The novel in Africa and the Caribbean since 1950 : edited by Simon Gikandi. volume-2/
Material type: TextLanguage: English Series: Oxford history of the novel in English | The Oxford history of the novel in English ; 11Publication details: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.Description: xxvii, 574 pages ; 26 cmISBN:- 9780199765096
- 019976509X
- African fiction (English)
- Caribbean fiction (English)
- West Indian fiction (English)
- English fiction
- Department of English
- -- History and criticism
- -- History and criticism
- -- History and criticism
- -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- -- 21st century -- History and criticism
- Africa -- In literature
- Caribbean Area -- In literature
- West Indies -- In literature
- 809.3996 23 GIK
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1. The institution of the novel in Africa and the Caribbean 2. Geographies of the novel 3. The novel and cultural politics 4. The novel, orality, and popular culture 5. Styles and genres 6. New frontiers 7. Critical understanding
Why did the novel take such a long time to emerge in the colonial world? And, what cultural work did it come to perform in societies where subjects were not free and modes of social organization diverged from the European cultural centers where the novel gained its form and audience? Answering these questions and more, Volume 11, The Novel in Africa and the Caribbean since 1950 explores the institutions of cultural production that exerted influence in late colonialism, from missionary schools and metropolitan publishers to universities and small presses. How these structures provoke and respond to the literary trends and social peculiarities of Africa and the Caribbean impacts not only the writing and reading of novels in those regions, but also has a transformative effect on the novel as a global phenomenon. Together, the volume's 32 contributing experts tell a story about the close relationship between the novel and the project of decolonization, and explore the multiple ways in which novels enable readers to imagine communities beyond their own and thus made this form of literature a compelling catalyst for cultural transformation. The authors show that, even as the novel grows in Africa and the Caribbean as a mark of the elites' mastery of European form, it becomes the essential instrument for critiquing colonialism and for articulating the new horizons of cultural nationalism. Within this historical context, the volume examines works by authors such as Chinua Achebe, Nadine Gordimer, George Lamming, Jamaica Kincaid, V.S. Naipaul, Zoe Wicomb, J.M. Coetzee, and many others.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 527-547) and indexes.
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