landscapes
- Bibliography.
