ABSTRACT
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.
Every chapter is an original research essay 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.
Chapter 4 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at https://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|2 pages
Mapping Political Agencies
chapter 2|14 pages
‘Children of the Cold War’
part II|2 pages
Journeys, Geographies, Identities
chapter 7|18 pages
History, imperial eyes and the ‘mutual gaze’
part III|2 pages
Working through Genres
chapter 10|15 pages
How to be a writer in your 30s in Lagos
part IV|2 pages
The World of and beyond Humans
part V|2 pages
Everyday Sociality
chapter 18|15 pages
Geopolitical and global topologies in fiction
chapter 20|15 pages
‘Foundational fictions’
part VI|2 pages
Bodies, Subjectivities, Affect
part VII|2 pages
Literary Networks