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Africa Writes Back to Self: Metafiction, Gender, Sexuality
Contributor(s): Mwangi, Evan M. (Author)

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 ISBN: 1438426828     ISBN-13: 9781438426822
Publisher: State University of New York Press
OUR PRICE: $35.10  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: July 2010
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | African
- Social Science | Gender Studies
Dewey: 823.914
Physical Information: 0.76" H x 6.1" W x 8.96" L (1.10 lbs) 360 pages
Features: Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
 
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The profound effects of colonialism and its legacies on African cultures have led postcolonial scholars of recent African literature to characterize contemporary African novels as, first and foremost, responses to colonial domination by the West. In Africa Writes Back to Self, Evan Maina Mwangi argues instead that the novels are primarily engaged in conversation with each other, particularly over emergent gender issues such as the representation of homosexuality and the disenfranchisement of women by male-dominated governments. He covers the work of canonical novelists Nadine Gordimer, Chinua Achebe, Ngu gi wa Thiong'o, and J. M. Coetzee, as well as popular writers such as Grace Ogot, David Maillu, Promise Okekwe, and Rebeka Njau. Mwangi examines the novels' self-reflexive fictional strategies and their potential to refigure the dynamics of gender and sexuality in Africa and demote the West as the reference point for cultures of the Global South.
 
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