Research Catalog

Title

African literature in the digital age : class and sexual politics in new writing from Nigeria and Kenya / Shola Adenekan.

Author

Adenekan, Shola

Publication

Suffolk : James Currey, 2021.

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Details

Description

205 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"The digital space provides a new avenue to move literature beyond the restrictions of book publishing on the continent. Arguing that writers are putting their work on cyberspace because communities are emerging from this space, and because increasing numbers of Africans use the internet as part of their day-to-day engagement with their societies and the world, Shola Adenekan explores this transformative development in Nigeria and Kenya, both significant countries in African literature and two of the continent's largest digital technology hubs. Queer Kenyans and Nigerians find new avenues for their work online where print publishers are refusing to publish short stories and poems on same-sex desire. Binyavanga Wainaina's rise to critical acclaim arguably started on the literary blog Generator 21. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's literary celebrity partly relies on her prolific use of social media to tell the story of powerful Nigerian women. With further examples from the development of literature across the continent, this innovative book sheds new light on narratives about digital Africa. It will also be the first major work to provide a trajectory of class consciousness in Kenyan and Nigerian writing. Through this analysis, the book articulates the difference in attitudes towards queerness, sexuality, and hetero-normativity among successive generations of writers." --Cover.

Series Statement

African articulations

Uniform Title

African articulations.

Subject

• Nigerian literature > History and criticism
• Kenyan literature > History and criticism
• African literature > History and criticism
• Literature and the Internet
• Online authorship
• African literature
• Kenyan literature
• Nigerian literature

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction : Kenyan and Nigerian Writers in the Digital Age -- Network Thinking : Literary Networks in the Digital Age -- Class and Poetry in the Digital Age -- Class Consciousness in Online Fictions -- Digital Queer : The Queering of African Literature -- Middle-Class, Transnational, Queer and African -- 'Ashewo no be job' : The Figure of the Modern Girl in the Digital Age -- The Erotic in New Writing from Nigeria -- Social Media and the Aesthetics of the Quotidian -- Conclusion : Connecting the Dots.

Call Number

Sc E 21-1272

ISBN

• 9781847012388
• 1847012388

OCLC

1233300824

Author

Adenekan, Shola, author.

Title

African literature in the digital age : class and sexual politics in new writing from Nigeria and Kenya / Shola Adenekan.

Publisher

Suffolk : James Currey, 2021.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

African articulations

African articulations.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Subject

Black author.

Research Call Number

Sc E 21-1272