Contingent Canons
African Literature and the Politics of Location
Part of Elements in Publishing and Book Culture
- Author: Madhu Krishnan, University of Bristol
- Date Published: November 2018
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108445375
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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
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- Date Published: November 2018
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108445375
- length: 75 pages
- dimensions: 180 x 122 x 6 mm
- weight: 0.12kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Publishing Africa on a global scale
2. Contemporary canons
3. Alternative landscapes
Bibliography.
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