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The Oxford History of the Novel in English

The Novel in Africa and the Caribbean since 1950

Edited by Simon Gikandi

Oxford History of the Novel in English

Situates and contextualize African and Caribbean fiction in relation to the history of genres, publishers and printing presses, and readerships
Offers an account--with reference to a range of novels over a 50-year period--of literary trends, techniques, canons and perspectives without losing a sense of the distinctiveness of particular authors
Reconsiders African and Caribbean fiction in relation to colonial discourse, to see the ways it is beyond the reach of colonial logic, and to place it within a global framework

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The Oxford History of the Novel in English

The Novel in Africa and the Caribbean since 1950

Edited by Simon Gikandi

Oxford History of the Novel in English

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Why did the novel take such a long time to emerge in the colonial world? And, what cultural work did it come to perform in societies where subjects were not free and modes of social organization diverged from the European cultural centers where the novel gained its form and audience? Answering these questions and more, Volume 11, The Novel in Africa and the Caribbean since 1950 explores the institutions of cultural production that exerted influence in late colonialism, from missionary schools and metropolitan publishers to universities and small presses. How these structures provoke and respond to the literary trends and social peculiarities of Africa and the Caribbean impacts not only the writing and reading of novels in those regions, but also has a transformative effect on the novel as a global phenomenon.

Together, the volume's 32 contributing experts tell a story about the close relationship between the novel and the project of decolonization, and explore the multiple ways in which novels enable readers to imagine communities beyond their own and thus made this form of literature a compelling catalyst for cultural transformation. The authors show that, even as the novel grows in Africa and the Caribbean as a mark of the elites' mastery of European form, it becomes the essential instrument for critiquing colonialism and for articulating the new horizons of cultural nationalism. Within this historical context, the volume examines works by authors such as Chinua Achebe, Nadine Gordimer, George Lamming, Jamaica Kincaid, V.S. Naipaul, Zoe Wicomb, J. M. Coetzee, and many others.

The Oxford History of the Novel in English

The Novel in Africa and the Caribbean since 1950

Edited by Simon Gikandi

Oxford History of the Novel in English

Acknowledgements

List of Contributors

General Editor's Preface

Introduction

Editorial Note

Part I: The Institution of the Novel in Africa and the Carribean

1. The Reinvention of the Novel in Africa
Simon Gikandi and Maurice Vambe

2. Cultures of Print in the Caribbean
Gail Low

3. The Novel and Decolonization in Africa
Mpalive-Hangson Msiska

4. The Novel and Decolonization in the Caribbean
Supriya Nair

Part II: Geographies of the Novel

5. The Novel in African Languages
Alena Rettovà

6. Expatriate Writers
Simon Lewis

7. The City and the Village: Geographies of Fiction in Africa
Jennifer Wenzel

8. Geographies of Migration in the Caribbean
J. Dillon Brown

PART III. The Novel and Cultural Politics

9. Women Novelists in Africa and the Caribbean
Elaine Savory

10. Gender and Sexuality in Caribbean Fiction
Alison Donnell

11. Gender and Sexuality and Africa Fiction
Brenna Munro

12. The Novel and Apartheid
Andrew van der Vlies

13. The Novel and Human Rights
Joseph Slaughter

Part IV: The Novel, Orality, and Popular Culture

14. Popular Fiction in Africa and the Caribbean
Jane Bryce

15. Oral and Popular Cultures in the African Novel
James Ogude

16. Oral and Popular Cultures in the Caribbean
Natasha Barnes

Part V. Styles and Genres

17. The Novel and History in Africa
Eleni Coundrioutis

18. The Novel and History in the Caribbean
Nana Wilson-Tagoe

19. Romance and Realism
Yogita Goya

20. Modernism and Modernist Fiction
Tim Watson

21. Autobiography and Autobiographical Fiction in the Caribbean
Sandra Pouchet Paquet

22. Autobiography in Africa
Kgomotso Michael Masemola

23. Short Stories in the Caribbean
Victor Ramraj

24. Short Stories in Africa
Antonia Kalu

25. Detective Fiction
Matthew Christensen

Part VI: New Frontiers

26. African Fiction in a Global Context
Peter Kalliney

27. Caribbean Fiction in a Global Context
Raphael Dalleo

28. Experimental Fictions
Evan Mwangi

29. The Novel in Translation
Shaden Tageldin

Part VII: Critical Understandings

30. The Novel and the Question of Language
Chantal Zabus

31. Criticism of the Novel in the Caribbean
Simon Gikandi

32. The Novel in Africa: Theories and Debates
Gaurav Desai

Composite Bibliography

Index of Authors and Primary Texts

General Index

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https://global.oup.com/academic/covers/pop-up/9780199765096

The Oxford History of the Novel in English

The Novel in Africa and the Caribbean since 1950

Edited by Simon Gikandi

Oxford History of the Novel in English

Situates and contextualize African and Caribbean fiction in relation to the history of genres, publishers and printing presses, and readerships
Offers an account--with reference to a range of novels over a 50-year period--of literary trends, techniques, canons and perspectives without losing a sense of the distinctiveness of particular authors
Reconsiders African and Caribbean fiction in relation to colonial discourse, to see the ways it is beyond the reach of colonial logic, and to place it within a global framework

$195.00

Hardcover

Published: 31 October 2016

608 Pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

ISBN: 9780199765096

Also Available As:

Ebook

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Connect with OUP

The Oxford History of the Novel in English

The Novel in Africa and the Caribbean since 1950

Edited by Simon Gikandi

Oxford History of the Novel in English

Description

The Oxford History of the Novel in English

The Novel in Africa and the Caribbean since 1950

Edited by Simon Gikandi

Oxford History of the Novel in English

Also of Interest

The Oxford History of the Novel in English

Thomas Keymer
The Victorian Geopolitical Aesthetic

Lauren M. E. Goodlad
Ideographic Modernism

Christopher Bush
The Oxford Handbook of Latino Studies

Ilan Stavans
The Oxford History of the Novel in English

Peter Boxall and Bryan Cheyette
Flappers and Philosophers

F. Scott Fitzgerald and Kirk Curnutt
Postcolonial Ecologies

Elizabeth DeLoughrey and George B. Handley
New Literary Voices of the Moroccan Diaspora

Ieme van der Poel
The Oxford History of the Novel in English

Ralph Crane, Jane Stafford, and Mark Williams
Reimagining Masculinity and Violence in 'Game of Thrones' and 'A Song of Ice and Fire'

Tobi Evans
Postcolonial Ecologies

Elizabeth DeLoughrey and George B. Handley
Final Frontiers

Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee
The Oxford History of the Novel in English

Coral Ann Howells, Paul Sharrad, and Gerry Turcotte
Joseph Conrad

David J. Supino
A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature

Sixth Edition

Wilfred Guerin, Earle Labor, Lee Morgan...
Kinship Across the Black Atlantic

Gigi Adair

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Arts & Humanities > Literature > Literary Texts > Novels & Fiction

Arts & Humanities > Literature > Literary Studies - World

Arts & Humanities > Literature > Literary Studies - Postcolonial Literature

Social Sciences > Regional & Area Studies > African Studies

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The Novel in Africa and the Caribbean since 1950

Edited by Simon Gikandi

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The Novel in Africa and the Caribbean since 1950

Edited by Simon Gikandi

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The Oxford History of the Novel in English

The Novel in Africa and the Caribbean since 1950

Edited by Simon Gikandi

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