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  title info:
    title: Writing the noncolonial self
    sub title: modern African literatures and the politics of subjectivity
  name:
    name part: Fyfe, Alexander
    name part: 1989-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: vau
    date issued: 2026
    copyright date: 2026
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 254 pages ; 24 cm
  abstract: "This book examines how African writers have used literary forms to reimagine subjectivity in new terms, a category of practices he calls the "noncolonial.""-- Provided by publisher.
  abstract: "How African literary forms imagine ways of living and being within coloniality. Writing the Noncolonial Self suggests a new way of thinking about the connections between politics, subjectivity, and literary practice. In this groundbreaking study, Alexander Fyfe reveals how African writers have used literary forms to reimagine subjectivity in new terms, a category of practices he calls the "noncolonial." Examining the work of a diverse set of practitioners such as Bessie Head, Cheikh Hamidou Kane, and Akwaeke Emezi, Fyfe shows how African literature has taken on the challenge of rethinking the self in ways that exceed constructions of the subject, eschewing intelligibility under regimes of coloniality in favor of an investment in its own capacity to articulate alternative ways of being. Intervening in key debates in African literary studies, Writing the Noncolonial Self makes a case for the literary as an essential kind of noncolonial practice, one that at every moment rethinks its own horizons of possibility. "-- Provided by publisher.
  table of contents: Introduction: Modern African Literatures and the Politics of Subjectivity -- Humanism as Literary Practice: The Stakes of the Human in the Makerere Moment -- Narrative After French Coloniality: Trajectories of the Self in Post-Negritude Francophone Fiction -- Lyric Subjectivities: Two Women Poets Within Liberalism -- Queer Stories That Aren't Just Stories: Difference as Literary Practice in Contemporary Nigerian Diaspora Writing -- New Personal Histories: Recent Zimbabwean Historical Writing -- Coda: New Specificities of the Literary
  note: Alexander Fyfe.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: African literature
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Humanism in literature
  subject:
    topic: Subjectivity in literature
  subject:
    topic: Politics in literature
  subject:
    topic: Humanisme dans la littérature
  subject:
    topic: Subjectivité dans la littérature
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM / African
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Politics
  classification: PN849.A35 F94 2026
  classification: 809.896
  classification: LIT004010
  classification: LIT025030
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Writing the noncolonial self
    name:
      name part: Fyfe, Alexander, 1989-
    origin info:
      publisher: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2026
    identifier: (DLC) 2026010612
  identifier: 9780813954943
  identifier: 0813954940
  identifier: 9780813954950
  identifier: 0813954959
  identifier: 9780813954967
  identifier: 2026010611
  record info:
    record content source: IEN/DLC
    record creation date: 260224
    record change date: 20260520104212.1
    record identifier: in00005783523
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng