Remapping African Literature

• Main Author: Ibironke, Olabode (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: African Histories and Modernities
• Subjects: African literature.; Africa-History.; Books-History.; Literature .; Literature, Modern-20th century.; Fiction.; African Literature.; African History.; History of the Book.; Postcolonial/World Literature.; Twentieth-Century Literature.

This book is an exploration of the material conditions of the production of African literature. Drawing on the archives of Heinemann's African Writers Series, it highlights the procedures, relationships, demands, ideologies, and counterpressures engendered by the publication of three major auth...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Introduction
• 1. The Commonwealth Impresario
• 2. The Literary Scramble for Africa: Selection and The practice of Hierarchies
• 3. The Seeds of the Series: Chinua Achebe and the Educational Publisher
• 4. Wole Soyinka: The Pan-African Literary Practice
• 5. Ngugi: Language, Publics, and Production
• 6. Postcolonialism: Dialectic of Autonomy and Determinism
• Conclusion.