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Eastern African Literatures - Towards an Aesthetics of Proximity

English · Hardback

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The book offers an overview of Eastern African writing in English since the mid-twentieth century. It shows how proximate modes of literary communication, arising out of residual but vibrant traditions of oral communication, blend with contemporary media to produce hybrid genres of proximity specific to Eastern African literary production.

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  • Introduction: Towards an Aesthetics of proximity

  • Part 1: Territories

  • 1: Coast

  • 2: Land

  • 3: Cities

  • Part 2: Histories

  • 4: Precolonial Histories

  • 5: Colonial Histories

  • 6: Postcolonial Histories

  • Part 3: Communities

  • 7: Gender

  • 8: Migratory Identities

  • 9: Eastern Africa in the Global South

  • Conclusion: Eastern African Literary Futures



About the author

Russell West-Pavlov is Professor of Anglophone Literatures at the University of Tübingen and a Research Associate in the English Department at the University of Pretoria. He completed doctorates and a post-doc degree at Cambridge, Lille, and Cologne and his recent publications include Temporalities (Routledge, 2013) and The Global South and Literature (2018). He is co-convenor of a DAAD-funded international research network Literary Cultures of the Global South.

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The book offers an overview of Eastern African writing in English since the mid-twentieth century. It shows how proximate modes of literary communication, arising out of residual but vibrant traditions of oral communication, blend with contemporary media to produce hybrid genres of proximity specific to Eastern African literary production.

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