Africa Writes Back to Self: Metafiction, Gender, Sexuality
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Explores the metafictional strategies of contemporary African novels rather than characterizing them primarily as a response to colonialism.
Preface ixAcknowledgments xiiiIntroduction: Writing Back to Self 1Chapter 1 Genealogies and Functions of Self-Reflexive Fiction 27Chapter 2 (En)countering Sex in the Nationalist Canon 65Chapter 3 Potentials and Pitfalls of National Language Literatures 87Chapter 4 Orature and Deconstructed Folklore 107Chapter 5 Politicized Palimpsests and Gendered Intertexts 137Chapter 6 Painted Metaphors: The Gendered Deployment of Visual Arts 165Chapter 7 Refiguring (Out) Queer Sexualities 189Chapter 8 Gendered Theoretical Recalibrations 235Conclusion 255Notes 263Works Cited 293Index 321
