Francophone African Literary Prizes and the ‘Empire of the French Language’

Bush, Ruth; Ducournau, Claire

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“…Elsewhere (2016b) I take up the role of literary awards in canonising selected works of African literature, but in this case from the perspective of aesthetic qualities or literary taste criteria used by the award bodies. Ruth Bush and Claire Ducournau (2015) review the legacy of a literary prize for African literature in French in developing standards of literary value for Francophone African literature, as well as for France's own understanding of its relationship to postcolonial culture. Pushing back against the tendency to focus on the ability of prize institutions located in the global North to privilege certain types of African writing, Shirin Edwin (2016) points out how several of the short stories selected for the Caine Prize recently, actually aim to highlight strategies for evading control by powerful aid agencies engaged in humanitarian work on behalf of Africans.…”

Section: African Literature and The Awards Industrymentioning

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Routledge Handbook of African Literature

Adejunmobi¹,

Coetzee

2019

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The turn of the twenty-first century has witnessed an expansion of critical approaches to African literature. The Routledge Handbook of African Literature is a one-stop publication bringing together studies of African literary texts that embody an array of newer approaches applied to a wide range of works. This includes frameworks derived from food studies, utopian studies, network theory, eco-criticism, and examinations of the human/animal interface alongside more familiar discussions of postcolonial politics.The handbook is divided into seven parts: i) Mapping political agencies, ii) Journeys, geographies, identities, iii) Working through genre, iv) The world of and beyond humans, v) Everyday sociality, vi) Bodies, subjectivities, affect, vii) Literary networks. In each, contributors address the themes of the section from a variety of perspectives in conjunction with analysis of different literary texts. All chapters are original research essays written by a broad spectrum of scholars with expertise in the subject, providing an application of the most recent insights into analysis of particular topics or application of particular critical frameworks to one or more African literary works.The handbook will be a valuable interdisciplinary resource for scholars and students of African literature, African culture, postcolonial literature and literary analysis.

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Section: African Literature and The Awards Industrymentioning

confidence: 99%

Routledge Handbook of African Literature

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Coetzee

2019

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Francophone African Literary Prizes and the ‘Empire of the French Language’

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