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African Literatures as World Literature

Av Alexander Fyfe, Madhu Krishnan

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The enormous success of writers such as Teju Cole and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie demonstrates that African literatures are now an international phenomenon. But the apparent global legibility of a small number of (mostly Anglophone) writers in the diaspora raises the question of how literary producers from the continent, both past and present, have situated their work in relation to the world and the kinds of material networks to which this corresponds. This collection shows how literatures from across the African continent engage with conceptualizations of 'the world' in relation to local social and political issues. Focusing on a wide variety of geographic, historical and linguistic contexts, the essays in this volume seek answers to the following questions: What are the topographies of 'the world' in different literary texts and traditions? What are that world’s limits, boundaries and possibilities? How do literary modes and forms such as realism, narrative poetry or the political essay affect the presentation of worldliness? What are the material networks of circulation that allow African literatures to become world literature? African literatures, it emerges, do important theoretical work that speaks to the very core of world literary studies today.
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Alexander Fyfe is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and African Studies at the University of Georgia. His articles have appeared in Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Research in African Literatures, and Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, among other venues. He has guest-edited special issues of African Identities and (with Rosemary Jolly) The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry.Madhu Krishnan is Professor of African, World and Comparative Literatures in the Department of English at the University of Bristol, UK. She is author of three books: Contemporary African Literature in English: Global Locations, Postcolonial Identifications (2014), Writing Spatiality in West Africa: Colonial Legacies in the Anglophone/Francophone Novel (2018); and Contingent Canons: African Literature and the Politics of Location (2018).

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One of the achievements of this volume is presenting and naming global inequalities and power asymmetries in the creative, distribution, and circulation processes of literature itself, as well as in the academic visibility of certain literatures … Read together, the contributions in this anthology provide more than valuable impetus for overcoming global inequality in the field of literature.

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