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This volume provides scholars and students with a birds-eye view of the stories African literature has told about itself. It elaborates on Africa's contributions to an evolving, transnational literary vocabulary and though its organization around key terms rather than specific periods or national canons, Intellectual Traditions of African Literature also facilitates movement between and across African traditions: its framework is intrinsically comparative. As befits a project of this scale and versatility, its contributors are drawn from across professional ranks, areas of geographical and subfield expertise, and academies of origin. By contextualizing African literature within a larger set of literary terms and movements, it demonstrates that African literature is intrinsically worldly and transnational, even at points of local historical engagement.

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Jeanne-Marie Jackson is a Professor of English at Johns Hopkins, where she is also Senior Editor of the flagship journal ELH. She is the author of The African Novel of Ideas (Princeton 2021) and South African Literature's Russian Soul (Bloomsbury 2015), and is the co-editor of Ethiopia Unbound: A Critical Edition (Michigan State 2024). She has also published dozens of essays and chapters in both scholarly and public-facing venues, and in 2021 was named an Andrew Carnegie Fellow. Cajetan Iheka is Professor of English at Yale University, where he is the Director of the Whitney Humanities Center and Chair of the Council on African Studies. He is the author of Naturalizing Africa: Ecological Violence, Agency, and Postcolonial Resistance in African Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2018), and African Ecomedia: Network Forms, Planetary Politics (Duke University Press, 2021). He serves as editor-in-chief for African Studies Review, the flagship journal of the African Studies Association.

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