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Africa's Narrative Geographies
Charting the Intersections of Geocriticism and Postcolonial Studies
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Africa's Narrative Geographies
Charting the Intersections of Geocriticism and Postcolonial Studies
About this book
Building on the emerging field of geocriticism, this book explores Africa's complex, dynamic literary landscapes, proffering new methods for understanding the geographies of African literature. Using both cultural geography and political ecology, Crowley offers fresh insights into key authors' imagined geographies of resistance and alterity.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Series Editor’s Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Charting a Path for Geocriticism
- 1 “My Black Land”: Senghor’s Construction of “Africa”
- 2 Place and Scale in Ngugi’s “Universal Garden”
- 3 Imagining the Global Village: Bessie Head’s Narratives of Migration and Boundaries
- 4 Cosmopolitan Somalia: Place and Identity in Farah’s Maps and Links
- 5 Half Slum, Half Paradise: Abani’s Global Cities
- Conclusion: The Landscape of Geocritical Inquiry: Finding Common Ground for Geocriticism and Ecocriticism
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index