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Eastern African Literatures: Towards an Aesthetics of Proximity (Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures) - Hardcover
The Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures series offers stimulating and accessible introductions to definitive topics and key genres and regions within the rapidly diversifying field of postcolonial literary studies in English.
This volume offers an overview of contemporary Eastern African writing in English since the mid-twentieth century. It takes a fresh look at what has been an under-represented regional literary tradition within what continues to be an under-represented continental literary tradition. In particular, it broadens the scope of such an overview, complementing the extant monographs on well-known Eastern African writers such as Ng~ug~i to include a host of more recent, less-publicized novelists, dramatists, and poets. It extends the geographical range of existing studies from the familiar triad of Kenyan, Ugandan, and Tanzanian traditions of writing in English, to include the lesser-known Somali, Ethiopian, or Sudanese, or Mauritian or Madagascan traditions.
Rather than simply addressing national traditions or broad thematic bundles, the volume treats works as literatures of a region: that is, as literatures of place and space. Eastern African Literatures stresses the formative role of space, place and geography in fashioning the fabric of social interaction, whether individual or collective, in generating history, in moulding identities, and as a consequence in defining the shape of the future. The 'spatial' perspectives allow the 'proximate' rather than the 'distant' influence of literary art to come into view. 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. In this way, the book also makes a contribution to the ongoing theorization of literary and cultural innovation in the cultures of the Global South.
This volume offers an overview of contemporary Eastern African writing in English since the mid-twentieth century. It takes a fresh look at what has been an under-represented regional literary tradition within what continues to be an under-represented continental literary tradition. In particular, it broadens the scope of such an overview, complementing the extant monographs on well-known Eastern African writers such as Ng~ug~i to include a host of more recent, less-publicized novelists, dramatists, and poets. It extends the geographical range of existing studies from the familiar triad of Kenyan, Ugandan, and Tanzanian traditions of writing in English, to include the lesser-known Somali, Ethiopian, or Sudanese, or Mauritian or Madagascan traditions.
Rather than simply addressing national traditions or broad thematic bundles, the volume treats works as literatures of a region: that is, as literatures of place and space. Eastern African Literatures stresses the formative role of space, place and geography in fashioning the fabric of social interaction, whether individual or collective, in generating history, in moulding identities, and as a consequence in defining the shape of the future. The 'spatial' perspectives allow the 'proximate' rather than the 'distant' influence of literary art to come into view. 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. In this way, the book also makes a contribution to the ongoing theorization of literary and cultural innovation in the cultures of the Global South.
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Russell West-Pavlov, Professor of Anglophone Literatures, University of Tubingen/Research Associate, University of Pretoria
Russell West-Pavlov is Professor of Anglophone Literatures and co-founding director of the Centre for Global South Studies 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. His recent publications include Temporalities (Routledge, 2013) and (as editor) The Global South and Literature (Cambridge UP, 2018). He is co-convenor of a DAAD-funded international research network Literary Cultures of the Global South.
Russell West-Pavlov, Professor of Anglophone Literatures, University of Tubingen/Research Associate, University of Pretoria
Russell West-Pavlov is Professor of Anglophone Literatures and co-founding director of the Centre for Global South Studies 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. His recent publications include Temporalities (Routledge, 2013) and (as editor) The Global South and Literature (Cambridge UP, 2018). He is co-convenor of a DAAD-funded international research network Literary Cultures of the Global South.
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- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication date2018
- ISBN 10 0198745729
- ISBN 13 9780198745723
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages256
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