The Novel in Africa and the Caribbean since 1950 1st Edition Simon Gikandi

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• ISBN-10: 019976509X
• ISBN-13: 978-0199765096
• Author: Simon Gikandi

Why did the novel take such a long time to emerge in the colonial world? And, what cultural work did it come to perform in societies where subjects were not free and modes of social organization diverged from the European cultural centers where the novel gained its form and audience? Answering these questions and more, Volume 11, The Novel in Africa and the Caribbean since 1950 explores the institutions of cultural production that exerted influence in late colonialism, from missionary schools and metropolitan publishers to universities and small presses. How these structures provoke and respond to the literary trends and social peculiarities of Africa and the Caribbean impacts not only the writing and reading of novels in those regions, but also has a transformative effect on the novel as a global phenomenon.

Together, the volume’s 32 contributing experts tell a story about the close relationship between the novel and the project of decolonization, and explore the multiple ways in which novels enable readers to imagine communities beyond their own and thus made this form of literature a compelling catalyst for cultural transformation. The authors show that, even as the novel grows in Africa and the Caribbean as a mark of the elites’ mastery of European form, it becomes the essential instrument for critiquing colonialism and for articulating the new horizons of cultural nationalism. Within this historical context, the volume examines works by authors such as Chinua Achebe, Nadine Gordimer, George Lamming, Jamaica Kincaid, V.S. Naipaul, Zoe Wicomb, J. M. Coetzee, and many others.

Table of contents:

Part I: The Institution of the Novel in Africa and the Caribbean

1. The Reinvention of the Novel in Africa

2. Cultures of Print in the Caribbean

3. The Novel and Decolonization in Africa

4. The Novel and Decolonization in the Caribbean

Part II: Geographies of the Novel

5. The Novel in African Languages

6. The Expatriate African Novel in English

7. The City and the Village: Geographies of Fiction in Africa

8. Geographies of Migration in the Caribbean Novel

Part III: The Novel and Cultural Politics

9. Women Novelists in Africa and the Caribbean

10. Sexuality and Gender in the Anglophone Caribbean Novel

11. Sexuality and Gender in the African Novel

12. The Novel and Apartheid

13. The Novel and Human Rights

Part IV: The Novel, Orality, and Popular Culture

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