Routledge handbook of African literature /
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Moradewun Adejunmobi and Carli Coetzee
- Mapping political agencies
- Children of the Cold War: rethinking African literary generations through the global conflict / Monica Popescu
- Ethics and the politics of the ordinary in African literature / Chielozona Eze
- Globalisation, mobility and labour in diasporic African fiction / Anna-Leena Toivanen
- Towards an ethics of the humanitarian imagination / Allison Mackey
- Journeys, geographies, identities
- Decolonising the Afropolitan: intra-African migrations in post-2000 literature / Rebecca Fasselt
- History, imperial eyes and the "mutual gaze": narratives of African-Chinese encounters in recent literary works / Ying Cheng
- Ethnicity in post-2000 African writing / Agogho Akpome
- Mythopoesis of the self: nation, textuality and writer as political hero / Rotimi Fasan
- Working through genre
- How to be a writer in your 30s in Lagos: self-help literature and the creation of authority in Africa / Rebecca Jones
- Gothic supernaturalism in the "African imagination": locating an emerging form / Rebecca Duncan
- Contested filial voice in African female-authored autobiographies / Marciana Were
- "I can't go forward, I must go back:" Ben Okri's (p)anachronistic utopias / Ian MacDonald
- The world of and beyond humans
- African literature, audience, and the search for the (non)human / Cajetan Iheka
- Dirty ecology: African women and the ethics of cultivation / Sarah Lincoln
- African fictions, animal figures, and anthropocentric frameworks / Jesse Arsenault
- Depictions of Kenyan lands and landscapes by four women writers / Ng'ang'a Muchiri
- Everyday sociality
- Geopolitical and global topologies in fiction: Islam at the fault lines and the world / Shirin Edwin
- Appetite and everyday life in African literature / Delores B Phillips
- Foundational fictions: variations of the marriage plot in Flora Nwapa's early anglophone-Igbo novels / Fiona Moolla
- Drinking scenes: alcohol in the francophone African novel / Pim Higginson
- Bodies, subjectivities, affect
- Desire and freedom in Yvonne Vera's fiction / Grace Musila
- The forms of shame and African literature / Naminata Diabate
- Scattered testimony: locating the Rwandan genocide in transnational witnessing / Martina Kopf
- Contestations through same-sex desire in Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi's Kintu / Edgar Nabutanyi
- Literary networks
- The story club: literary networks offline / Stephanie Bosch Santana
- Languages and prizes: expanding literary boundaries / Doseline Kiguru
- Publishers' networks and the making of 21st century African literature in English / Kate Wallis
- Literary networks in the Horn of Africa: Oromo and Amharic intellectual histories / Sara Marzagora and Ayele Kebede.