Contingent Canons: African Literature and the Politics of Location (Elements in Publishing and Book Culture)

This Element explores the mechanisms through which 'African literature', as a market category, has been consecrated within the global literary field. Drawing on archival, textual and field-based research, it proposes that the normative story of African literary writing has functioned to efface a broader material history of African literary production located on and oriented to the continent itself.

• | Author: Madhu Krishnan
• | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• | Publication Date: Nov 08, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 75 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Language Arts & Disciplines
• | ISBN-10: 1108445373
• | ISBN-13: 9781108445375