British and African Literature in Transnational Context [electronic resource] /
Lewis, Simon,1960-
Gainesville : University Press of Florida,
c2011.
By comparing texts by authors from African and British backgrounds across a wide variety of political orientations, Simon Lewis analyzes the deeper relationships between colonizer and colonized. He brings issues of race, gender, class, and sexuality into the analysis, providing new ways for cultural scholars to think about how empire and colony have impacted one another from the late 18th century through the decades following World War II.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
By comparing texts by authors from African and British backgrounds across a wide variety of political orientations, Simon Lewis analyzes the deeper relationships between colonizer and colonized. He brings issues of race, gender, class, and sexuality into the analysis, providing new ways for cultural scholars to think about how empire and colony have impacted one another from the late 18th century through the decades following World War II.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-252) and index.
Postcolonial geographies: the spatial shuttling of indigenes and immigrants. From Igboland to the east end: recasting African identity from Olaudah Equiano to Buchi Emecheta -- "The house I live in ... a language which barks and scorns at me behind every corner" -- Colonial histories: class, gender, sexuality, and racial violence in Anglo-African writing. Silence of the Askaris: William Boyd's An ice-cream war and the European history of the First World War in East Africa -- Raids on the inarticulate: Alan Hollinghurst's The swimming-pool library and the closets of imperial and postimperial British history -- Sacrifice, ritual, and canonical violence in the British-African drama of T.S. Eliot, Caryl Churchill, and Wole Soyinka -- Mayibuye iAfrika: reconstituting African nationalism in the new transnational south. Embodying Black ways of being in the world in the spatialized historiography of postApartheid literature -- Shades of feminist nationalism in recent Zimbabwean and South African fiction.
Description based on print version record.
British
Imperialism in literature.
Postcolonialism
English literature
African literature (English)