Mwangi Africa Writes Back to Self

Metafiction, Gender, Sexuality
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4384-2697-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 360 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Explores the metafictional strategies of contemporary African novels rather than characterizing them primarily as a response to colonialism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mwangi, Evan M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Afrikanische Literaturen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Writing Back to Self

1. Genealogies and Functions of Self-Reflexive Fiction

2. (En)countering Sex in the Nationalist Canon

3. Potentials and Pitfalls of National Language Literatures

4. Orature and Deconstructed Folklore

5. Politicized Palimpsests and Gendered Intertexts

6. Painted Metaphors: The Gendered Deployment of Visual Arts

7. Refiguring (Out) Queer Sexualities

8. Gendered Theoretical Recalibrations

Conclusion
Notes
Works Cited
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Evan Maina Mwangi is Assistant Professor of English at Northwestern University and the coauthor (with Simon Gikandi) of The Columbia Guide to East African Literature in English Since 1945.