TY - BOOK AU - Wawrzinek,Jennifer AU - Makokha,J.K.S. TI - Negotiating Afropolitanism : : essays on borders and spaces in cont emporary African literature and folklore / T2 - Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Litera turwissenschaft ; SN - 9789042032224 (hardback) U1 - 809/.8996 23 PY - 2011/// CY - Amsterdam ; , New York : PB - Rodopi, KW - African literature KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - Politics and literature KW - Africa N1 - Includes bibliographical references; On Afropolitanism /; Simon Gikandi --; In the spirit of Afropoli tanism /; J.K.S. Makokha --; Border crossings, precarity, syncretis m.; Afropolitanism and erudition in Francophone African novels, 1994- 2000 /; Sim Kilosho Kabale ;; Precarity and picaresque in contempor ary Nigerian prse :; an exemplary reading of Ben Okri's The famished road /; Jens Frederic Elze-Volland ;; Border crossing through myth- making :; the unbarred muse in selected Nigerian literature /; Sola Ogunbayo ;; Syncretic worldviews in Wole Soyinka's The interpreters /; Fella Benabed --; Dissidence, absence, transgression.; Dogs an d dissidents at the border :; narrative outbreak in Patrice Nganang's Temps de Chien /; Catherine Kroll ;; Addressing the absent other i n J.M. Coetzee's Age of iron /; Jennifer Wawrzinek ;; Nearly ending the world the African way :; Pepetela's suspension of capital's fron tiers and flows in O quase fim do mundo /; Phillip Rothwell ;; A po st-modern on the postmodern :; conflict and corporeality in Nuruddin Farah's Links /; John E. Masterson ;; Sociology/matriology in Maghr eb writing :; space and feminine transgression in Fanon's Sociologie d'une revolution and Chraibi's La civilisation, ma mere! /; Russell W est-Pavlov --; Unhomeliness, diasporic narration, heterotopia.; Neg otiating dislocated identities in the space of post-colonial chaos :; Goretti Kyomuhendo's Waiting /; Emilia Ilieva and Lennox Odiemo-M unara ;; No place to call home :; citizenship and belonging in M.G. Vassanji's The in-between world of Vikram Lall /; Nadini Iyer ;; W eaving exilic narratives :; homodiegetic narration and postcolonial t ranslocation in Abdulrazak Gurnah's Admiring Silence /; Remmy Shiundu Barasa and J.K.S. Makokha ;; Between diasporic identity and agency :; versions of the pastoral in Gurnah's Pilgrams way and Mahjoub's Nav igation of a rainmaker /; Maria Jesus Cabarcos Traseira ;; Locating cultural ambivalence and afropolitanism :; Nairobi and Dar-es-Salaam as heterotopia in the fiction of Dawood and Vassanji /; Godwin Siund u --; Language, borders, spaces.; Across the language border :; t he case of bilingual writers in Tanzania /; Mikhail Gromov ;; Sheng literature in Kenya :; socio-linguistic borders and spaces in popula r poetry /; Alina N. Rinkanya ;; "Na hawa watu lazima wakuwe seriou s!" :; FM radio spaces and folkloric performance of cosmopolitan iden tities in Kenya /; Mbugua wa Mungai ;; Empire speaks back :; auth enticity, folk voices and re-presentation of across in Gikutu radio nar ratives /; Michael Wainaina ER -