An Afropolitan literary aesthetics?: Afropolitan style and tropes in recent diasporic African fiction

Ulla Rahbek; Eva Rask Knudsen

doi:10.1080/13825577.2017.1344473

An Afropolitan literary aesthetics? Afropolitan style and tropes in recent diasporic African fiction

Ulla Rahbek, Eva Rask Knudsen

Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies

7 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

This article discusses what the authors call an emerging Afropolitan aesthetics. Through an exploration of recurring stylistic features, the article focuses particularly on the trope of a mobility-induced anxiety that entwines place and self. The ontological and affective troping of return and of self-understanding and the contemporary signification of Africa as a complex place of relocation and reconnection are explored in discussions of literary characters in Taiye Selasi’s Ghana Must Go (2013), Yvonne Owuor’s Dust (2014), Sefi Atta’s A Bit of Difference (2013) and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah (2013).

Original language	English
Journal	European Journal of English Studies
Volume	21
Issue number	2
Pages (from-to)	115-128
Number of pages	14
ISSN	1382-5577
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/13825577.2017.1344473
Publication status	Published - 4 May 2017

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