Contemporary African Literature in English by M Krishnan

Contemporary African Literature in English by M Krishnan

Contemporary African Literature in English explores the contours of representation in contemporary Anglophone African literature, drawing on a wide range of authors including Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Aminatta Forna, Brian Chikwava, Ngug? wa Thiong'o, Nuruddin Farah and Chris Abani.

"Scholars of contemporary anglophone African fiction will be grateful to Madhu Krishnan for balancing close readings of a number of significant texts with careful attention to their conditions of publication and receptionKrishnan illuminates both the ethical and aesthetic concerns of important world writers and the conditions under which works marked as 'African' enter the world." - Andrew van der Vlies, Queen Mary University of London, UK

'...it address abroad range of issues and questions which shape the way that Africa is performed on a global stage, thus, highlighting the contradictions and continuities of transnational literary production.' - Pan African Studies

Madhu Krishnan is Lecturer in 20th and 21st century Postcolonial Writing at the University of Bristol, UK. Her research considers the construction and dissemination of a transnational idea of Africa in contemporary African writing, with particular interests in representation, space and transnationality. She has published numerous articles on African literatures and postcolonial studies in journals including ARIEL, Research in African Literatures, CLIO and Journal of Commonwealth Literature.

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ISBN 13	9781137378323
ISBN 10	1137378328
Title	Contemporary African Literature in English
Author	M Krishnan
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Year published	2014-03-20
Number of pages	222
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