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Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
2 225 kr
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This volume revisits contemporary cultural and artistic imaginaries of African cities through a focus on their manifold connections with rural hinterlands. Tracing the multidimensional movements and flows between six African cities—Nairobi, Accra, Kampala, Pretoria/Tshwane, Johannesburg, and Lagos—and their respective hinterlands, the book maps similarities between contemporary city–hinterland interactions across the continent.The book brings together contributions by scholars from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, including literary studies, urban sociology, media studies, medical anthropology, cultural studies, visual arts, and ethnomusicology. It conceives of the relationship between the urban and the hinterland as non-dichotomous and makes an argument for the complex entanglements between African rural and urban cultural imaginaries. It also engages the historical specificities and complex afterlives of different colonial contexts that shape contemporary renegotiations of the rural–urban nexus. Here, the hinterland is offered as a concept with diverse uses and appropriations across a range of African cultural forms, from screen media and poetry to music, visual arts, and everyday cultural practices.This interdisciplinary collection will be of interest to postgraduate students, researchers, and academics in African studies, urban sociology, cultural studies, anthropology, literary studies, media studies, and human geography. It offers fresh perspectives on African urbanism and challenges conventional approaches to studying African cities by foregrounding cultural and artistic practices.The essays in this volume were originally published as a special issue of Social Dynamics.
Del 12 - Liverpool Studies in Health, Disability, Culture & Society
Mad Fictions
Psychiatry, Disability and the Politics of Mental Distress in African Literature
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
2 224 kr
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Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open intiative.Mad Fictions is the first book to place African literature in conversation with mad studies and disability studies, offering a groundbreaking reassessment of how madness is represented in African fiction. Challenging dominant readings that reduce madness to a metaphor for collective suffering, Femi Eromosele insists that it is both a site of personal distress and a locus for social justice discourse.The book argues that the simultaneous ubiquity and invisibility of madness in African literary scholarship stems from the dominance of nationalist frameworks in the production of political legibility. It explores the way African writers situate madness at the intersection of the individual and collective body, alternatively upholding and dissolving the boundaries between selfhood and national belonging. Throughout, it explores topics including:Psychiatric power and violence.The imbrication of madness and the nation.The political conditions for the emergence of a Mad discourse.The possibility of narrating a life in the grip of mental distress.The importance of Indigenous and psychiatric epistemologies.Eromosele pushes for an attentiveness to the links between reading practices and sites of exclusion embedded in both culture and politics, a relationship he describes as ‘narrative comorbidity’.Mad Fictions reorients critical discussions toward the lived realities of mental distress, while challenging the nationalist paradigms that have long dominated African literary scholarship.Cover art: "..deny that!" Acrylic on canvas, 2023. Nontokozo Tshabalala, myportfolio.com.