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British and African literature in transnational context
Postcolonial geographies: the spatial shuttling of indigenes and immigrants. From Igboland to the east end: recasting African identity from Olaudah Equiano to Buchi Emecheta -- "The house I live in ... a language which barks and scorns at me behind every corner" -- Colonial histories: class, gender, sexuality, and racial violence in Anglo-African writing. Silence of the Askaris: William Boyd's An ice-cream war and the European history of the First World War in East Africa -- Raids on the inarticulate: Alan Hollinghurst's The swimming-pool library and the closets of imperial and postimperial British history -- Sacrifice, ritual, and canonical violence in the British-African drama of T.S. Eliot, Caryl Churchill, and Wole Soyinka -- Mayibuye iAfrika: reconstituting African nationalism in the new transnational south. Embodying Black ways of being in the world in the spatialized historiography of postApartheid literature -- Shades of feminist nationalism in recent Zimbabwean and South African fiction.
Includes bibliographical references and index.