Negotiating Afropolitanism :    essays on borders and spaces in cont emporary African literature and folklore /  
edited by Jennifer Wawrzi nek and J.K.S. Makokha. 
 - Amsterdam ;    New York :    Rodopi,    2011. 
 - 371 p. ;    24 cm. 
 - Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Litera turwissenschaft ;    146 .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/>  On Afropolitanism /    In the spirit of Afropoli tanism /    Border crossings, precarity, syncretis m.    Afropolitanism and erudition in Francophone African novels, 1994- 2000 /    Precarity and picaresque in contempor ary Nigerian prse :    an exemplary reading of Ben Okri's The famished road /    Border crossing through myth- making :    the unbarred muse in selected Nigerian literature /    Syncretic worldviews in Wole Soyinka's The interpreters /    Dissidence, absence, transgression.    Dogs an d dissidents at the border :    narrative outbreak in Patrice Nganang's Temps de Chien /    Addressing the absent other i n J.M. Coetzee's Age of iron /    Nearly ending the world the African way :    Pepetela's suspension of capital's fron tiers and flows in O quase fim do mundo /    A po st-modern on the postmodern :    conflict and corporeality in Nuruddin Farah's Links /    Sociology/matriology in Maghr eb writing :    space and feminine transgression in Fanon's Sociologie d'une revolution and Chraibi's La civilisation, ma mere! /    Unhomeliness, diasporic narration, heterotopia.    Neg otiating dislocated identities in the space of post-colonial chaos :    Goretti Kyomuhendo's Waiting /    No place to call home :    citizenship and belonging in M.G. Vassanji's The in-between world of Vikram Lall /    W eaving exilic narratives :    homodiegetic narration and postcolonial t ranslocation in Abdulrazak Gurnah's Admiring Silence /    Between diasporic identity and agency :    versions of the pastoral in Gurnah's Pilgrams way and Mahjoub's Nav igation of a rainmaker /    Locating cultural ambivalence and afropolitanism :    Nairobi and Dar-es-Salaam as heterotopia in the fiction of Dawood and Vassanji /    Language, borders, spaces.    Across the language border :    t he case of bilingual writers in Tanzania /    Sheng literature in Kenya :    socio-linguistic borders and spaces in popula r poetry /    "Na hawa watu lazima wakuwe seriou s!" :    FM radio spaces and folkloric performance of cosmopolitan iden tities in Kenya /    Empire speaks back :    auth enticity, folk voices and re-presentation of across in Gikutu radio nar ratives /    Simon Gikandi --    J.K.S. Makokha --    Sim Kilosho Kabale ;    Jens Frederic Elze-Volland ;    Sola Ogunbayo ;    Fella Benabed --    Catherine Kroll ;    Jennifer Wawrzinek ;    Phillip Rothwell ;    John E. Masterson ;    Russell W est-Pavlov --    Emilia Ilieva and Lennox Odiemo-M unara ;    Nadini Iyer ;    Remmy Shiundu Barasa and J.K.S. Makokha ;    Maria Jesus Cabarcos Traseira ;    Godwin Siund u --    Mikhail Gromov ;    Alina N. Rinkanya ;    Mbugua wa Mungai ;    Michael Wainaina. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9789042032224 (hardback) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2011-456447 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/> African literature -- History and criticism.-- 20th century <br/> Politics and literature -- Africa.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>809/.8996