China in Twentieth- And Twenty-First-Century African Literature

"This book is for students and scholars who want to know more about the cultural issues that emerge from globalization between Africa and China; it examines African literature according themes such as the Cold War, decolonization, geopolitics, resource extraction, diaspora, gender, and race"--

List of contents

Introduction: African literary imaginaries of China; 1. Kofi Awoonor imagines China: the Longue Durée of Ghana - PRC relations; 2. Figures of extraction: representations of mining in Ghana and Zambia; 3. Figures of risk: memoirs of a Chinese South African and a Cameroonian in China; 4. Racialization and Afro-Chinese identity: Henri Lopès's Le lys et le flamboyant; Conclusion: forming Afro-Chinese worlds.

About the author

Duncan M. Yoon is an assistant professor at New York University. He was a Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress and a Fulbright Scholar to South Korea. He chaired the forum, African Literature to 1990, at the Modern Language Association.

Summary

This book is for students and scholars who want to know more about the cultural issues that emerge from globalization between Africa and China; it examines African literature according themes such as the Cold War, decolonization, geopolitics, resource extraction, diaspora, gender, and race.

Product details

• Authors: Duncan M Yoon, Duncan M. Yoon, Duncan M. (New York University) Yoon
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2023
• EAN: 9781009300278
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0930027-8
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Cambridge Studies in World Lit; Cambridge Studies in World Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; China, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, 20th Century, Africa, LITERARY CRITICISM / African, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 21st Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Chinese, 21st Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Literary studies: from c 2000