Evan M. Mwangi

Africa Writes Back to Self (eBook, PDF)

Metafiction, Gender, Sexuality

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Explores the metafictional strategies of contemporary African novels rather than characterizing them primarily as a response to colonialism.

The profound effects of colonialism and its legacies on African cultures have led postcolonial scholars of recent African literature to characterize contemporary African novels as, first and foremost, responses to colonial domination by the West. In Africa Writes Back to Self, Evan Maina Mwangi argues instead that the novels are primarily engaged in conversation with each other, particularly over emergent gender issues such as the representation of homosexuality and the disenfranchisement of women by male-dominated governments. He covers the work of canonical novelists Nadine Gordimer, Chinua Achebe, NguÅgiÅ wa Thiong'o, and J. M. Coetzee, as well as popular writers such as Grace Ogot, David Maillu, Promise Okekwe, and Rebeka Njau. Mwangi examines the novels' self-reflexive fictional strategies and their potential to refigure the dynamics of gender and sexuality in Africa and demote the West as the reference point for cultures of the Global South.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781438426976
• Artikelnr.: 60500736

Autorenporträt

Evan Maina Mwangi is Assistant Professor of English at Northwestern University and the coauthor (with Simon Gikandi) of The Columbia Guide to East African Literature in English Since 1945.