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African Literature in Transition

African Literature in Transition

Ogude, James
Kortenaar, Neil Ten

Hardcover

Series: African Literature in Transition

Fiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 1009662325
ISBN13: 9781009662321
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Nov 13 2025
Pages: 348
Weight: 1.40
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This book offers a compelling new approach to African literatures as formed by and itself a form of collective memory. It explores the historical spaces and maps that African literature brings to the surface and re-imagines in novel ways. The stories that matter about what happened in the past together constitute a collective memory that African writers and readers draw upon to locate themselves within the world. The book examines the mental maps that define the imaginative fields in which African literary texts have meaning. They provide answers to the questions that producers of texts must respond to: where stories are set, who writers write for, why writers write and how texts engage in meaning-making. It grapples with how writers imagine themselves contributing to a literary historiography and how readers get to understand the context within which texts are produced.

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