The first book-length study on the relationship between African literature and new media.
Contents
Introduction: Kenyan and Nigerian Writers in the Digital Age; Network Thinking: Literary Networks in the Digital Age; Class and Poetry in the Digital Age; Class Consciousness in Online Fictions; Digital Queer: The Queering of African Literature; Middle-Class, Transnational, Queer and African; 'Ashewo no be Job': The Figure of the Modern Girl in the Digital Age; The Erotic in New Writing from Nigeria; Social Media and the Aesthetics of the Quotidian; Conclusion: Connecting the Dots