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Author Adenekan, Shola, author

Title African literature in the digital age : class and sexual politics in new writing from Nigeria and Kenya / Shola Adenekan
Published Melton : Boydell & Brewer, Limited, 2021
©2021

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Description 1 online resource (205 pages) : illustrations
Series African Articulations Ser. ; v. Volume 9
African articulations.
Contents Introduction: Kenyan and Nigerian Writers in the Digital Age; Network Thinking: Literary Networks in the Digital Age; Class and Poetry in the Digital Age; Class Consciousness in Online Fictions; Digital Queer: The Queering of African Literature; Middle-Class, Transnational, Queer and African; 'Ashewo no be Job': The Figure of the Modern Girl in the Digital Age; The Erotic in New Writing from Nigeria; Social Media and the Aesthetics of the Quotidian; Conclusion: Connecting the Dots
Summary The first book-length study on the relationship between African literature and new media
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Nigerian literature -- History and criticism
Kenyan literature -- History and criticism
African literature -- History and criticism
Literature and the Internet.
Online authorship.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- African.
African literature
Kenyan literature
Literature and the Internet
Nigerian literature
Online authorship
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781787448582
1787448584