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  1. The Routledge handbook of the new African diasporic literature
    Contributor: Losambe, Lokangaka (Herausgeber); Ojaide, Tanure (Herausgeber)
    Published: 2024
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York ; Taylor & Francis Group, London

    "The Routledge Handbook of the New African Diasporic Literature introduces world literature readers to the transnational, multivocal writings of immigrant African authors. Covering works produced in Europe, North America, and elsewhere in the world,... more

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    "The Routledge Handbook of the New African Diasporic Literature introduces world literature readers to the transnational, multivocal writings of immigrant African authors. Covering works produced in Europe, North America, and elsewhere in the world, the book investigates three major aesthetic paradigms in African diasporic literature: the Sankofan wave (late 1960s- early 1990s); the Janusian wave (1990s-2020s); and the Offshoots of the New Arrivants (those born and growing up outside Africa). Written by well-established and emerging scholars of African and diasporic literatures from across the world, the chapters in the book cover the works of well-known and not so well-known Anglophone, Francophone, and Lusophone writers from different theoretical positionalities and critical approaches, pointing out the unique innovative artistic qualities of this major subgenre of African literature. The focus on the "diasporic consciousness" of the writers and their works sets this handbook apart from others that solely emphasize migration, which is more of a process than the community of settled African people involved in the dynamic acts of living reflected in diasporic writings. This book will appeal to researchers and students from across the fields of Literature, Diaspora Studies, African Studies, Migration Studies, and Postcolonial Studies"--...

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Losambe, Lokangaka (Herausgeber); Ojaide, Tanure (Herausgeber)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1003396690; 9781040013977; 104001397X; 9781040013984; 1040013988; 9781003396697
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    Subjects: Literature, Modern; Literature, Modern; Literature, Modern; Authors, Black; African diaspora; Immigrants' writings; LITERARY CRITICISM / African
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource