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Eastern African literatures : towards an aesthetics of proximity
- Title
- Eastern African literatures : towards an aesthetics of proximity / Russell West-Pavlov.
- Author
- West-Pavlov, Russell, 1964-
- Publication
- Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018.
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Details
- Description
- xix, 219 pages : maps; 22 cm.
- Summary
- The book offers an overview of Eastern African writing in English since the mid-twentieth century. It shows how proximate modes of literary communication, arising out of residual but vibrant traditions of oral communication, blend with contemporary media to produce hybrid genres of proximity specific to Eastern African literary production.
- Series Statement
- Oxford studies in postcolonial literatures
- Uniform Title
- Oxford studies in postcolonial literatures in English.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Towars an aesthetic of proximity. -- Part I: Territories: Coast -- Land -- Cities. -- Part II: Histories: Precolonial histories -- Colonial histories -- Postcolonial histories. -- Part III: Communities: Genders -- Migratory identities -- Eastern Africa in the Global South. -- Conclusion: Eastern African literary futures.
- Call Number
- Sc D 18-628
- ISBN
- 0198745729
- 9780198745723
- 9780198745716
- 0198745710
- OCLC
- 1019613988
- Author
- West-Pavlov, Russell, 1964- editor.
- Title
- Eastern African literatures : towards an aesthetics of proximity / Russell West-Pavlov.
- Publisher
- Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Oxford studies in postcolonial literaturesOxford studies in postcolonial literatures in English.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 18-628