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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I The enslaved African and postcolonial agency -- 1 Olaudah Equiano's The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, written by himself -- Haile Gerima's Sankofa (film) -- Amma Asante's Belle (film) -- II The Black American stranger and postcolonial agency in Africa: the Congo narrative -- 2 The anti-enslavement/-colonial activist: George Washington Williams (1849-1891) -- 3 The postcolonial pragmatist: William Henry Sheppard (1865-1927) -- 4 The other allies -- III Articulations of postcolonial agency in contemporary African literature -- 5 The colonial encounter and postcolonial agency in Wole Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman and Dani Kouyaté's Keita! l'héritage du Griot (film) -- 6 Postcolonial conjunctive consciousness in the literature of the new African diaspora: Chris Abani's The Virgin of Flames, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah, Leila Aboulela's The Translator -- CODA: Francis Abiola Irele and the African imagination -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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9781000532906 (electronic bk.) |
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