Africa Writes Back to Self: Metafiction, Gender, Sexuality
The profound effects of colonialism and its legacies on African cultures have led postcolonial scholars of recent African literature to characterize contemporary African novels as, first and foremost, responses to colonial domination by the West. In Africa Writes Back to Self, Evan Maina Mwangi argues instead that the novels are primarily engaged in conversation with each other, particularly over emergent gender issues such as the representation of homosexuality and the disenfranchisement of...
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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
