Heinemann’s African Writers Series and the Rise of James Ngugi

Bejjit, Nourdin

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“…However, the detailed archival work of Nourdin Bejjit perhaps offers the most compelling insight into the 'complex web of economic, political and literary conditions' out of which the AWS was constructed. Challenging arguments made by Huggan and Griffiths, Bejjit tracks the political, personal, commercial and literary factors that shaped both Ngu ˜gı ˜'s and Achebe's relationships with HEB and foregrounds the ways in which over time both writers became increasingly committed to 'moving the centre' of African cultural production to the African continent (Bejjit 2015(Bejjit , 2009.…”

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Routledge Handbook of African Literature

Adejunmobi¹,

Coetzee

2019

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The turn of the twenty-first century has witnessed an expansion of critical approaches to African literature. The Routledge Handbook of African Literature is a one-stop publication bringing together studies of African literary texts that embody an array of newer approaches applied to a wide range of works. This includes frameworks derived from food studies, utopian studies, network theory, eco-criticism, and examinations of the human/animal interface alongside more familiar discussions of postcolonial politics.The handbook is divided into seven parts: i) Mapping political agencies, ii) Journeys, geographies, identities, iii) Working through genre, iv) The world of and beyond humans, v) Everyday sociality, vi) Bodies, subjectivities, affect, vii) Literary networks. In each, contributors address the themes of the section from a variety of perspectives in conjunction with analysis of different literary texts. All chapters are original research essays written by a broad spectrum of scholars with expertise in the subject, providing an application of the most recent insights into analysis of particular topics or application of particular critical frameworks to one or more African literary works.The handbook will be a valuable interdisciplinary resource for scholars and students of African literature, African culture, postcolonial literature and literary analysis.

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confidence: 99%