African Literatures as World Literature

Bys: Alexander Fyfe and Madhu Krishnan

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501379992
• ISBN13: 9781501379994
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"