British and African literature in transnational context
By: Simon Lewis
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9780813036021
Subjects: History; English literature; Imperialism in literature; History and criticism; African literature (English); British; Postcolonialism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-252) and index.
Table of contents: title: Postcolonial geographies: the spatial shuttling of indigenes and immigrants. From Igboland to the east end: recasting African identity from Olaudah Equiano to Buchi Emecheta; title: "The house I live in ... a language which barks and scorns at me behind every corner"; title: 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; title: Raids on the inarticulate: Alan Hollinghurst's The swimming-pool library and the closets of imperial and postimperial British history; title: Sacrifice, ritual, and canonical violence in the British-African drama of T.S. Eliot, Caryl Churchill, and Wole Soyinka; title: 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; title: Shades of feminist nationalism in recent Zimbabwean and South African fiction.