Contingent Canons
Author | : Madhu Krishnan |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 171 |
Release | : 2018-11-08 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781108560306 |
ISBN-13 | : 110856030X |
Rating | : 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Download or read book Contingent Canons written by Madhu Krishnan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-08 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Element explores the mechanisms through which 'African literature', as a market category, has been consecrated within the global literary field. Drawing on archival, textual and field-based research, it proposes that the normative story of African literary writing has functioned to efface a broader material history of African literary production located on and oriented to the continent itself.