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Tag Archives: Politics and African literature
Authentic Voices
Lindsey Green-Simms touches on an issue that I have noticed appearing in many of the readings we have read so far – discussions of authentic voice, and what makes a voice so. She refers to Adichie’s Jumping Monkey Hill and … Continue reading
Frederic Jameson’s famous “Third World Lit” thesis
We may or may not talk about this in class today, but at some point soon I’m likely to make reference to one of the most famous (and, of course, contentious) seminal essays about postcolonial literature and how it works: … Continue reading
“Between Rwanda and Mandela”
A fascinating analysis of how the West’s variously optimistic and pessimistic assessments of Africa are really part of the same discourse. We will likely be looking at Achebe’s scathing critique of (how we read) Heart of Darkness; I’m not surprised … Continue reading
Helon Habila on African fiction’s new “aesthetic of suffering”
One well-known articulation of an argument Aminatta Forna is pushing back against. Bulawayo’s novel, in my reading, is way savvier about this whole “poverty porn” thing than Habila gives her credit for. That said, Habila’s point about the way in … Continue reading
Aminatta Forna, “Where Are the West’s Political Novelists?”
A wonderful recent essay by novelist Aminatta Forna; I’m halfway through The Memory of Love and totally hooked. A provocative way of thinking about African fiction vis-a-vis “Western” fiction – lots of debates swirling around these days about how political … Continue reading
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