Postcolonial agency in African and diasporic literature and film a study in globalectics / Lokangaka Losambe.
| Author/creator | Losambe, Lokangaka |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : Routledge, 2022. |
| Description | 1 online resource |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Series | Routledge African studies Routledge African studies. |
| Contents | I. The Enslaved African and Postcolonial Agency -- Olaudah Equiano's The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, The African, Written by Himself; Haile Gerima's Sankofa (film); Amma Asante's Belle (film) -- II. The Black American Stranger and Postcolonial Agency in Africa: The Congo Narrative -- The Anti-Enslavement/-Colonial Activist: George Washington Williams (1849-1891) -- The Postcolonial Pragmatist: William Henry Sheppard (1865-1927) -- The Other Allies -- III. Articulations of Postcolonial Agency in Contemporary African Literature -- The Colonial Encounter and Postcolonial Agency in Wole Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman and Dani Kouyat©♭'s Keita! L'©♭ritage du Griot (Film) -- Postcolonial Conjunctive Consciousness in the Literature of the New African Diaspora: Chris Abani's The Virgin of Flames, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah, Leila Aboulela's The Translator -- CODA: Francis Abiola Irele and the African Imagination. |
| Abstract | "This book chronicles the rise and the development of postcolonial agency since Africa's encounter with Western modernity through African and African diaspora literature and film. Using African and African diasporic imaginaries (creative writings, autobiographies, polemical writings, and filmic media) the author shows how African subjects have resisted enslavement and colonial domination over the past centuries, and how they have sought to reshape "global modernity". Authors and film makers whose works are examined in detail include Olaudah Equiano, William Sheppard, Haile Gerima, Wole Soyinka, Dani Kouyat©♭, Chris Abani, Chimamanda Adichie, Leila Aboulela, Imbolo Mbue, Alain Mabanckou, Abdourahman Waberi, Marie NDiaye, and Fatou Diome. Providing a critical study of nativism, hybridity and post-hybrid conjunctive consciousness, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of African and African diasporic literature, history, and cultural studies"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Losambe, Lokangaka. Postcolonial agency in African and African diasporic literature and film New York : Routledge, 2022 9781032190884 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2021039384 |
| ISBN | 9781000532906 (epub) |
| ISBN | 9781003257639 (ebook) |
| ISBN | (hardback) |
| ISBN | (paperback) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |