Name: At Penpoint: African Literatures, Postcolonial Studies, and the Cold War (en Inglés)
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Author: Popescu, Monica
ISBN: 9781478008514

portada At Penpoint: African Literatures, Postcolonial Studies, and the Cold War (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Monica Popescu

Editorial

Duke University Press

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

272

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

22.9 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm

Peso

0.53 kg.

ISBN13

9781478008514

Categorías

África
Historia y crítica literaria

At Penpoint: African Literatures, Postcolonial Studies, and the Cold War (en Inglés)

Monica Popescu (Autor) · Duke University Press · Tapa Dura

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Reseña del libro "At Penpoint: African Literatures, Postcolonial Studies, and the Cold War (en Inglés)"

In At Penpoint Monica Popescu traces the development of African literature during the second half of the twentieth century to address the intertwined effects of the Cold War and decolonization on literary history. Popescu draws on archival materials from the Soviet-sponsored Afro-Asian Writers Association and the CIA-funded Congress for Cultural Freedom alongside considerations of canonical literary works by Ayi Kwei Armah, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Ousmane Sembène, Pepetela, Nadine Gordimer, and others. She outlines how the tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union played out in the aesthetic and political debates among African writers and intellectuals. These writers decolonized aesthetic canons even as superpowers attempted to shape African cultural production in ways that would advance their ideological and geopolitical goals. Placing African literature at the crossroads of postcolonial theory and studies of the Cold War, Popescu provides a new reassessment of African literature, aesthetics, and knowledge production.