Narrating African Futures - In(ter)ventions and Agencies in African and African Diasporic Fiction

List of contents

Preface – On futureS, or: the future is on 1. Dream*hoping memory into futureS: reading resistant narratives about Maafa by employing futureS as a category of analysis 2. Diaspora dynamics: shaping the future of literature 3. I am a fundamentalist of freedom 4. Do African digital natives wear glass skirts? 5. Digital Africa 6. Black face in hyperspace 7. Pumzi; the labyrinth of futureS 8. Whiteness and future environmentalism in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace (1999) 9. Contemporary Cameroon poetry in English, nature and the politics of consciousness raising for the future 10. Ayi Kwei Armah’s secular egalitarian Africa: an authentic vision or a utopian dialectic 11. Khal Torabully. "Coolies" and corals, or living in transarchipelagic worlds 12. In transition: self-expression in recent African LGBTIQ narratives

About the author

Susan Arndt is a Literature Professor who has studied and worked in Berlin, London, Frankfurt/Main, Oxford and Bayreuth with a focus on futurity, racism, Shakespeare and African feminism.
Nadja Ofuatey-Alazard is an African-German author, filmmaker/producer, editor, culture activist and managing/artistic director of the NGO Each One Teach One (EOTO) in Berlin.

Summary

This volume focuses on fictional negotiations of African and African-diasporic futures, emphasising dreaming and memory, environmentalism and ethics, freedom and resistance. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of the African Literature Association.

Product details

• Authors: Susan Ofuatey-Alazard Arndt
• Assisted by: Susan Arndt (Editor), Arndt Susan (Editor), Nadja Ofuatey-Alazard (Editor), Shirin Assa (Co-editor), Abioseh Porter (Co-editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9780367663759
• ISBN: 978-0-367-66375-9
• No. of pages: 140
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Performing Arts, Africa, LITERARY CRITICISM / African, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, ART / African, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / Language Arts, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / African Studies