Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: Multiple Worlds, Material Culture & Language
- 2 Virtual Objects & Parallel Universes: Biyi Bandele's The Street
- 3 Everyday Objects & Translation: Leila Aboulela's The Translator & Coloured Lights
- 4 Possessions, Science & Power: Jamal Mahjoub's The Carrier
- 5 Words, Things & Subjectivity: Moses Isegawa's Abyssinian Chronicles
- 6 Breaking Gods & Petals of Purple: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus
- 7 An Abnormal Ordinary: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun
- 8 Conclusion: The Rifle is not a Penis
- Bibliography
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 April 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: Multiple Worlds, Material Culture & Language
- 2 Virtual Objects & Parallel Universes: Biyi Bandele's The Street
- 3 Everyday Objects & Translation: Leila Aboulela's The Translator & Coloured Lights
- 4 Possessions, Science & Power: Jamal Mahjoub's The Carrier
- 5 Words, Things & Subjectivity: Moses Isegawa's Abyssinian Chronicles
- 6 Breaking Gods & Petals of Purple: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus
- 7 An Abnormal Ordinary: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun
- 8 Conclusion: The Rifle is not a Penis
- Bibliography
- Index
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- A New Generation of African WritersMigration, Material Culture and Language, pp. i - viPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2008