Eastern African Literatures - Towards an Aesthetics of Proximity

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.

List of contents

• 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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Russell West-Pavlov, Russell (Professor of Anglophone Lite West-Pavlov, Russell (Professor of Anglophone Literatures West-Pavlov
• Assisted by: Russell West-Pavlov (Editor), Russell (Professor of Anglophone Literatures West-Pavlov (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2018
• EAN: 9780198745723
• ISBN: 978-0-19-874572-3
• No. of pages: 246
• Series: Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures; Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures; Oxford Studies in Postcolonial
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies