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Contingent Canons
African Literature and the Politics of Location
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 October 2018
Summary
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.
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- Online ISBN: 9781108641920Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication: 08 November 2018
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