Stephanie Bosch Santana
Biographic Data
| ID | 220072 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephanie Bosch Santana |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephanie Bosch |
| FAMILY NAME | Santana |
| SIGNATURE | SANTANA S B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-3026-053X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Social media as new canvas, space, and channel for Afrophone literatures
Roundtable review of Shola Adenekan's African Literature in the Digital Age (2021)African Digital Literature by Invite Only
Shola Adenekan’s African Literature in the Digital Age, the first book-length treatment of African digital writing, characterises the digital age as ‘a new era of openness’ and ‘visibility’ for Afr
Matsotsi
Recent work on crime fiction has highlighted the genre’s increasingly transnational focus and the growing number of migrant detectives. Matsotsi , a little-known Nyanja text published in Zambia in the early 1960s, provides a much earlier example of this figure in Sergeant Balala, an Angolan detective fighting to contain the tsotsi menace in Johannesburg, South Africa. Matsotsi , however, does more than point to cross-border detection as a means o…
The Story Club
This chapter considers the role of literary clubs in the digital age, focusing in particular on how the Story Club-as-network connects to traditional publishing infrastructures, literary workshops and prizes, and online networks such as blogs and Facebook in both English and African languages. World systems approaches to the literary field have emphasized a singular, if uneven, global marketplace in which texts circulate and gain visibility and v…
From Nation to Network
This article argues that African digital fiction must be considered in relation to both virtual and material networks of production and circulation in order to understand its "place," literally and figuratively, in the broader literary landscape. Although there is a tendency to conceive of the Internet as a "placeless" and "global" space that is disconnected from specific locations, an examination of current serialized fiction from southern Afric…
Exorcizing the future
Afropolitanism is a term that has risen over and over again in recent popular and critical discourse despite efforts by many African writers and cultural critics to lay it to rest. Achille Mbembe popularized this term in academic discourse with his 2005 essay &s;Afropolitanism&s;, published in February 2005 in English in Africa Remix and in French in Africultures magazine at the end of the same year. In this essay, Mbembe defines Afropolitanism a…
Exorcizing the future
Afropolitanism is a term that has risen over and over again in recent popular and critical discourse despite efforts by many African writers and cultural critics to lay it to rest. Its haunting eff
Exorcizing the future
Afropolitanism is a term that has risen over and over again in recent popular and critical discourse despite efforts by many African writers and cultural critics to lay it to rest. Its haunting eff
From Nation to Network
This article argues that African digital fiction must be considered in relation to both virtual and material networks of production and circulation in order to understand its "place," literally and figuratively, in the broader literary landscape. Although there is a tendency to conceive of the Internet as a "placeless" and "global" space that is disconnected from specific locations, an examination of current serialized fiction from southern Afric…
Exorcizing the future
Afropolitanism is a term that has risen over and over again in recent popular and critical discourse despite efforts by many African writers and cultural critics to lay it to rest. Its haunting eff
Exorcizing the future
Afropolitanism is a term that has risen over and over again in recent popular and critical discourse despite efforts by many African writers and cultural critics to lay it to rest. Achille Mbembe popularized this term in academic discourse with his 2005 essay &s;Afropolitanism&s;, published in February 2005 in English in Africa Remix and in French in Africultures magazine at the end of the same year. In this essay, Mbembe defines Afropolitanism a…
From Nation to Network
This article argues that African digital fiction must be considered in relation to both virtual and material networks of production and circulation in order to understand its "place," literally and figuratively, in the broader literary landscape. Although there is a tendency to conceive of the Internet as a "placeless" and "global" space that is disconnected from specific locations, an examination of current serialized fiction from southern Afric…
The Story Club
This chapter considers the role of literary clubs in the digital age, focusing in particular on how the Story Club-as-network connects to traditional publishing infrastructures, literary workshops and prizes, and online networks such as blogs and Facebook in both English and African languages. World systems approaches to the literary field have emphasized a singular, if uneven, global marketplace in which texts circulate and gain visibility and v…
Roundtable review of Shola Adenekan's African Literature in the Digital Age (2021)African Digital Literature by Invite Only
Shola Adenekan’s African Literature in the Digital Age, the first book-length treatment of African digital writing, characterises the digital age as ‘a new era of openness’ and ‘visibility’ for Afr
Matsotsi
Recent work on crime fiction has highlighted the genre’s increasingly transnational focus and the growing number of migrant detectives. Matsotsi , a little-known Nyanja text published in Zambia in the early 1960s, provides a much earlier example of this figure in Sergeant Balala, an Angolan detective fighting to contain the tsotsi menace in Johannesburg, South Africa. Matsotsi , however, does more than point to cross-border detection as a means o…
Social media as new canvas, space, and channel for Afrophone literatures
Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · History (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Digital Games and Media (2 works) · History (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Media studies (2 works) · Zulu (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work)