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African Literature and US Empire is a study of imbricated exceptionalisms with implications for our understanding not only of anglophone writing from two of Africa's most powerful states, but also of the globalization of the American dream and the tenacity of the national as category of ongoing affective investment. Hallemeier is a careful reader and astute theorist able to harness the energies of affect studies to a powerful materialist critique of the reproduction of aspirations and inequities transported from the US to African contexts; in so doing, her study offers new ways of understanding the very categories 'postcolonial', 'post-independence', and 'neo-colonial'.--Andrew van der Vlies, University of Adelaide

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Katherine Hallemeier is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Geneva. She is the author of J.M. Coetzee and the Limits of Cosmopolitanism (2013). Her research on contemporary anglophone African fiction has appeared in journals such as Comparative Literature, Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Modern Fiction Studies, and ariel.

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