An Afropolitan literary aesthetics? Afropolitan style and tropes in recent diasporic African fiction
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An Afropolitan literary aesthetics? Afropolitan style and tropes in recent diasporic African fiction. / Rahbek, Ulla; Knudsen, Eva Rask.
In: European Journal of English Studies, Vol. 21, No. 2, 2017, p. 115-128.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - An Afropolitan literary aesthetics?
T2 - Afropolitan style and tropes in recent diasporic African fiction
AU - Rahbek, Ulla
AU - Knudsen, Eva Rask
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - This article discusses what the authors call an emerging Afropolitan aesthetics. Through an exploration of recurring stylistic features, the article focuses particularly on the trope of a mobility-induced anxiety that entwines place and self. The ontological and affective troping of return and of self-understanding and the contemporary signification of Africa as a complex place of relocation and reconnection are explored in discussions of literary characters in Taiye Selasi’s Ghana Must Go (2013), Yvonne Owuor’s Dust (2014), Sefi Atta’s A Bit of Difference (2013) and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah (2013).
AB - This article discusses what the authors call an emerging Afropolitan aesthetics. Through an exploration of recurring stylistic features, the article focuses particularly on the trope of a mobility-induced anxiety that entwines place and self. The ontological and affective troping of return and of self-understanding and the contemporary signification of Africa as a complex place of relocation and reconnection are explored in discussions of literary characters in Taiye Selasi’s Ghana Must Go (2013), Yvonne Owuor’s Dust (2014), Sefi Atta’s A Bit of Difference (2013) and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah (2013).
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - afropolitansk litteratur
U2 - 10.1080/13825577.2017.1344473
DO - 10.1080/13825577.2017.1344473
M3 - Journal article
VL - 21
SP - 115
EP - 128
JO - European Journal of English Studies
JF - European Journal of English Studies
SN - 1382-5577
IS - 2
ER -
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