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Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield International, [2016]

1 online resource (327 pages)

ISBN 9781783483556 (e-book)

ISBN 9781783483532 (cloth : alk. paper)

ISBN 9781783483549 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Print version: Knudsen, Eva Rask. In search of the Afropolitan : encounters, conversations and contemporary diasporic African literature. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield International, [2016] ISBN 9781783483532

Includes bibliographical references and index

Opening: in search of the Afropolitan -- Afropolitanism: a contested field and its trajectories: the authors in conversation with Simon Gikandi -- The vexed question of mobility -- Here, there, and elsewhere: the unhinging of home and belonging -- "Africans of the world" and the politics of (re-)connection: the authors in conversation with Kwame Anthony Appiah, Minna Salami, Emma Dabiri, and Asta Busingye Lydersen -- The authors in conversation with Sefi Atta, Chika Unigwe, and Brian Chikwava -- Sharing and caring: storytelling and Afropolitan communities -- A complex weave: "race," gender, and Afropolitan love -- Less-fortunate Afropolitans, "lapsed Africans," and class conundrums, a statement by Taiye Selasi -- Endnotes: Afropolitan narratives, tropes, and styles.

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(OCoLC)953380288