Title Eastern African literatures : towards an aesthetics of proximity / Russell West-Pavlov

Edition First edition Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 219 pages) : maps Series Oxford studies in postcolonial literatures in English Oxford studies in postcolonial literatures in English. Contents Cover; EASTERN AFRICAN LITERATURES: Towards an Aesthetics of Proximity; Copyright; PREFACE; Traditions, Places, Proximities; Structure of the Book; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CONTENTS; Introduction: Towards an Aesthetics of Proximity; An Aesthetics of Proximity; Modern Traditions?; Spatializing the Eastern African Canon; Notes; Part 1: Territories; 1: Coast; The Coast as Liminal Figure; Hybridity as Contiguity; The Proximity of the Past; Note; 2: Land; Antagonistic Proximity: Hoeing the Land; Undoing the Woman-Land Copula; A Pragmatic Proximity to the Land; Note; 3: Cities Understanding the Desegregated City; The City Novel: Failing Vision; The Proximate City; Note; Part 2: Histories; 4: Precolonial Histories; The Distant Precolonial Past; The Proximate Precolonial Past; The Multi-Proximate Past; Genres of the Proximate Past; Note; 5: Colonial Histories; Maji Maji in German East Africa; Mau Mau in British Kenya Colony; Mau Mau Hauntings; 6: Postcolonial Histories; Narratives of the Nation: Three Phases; The Epoch of Euphoria: Narrative Distance and Proximity; The Epoch of Disillusionment: Negative Synecdoche; Juxtaposition; Part 3: Communities; 7: Genders Circumcision and Feminine Selfhood; Keeping Men Apart; Emergent Proximities; 8: Migratory Identities; Precolonial Migratory Templates; Proximate South-South Migration; The Paradoxes of Migrating Identity; Note; 9: Eastern Africa in the Global South; The Near-South; Producing Proximity Across the South; Notes; Conclusion: Eastern African Literary Futures; New Media for Proximate Futures; Making Minor Futures; Local Time; Note; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX Summary The book offers an overview of Eastern African writing in English since the mid-twentieth century. It shows how proximate modes of literary communication, arising out of residual but vibrant traditions of oral communication, blend with contemporary media to produce hybrid genres of proximity specific to Eastern African literary production Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject East African literature (English) -- History and criticism East African literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. East African literature. East African literature (English) Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780192559999 0192559990

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