دانلود کتاب Afropolitan Literature as World Literature

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Cover page
Halftitle page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
CONTENTS
1 Introduction
Works cited
2 The Worlds of Afropolitan World Literature
Introduction
Roots vs. Routes? Reading Africa into Afropolitanism
Afropolitan Literature as World Literature? Rethinking the Worlds of Literature
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor’s Dust—Afropolitanism to Come
Conclusion
Notes
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3 Strategic Label Afropolitan Literature in Germany
Biskaya— An Afropolitan Berlin Novel
The Appeal of Afropolitanism
Afropolitan Literature in Germany and Elsewhere
Conclusion
Notes
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4 Afropolitanism and the Afro-Asian Diaspora in M. G. Vassanji’s And Home Was Kariakoo
Introduction
Afropolitanism and And Home Was Kariakoo
Indian Ocean and Historical Interventions
Conclusion
Notes
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5 “White Man’s Magic”
Introduction
Dystopian Speculations of Afropolitanism
Being and Becoming : An Ontology of Racialized Existentialism
“White Man’s Magic” and the “Racial Passing” Drama
Conclusion
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6 Toward an Environmental Theory of Afropolitan Literature
Toward a Theory of Eco-Afropolitanism
Land Matters and Afropolitan Mediation in Zakes Mda’s The Heart of Redness
Whither Eco-Afropolitanism?
Acknowledgments
Notes
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7 How Afropolitanism Unworlds the African World
Introduction: Afropolitanism in the New World
Afropolitan Writing as World literature?
Afropolitan Writing as Commodity
Rise of the Afropolitan Novel
Conclusion: What is a World?
Notes
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8 Afropolitan Aesthetics as an Ethics of Openness
What is Africa to Me?
Oppositional Identity and Aesthetics Imagination
Afropolitanism: Being African of the World
Afropolitan Aesthetics and Openness
Afropolitanism and Human Flourishing
Afropolitan Literature as World Literature
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9 Fingering the Jagged Grain Re-reading Afropolitanism (and Africa) in Taiye Selasi’s Ghana Must Go
Introduction: Afropolitanism Must Go!: Re-reading Africa(ns) in the World
‘Fingering [the] jagged grain’: Reading the blues in Ghana Must Go
The “Aching [Blues] Consciousness”: Navigating Unfamiliar Territories
(Women) Singing the Blues: Ghana Must Go as a Feminist Praxis
Conclusion: Alter-native Narratives of Existence?
Notes
References
10 “Part Returnee and Part-Tourist”
1. Non-Western Gazes in Travel Writing
2. Afropolitan Travelers: Unstable Belongings and the Culture of Mobility
3. The Strangeness of Travel: Looking for the Self in Nigeria
4. Final Considerations: Afropolitan Travels in a Globalized World
Notes
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11 “Something Covered But Not Hidden”
Contesting Poles: Afropolitan Writing, World Literature, and the Pitfalls of Categorization
Obscure Relations: Reading Teju Cole’s Writing as an Assemblage
Envisioning and Estranging Worlds: Obscurity in Blind Spot
Open City and Every Day is for the Thief: The Case of the Unnamed Narrator
Conclusion: Obscurity as an Afropolitan Way of Worlding
Note
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12 The Hesitant Local
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NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX