Muse and Power: African Women Writers and Digital Infrastructure in World Literature

Abstract

This article explores how women writers in Nigeria and Tanzania use digital media, drawing parallels between infrastructural enablement and literary worldmaking. It argues that female African writers offer insights into the embodied practices and cultural imaginaries of digitally mediated creativity, which can shed light on the paradoxical entanglements of infrastructure. [infrastructure, world literature, African women writers, digital media, worldmaking]

Critical Heritage Studies and the Futures of Europe

“…Although tangible infrastructures have received considerable attention, also over the past year the affordances of digital infrastructures in (re)producing or challenging power structures have been exposed (Bergère 2019;Uimonen 2019). Especially, e-government portals (Leenes 2005) and social networks (Miller 2011) have been identified as the new pipes, grids and road systems of our social arena.…”