Jens Frederic Elze-Volland: Precarity and Picaresque in Contemporary Nigerian Prose: An Exemplary Reading of Ben Okri’s The Famished Road Sola Ogunbayo: Border-Crossing Through Myth-Making: The Unbarred Muse in Selected Nigerian Literatureįella Benabed: Syncretic Worldviews in Wole Soyinka’s The Interpreters Part II: Dissidence, Absence, Transgression Catherine Kroll: Dogs and Dissidents at the Border: Narrative Outbreak in Patrice Nganang’s Temps de Chien Jennifer Wawrzinek: Addressing the Absent Other in J. Part I: Border Crossings, Precarity, Syncretism Sim Kilosho Kabale: Afropolitanism and Erudition in Francophone African Novels, 1994 – 2000 Makokha: Introduction: In the Spirit of Afropolitanism
Simon Gikandi: Foreword: On Afropolitanism This volume will be of interest to anyone with an interest in African studies, postcolonialism, cultural and literary studies. Coetzee, as well as Afrophone oral artists and radio performers. Dongala, Calixthe Beyala, Patrice Nganang, Nuruddin Farah and Abdulrazak Gurnah, to those of Pepetela, Goretti Kyomuhendo, Jamal Mahjoub, Yusuf Dawood, M. Together they map the rich terrain of culture, literature and folklore in contemporary Africa, from the works of writers such as Idris Chraibi, Wole Soyinka, Ben Okri, E. Individually they investigate such themes as identity, diaspora, hybridity, translation, the space between, textual frontiers, translocation and multilocalities, migration, nomadology, polylingualism, and multiculturalism. The essays collected here offer innovative and fresh critical perspectives on postcolonial themes within contemporary Africa. Negotiating Afropolitanism brings together scholars in African studies from across the world in order to critically examine the representations, transgressions, disruptions, and/or redrawings of borders and spaces in contemporary African literature, culture and folklore.