Contingent Canons: African Literature and the Politics of Location by Madhu Krishnan

Contingent Canons: African Literature and the Politics of Location

Elements: Publishing and Book Culture

Madhu Krishnan

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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 Af...

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