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1 online resource (327 pages) |
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text rdacontent |
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computer rdamedia |
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online resource rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Opening: in search of the Afropolitan -- Afropolitanism: a contested field and its trajectories: the authors in conversation with Simon Gikandi -- The vexed question of mobility -- Here, there, and elsewhere: the unhinging of home and belonging -- "Africans of the world" and the politics of (re-)connection: the authors in conversation with Kwame Anthony Appiah, Minna Salami, Emma Dabiri, and Asta Busingye Lydersen -- The authors in conversation with Sefi Atta, Chika Unigwe, and Brian Chikwava -- Sharing and caring: storytelling and Afropolitan communities -- A complex weave: "race," gender, and Afropolitan love -- Less-fortunate Afropolitans, "lapsed Africans," and class conundrums, a statement by Taiye Selasi -- Endnotes: Afropolitan narratives, tropes, and styles. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
African literature (English) -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
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African diaspora in literature.
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Africans -- Race identity.
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Group identity -- Africa.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Rahbek, Ulla, author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Knudsen, Eva Rask. In search of the Afropolitan : encounters, conversations and contemporary diasporic African literature. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield International, [2016] 9781783483532 |
| ISBN |
9781783483532 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9781783483549 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9781783483556 (e-book) |
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