This book chronicles the rise and the development of postcolonial agency since Africa's encounter with Western modernity through African and African diaspora literature and film.
This book chronicles the rise and the development of postcolonial agency since Africa's encounter with Western modernity through African and African diaspora literature and film.
Table of Contents ACKNOWLEGDEMENTS * INTRODUCTION * I. THE ENSLAVED AFRICAN AND POSTCOLONIAL AGENCY * 1. Olaudah Equiano's The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, The African, Written by Himself; Haile Gerima's Sankofa (film); Amma Asante's Belle (film) * II. THE BLACK AMERICAN STRANGER AND POSTCOLONIAL AGENCY IN AFRICA: THE CONGO NARRATIVE * 2. The Anti-Enslavement/-Colonial Activist: George Washington Williams (1849-1891) * 3. The Postcolonial Pragmatist: William Henry Sheppard (1865-1927) * 4. The Other Allies * III. ARTICULATIONS OF POSTCOLONIAL AGENCY IN CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN LITERATURE * 5. The Colonial Encounter and Postcolonial Agency in Wole Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman and Dani Kouyaté's Keita! L'éritage du Griot (Film) * 6. Postcolonial Conjunctive Consciousness in the Literature of the New African Diaspora: Chris Abani's The Virgin of Flames, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah, Leila Aboulela's The Translator * CODA: Francis Abiola Irele and the African Imagination * BIBLIOGRAPHY * FILMOGRAPHY * INDEX *
Table of Contents ACKNOWLEGDEMENTS * INTRODUCTION * I. THE ENSLAVED AFRICAN AND POSTCOLONIAL AGENCY * 1. Olaudah Equiano's The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, The African, Written by Himself; Haile Gerima's Sankofa (film); Amma Asante's Belle (film) * II. THE BLACK AMERICAN STRANGER AND POSTCOLONIAL AGENCY IN AFRICA: THE CONGO NARRATIVE * 2. The Anti-Enslavement/-Colonial Activist: George Washington Williams (1849-1891) * 3. The Postcolonial Pragmatist: William Henry Sheppard (1865-1927) * 4. The Other Allies * III. ARTICULATIONS OF POSTCOLONIAL AGENCY IN CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN LITERATURE * 5. The Colonial Encounter and Postcolonial Agency in Wole Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman and Dani Kouyaté's Keita! L'éritage du Griot (Film) * 6. Postcolonial Conjunctive Consciousness in the Literature of the New African Diaspora: Chris Abani's The Virgin of Flames, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah, Leila Aboulela's The Translator * CODA: Francis Abiola Irele and the African Imagination * BIBLIOGRAPHY * FILMOGRAPHY * INDEX *
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