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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.

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Author:   Simon Gikandi (Robert Schirmer Professor of English, Robert Schirmer Professor of English, Princeton University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 24.90cm , Height: 4.80cm , Length: 17.50cm
Weight:   1.111kg
ISBN:  

9780199765096

ISBN 10:   019976509
Pages:   608
Publication Date:   01 December 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements List of Contributors General Editor's Preface Introduction Editorial Note Part I: The Institution of the Novel in Africa and the Carribean 1. The Reinvention of the Novel in Africa Simon Gikandi and Maurice Vambe 2. Cultures of Print in the Caribbean Gail Low 3. The Novel and Decolonization in Africa Mpalive-Hangson Msiska 4. The Novel and Decolonization in the Caribbean Supriya Nair Part II: Geographies of the Novel 5. The Novel in African Languages Alena Rettovà 6. Expatriate Writers Simon Lewis 7. The City and the Village: Geographies of Fiction in Africa Jennifer Wenzel 8. Geographies of Migration in the Caribbean J. Dillon Brown PART III. The Novel and Cultural Politics 9. Women Novelists in Africa and the Caribbean Elaine Savory 10. Gender and Sexuality in Caribbean Fiction Alison Donnell 11. Gender and Sexuality and Africa Fiction Brenna Munro 12. The Novel and Apartheid Andrew van der Vlies 13. The Novel and Human Rights Joseph Slaughter Part IV: The Novel, Orality, and Popular Culture 14. Popular Fiction in Africa and the Caribbean Jane Bryce 15. Oral and Popular Cultures in the African Novel James Ogude 16. Oral and Popular Cultures in the Caribbean Natasha Barnes Part V. Styles and Genres 17. The Novel and History in Africa Eleni Coundrioutis 18. The Novel and History in the Caribbean Nana Wilson-Tagoe 19. Romance and Realism Yogita Goya 20. Modernism and Modernist Fiction Tim Watson 21. Autobiography and Autobiographical Fiction in the Caribbean Sandra Pouchet Paquet 22. Autobiography in Africa Kgomotso Michael Masemola 23. Short Stories in the Caribbean Victor Ramraj 24. Short Stories in Africa Antonia Kalu 25. Detective Fiction Matthew Christensen Part VI: New Frontiers 26. African Fiction in a Global Context Peter Kalliney 27. Caribbean Fiction in a Global Context Raphael Dalleo 28. Experimental Fictions Evan Mwangi 29. The Novel in Translation Shaden Tageldin Part VII: Critical Understandings 30. The Novel and the Question of Language Chantal Zabus 31. Criticism of the Novel in the Caribbean Simon Gikandi 32. The Novel in Africa: Theories and Debates Gaurav Desai Composite Bibliography Index of Authors and Primary Texts General Index

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Simon Gikandi is Robert Schirmer Professor of English at Princeton University. His previous books include Slavery and the Culture of Taste (2011), Ngugi wa Thiong'o (2004), Writing in Limbo: Modernism and Caribbean Literature (1992), and Maps of Englishness: Writing Identity in the Culture of Colonialism (1996),. He is also the editor of The Encyclopedia of African Literature (2009) and was editor of PMLA, the official journal of the Modern Languages Association (MLA), from 2011-2016.

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