In Search of the Afropolitan

In Search of the Afropolitan
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 327
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ISBN-10 : 9781783483556
ISBN-13 : 1783483555
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Download or read book In Search of the Afropolitan written by Eva Rask Knudsen and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-07-18 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Search of the Afropolitan explores human encounters and moments that speak to the challenges of being a 21st century African of the world. Against the background of an engaging evaluation of the heated debate on Afropolitanism and what constitutes an Afropolitan, the authors turn to literature and its intrinsic capacity for unfolding the human figure of the African as inherently complex and multidimensional. Through a detailed probing of the Afropolitan in literary narratives, the book enters into conversations about self-understanding and the signification of Africa in the contexts of global mobility. The book conceives of Afropolitanism as a flexible space of inquiry that curbs the inclination to set the definition of the ‘ism’ in stone. Instead, it attempts to distil, through close-up character analyses, a multifarious sense of what it means to be Afropolitan in the contemporary moment. In that sense, the encounters we come across in the literary narratives produce unexpected ontological negotiations on what it means to be African in the world today. As a special feature of In Search of the Afropolitan,the authors’ conversations with prominent writers, thinkers, and critics provide a lively context for the ongoing debate on Afropolitanism and the Afropolitan.


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