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Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
October 2018
Print publication year:
2018
Online ISBN:
9781108641920

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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.

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‘… [Madhu Krishnan] makes a compelling argument for expanding and also questioning the dominant perspective of literary and book studies on canonization and African literature.’

Dorit Neumann - Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität

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