Nathan Suhr-Sytsma
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 99530 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Nathan Suhr-Sytsma |
| PRENOMES | Nathan |
| SOBRENOME | Suhr-Sytsma |
| ASSINATURA | SUHR-SYTSMA N |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Emory University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4696-107X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2012 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Transnationalism in Irish Literature and Culture
Transnationalism in Irish Literature and Culture offers a wide-ranging set of essays exploring the travels of Irish literature and culture over the last century and more. The essays focus on writers and artists whose work has been taken up and re-read overseas; on cultural producers who have engaged with transnational scales in their work; and on critical practices that pay attention to comparative, global, and planetary dimensions of Irish liter…
Introduction
Postcolonial literary studies has focused on narrative prose. We argue that the field would benefit from expanding this focus to poetics from the Global South. By utilizing the rubric of the Global South, we include decolonial thought from hispanophone and lusophone domains alongside postcolonial thought, often identified with the anglophone academy. Our approach to poetics foregrounds poetry as a literary form pertinent to the project of theoriz…
Forms of Interreligious Encounter in Contemporary Nigerian Fiction
Africanist scholars continue to debate how best to frame Christian-Muslim encounters. Examining literary fiction that portrays interreligious conflict and dialogue in northern Nigeria, Suhr-Sytsma opens up an exchange between social scientists and Nigerian writers including Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Uwem Akpan, Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, and E. E. Sule. Suhr-Sytsma argues that, as social thinkers, Nigerian writers explore interreligious solidarity th…
Forms of Interreligious Encounter in Contemporary Nigerian Fiction - Corrigendum
Reading for lyric in the African digital litmag
This article asks what we are reading for when we read poems in African-run literary magazines that are increasingly online. How can we begin to theorise the significance of publication and experience of reading in digital formats? In the wake of a debate in literary studies about lyric reading, the author suggests that reading African poetry in digital litmags gives us an opportunity to rethink how exactly poems are entangled with history – and …
The Poets
Theories of African Poetry
Lyric theory, reenergized and consolidated as a term by recent debates, largely takes for granted a set of American and European touchstones, while African literature is too rarely considered a source for theory. What might African poets writing in English have to teach us both about lyric poetry and about the role of race in literary theory? This essay considers theories of African poetry—theories about and arising from poems—under the rubrics o…
The extroverted African novel and literary publishing in the twenty-first century
This essay revisits Eileen Julien's seminal essay, 'The Extroverted African Novel' (2006), by way of twenty-first-century fiction by Nigerian writers. Since 2006, new Nigerian publishers have been publishing ambitious literary fiction that is arguably neither 'extroverted' nor 'introverted' but 'multifocal'. The essay sketches the trajectory of literary publishing in Nigeria in light of questions about the forms of local immediacy afforded by dif…
Poetry, Print, and the Making of Postcolonial Literature
Interview with Elnathan John
After a contextualizing introduction, the following interview with the Nigerian writer Elnathan John explores the relation of his work to some key themes of this essay cluster: religious belief, social life, and the literary representation thereof. It begins by discussing the reception of John's novel Born on a Tuesday in light of the differences between Boko Haram as an international phenomenon and the novel's more regional focus. John then expl…
Introduction
Introduction:Religion, Secularity, and African Writing Jeanne-Marie Jackson and Nathan Suhr-Sytsma Edward Said's apologia for "secular criticism," now more than three decades old, is at once an obvious and yet inescapable starting point from which to approach the question of the secular in postcolonial and area studies (Said 1–30). By "secular," Said meant that "texts are worldly, ... a part of the social world, human life, and of course the hist…
Ibadan modernism
This article traces the early careers of Nigerian writers educated in the 1950s at University College, Ibadan, through the appearance of their poetry in student magazines and limited-edition collections. Adapting Pascale Casanova’s concept of the literary present, it highlights what these published texts reveal about the position of modernist poetics in the literary system of the day. Ibadan modernism, it contends, emerged through aspiring writer…
Christopher Okigbo, Print, and the Poetry of Postcolonial Modernity
The poet and publisher Christopher Okigbo has often been interpreted in terms of a shift from "Euromodernist" to "oral African" poet, from alienated cosmopolitan to committed Biafran. Demonstrating a fresh approach to Okigbo that attends to the print contexts of his poetry and his own involvement with publishing, this essay argues that Okigbo was both engaged with national politics and situated in transnational networks throughout his career. Ena…
The extroverted African novel and literary publishing in the twenty-first century
This essay revisits Eileen Julien's seminal essay, 'The Extroverted African Novel' (2006), by way of twenty-first-century fiction by Nigerian writers. Since 2006, new Nigerian publishers have been publishing ambitious literary fiction that is arguably neither 'extroverted' nor 'introverted' but 'multifocal'. The essay sketches the trajectory of literary publishing in Nigeria in light of questions about the forms of local immediacy afforded by dif…
Reading for lyric in the African digital litmag
This article asks what we are reading for when we read poems in African-run literary magazines that are increasingly online. How can we begin to theorise the significance of publication and experience of reading in digital formats? In the wake of a debate in literary studies about lyric reading, the author suggests that reading African poetry in digital litmags gives us an opportunity to rethink how exactly poems are entangled with history – and …
Theories of African Poetry
Lyric theory, reenergized and consolidated as a term by recent debates, largely takes for granted a set of American and European touchstones, while African literature is too rarely considered a source for theory. What might African poets writing in English have to teach us both about lyric poetry and about the role of race in literary theory? This essay considers theories of African poetry—theories about and arising from poems—under the rubrics o…
Interview with Elnathan John
After a contextualizing introduction, the following interview with the Nigerian writer Elnathan John explores the relation of his work to some key themes of this essay cluster: religious belief, social life, and the literary representation thereof. It begins by discussing the reception of John's novel Born on a Tuesday in light of the differences between Boko Haram as an international phenomenon and the novel's more regional focus. John then expl…
Forms of Interreligious Encounter in Contemporary Nigerian Fiction
Africanist scholars continue to debate how best to frame Christian-Muslim encounters. Examining literary fiction that portrays interreligious conflict and dialogue in northern Nigeria, Suhr-Sytsma opens up an exchange between social scientists and Nigerian writers including Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Uwem Akpan, Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, and E. E. Sule. Suhr-Sytsma argues that, as social thinkers, Nigerian writers explore interreligious solidarity th…
Introduction
Introduction:Religion, Secularity, and African Writing Jeanne-Marie Jackson and Nathan Suhr-Sytsma Edward Said's apologia for "secular criticism," now more than three decades old, is at once an obvious and yet inescapable starting point from which to approach the question of the secular in postcolonial and area studies (Said 1–30). By "secular," Said meant that "texts are worldly, ... a part of the social world, human life, and of course the hist…
Ibadan modernism
This article traces the early careers of Nigerian writers educated in the 1950s at University College, Ibadan, through the appearance of their poetry in student magazines and limited-edition collections. Adapting Pascale Casanova’s concept of the literary present, it highlights what these published texts reveal about the position of modernist poetics in the literary system of the day. Ibadan modernism, it contends, emerged through aspiring writer…
Christopher Okigbo, Print, and the Poetry of Postcolonial Modernity
The poet and publisher Christopher Okigbo has often been interpreted in terms of a shift from "Euromodernist" to "oral African" poet, from alienated cosmopolitan to committed Biafran. Demonstrating a fresh approach to Okigbo that attends to the print contexts of his poetry and his own involvement with publishing, this essay argues that Okigbo was both engaged with national politics and situated in transnational networks throughout his career. Ena…
Ibadan modernism
This article traces the early careers of Nigerian writers educated in the 1950s at University College, Ibadan, through the appearance of their poetry in student magazines and limited-edition collections. Adapting Pascale Casanova’s concept of the literary present, it highlights what these published texts reveal about the position of modernist poetics in the literary system of the day. Ibadan modernism, it contends, emerged through aspiring writer…
Poetry, Print, and the Making of Postcolonial Literature
Interview with Elnathan John
After a contextualizing introduction, the following interview with the Nigerian writer Elnathan John explores the relation of his work to some key themes of this essay cluster: religious belief, social life, and the literary representation thereof. It begins by discussing the reception of John's novel Born on a Tuesday in light of the differences between Boko Haram as an international phenomenon and the novel's more regional focus. John then expl…
Introduction
Introduction:Religion, Secularity, and African Writing Jeanne-Marie Jackson and Nathan Suhr-Sytsma Edward Said's apologia for "secular criticism," now more than three decades old, is at once an obvious and yet inescapable starting point from which to approach the question of the secular in postcolonial and area studies (Said 1–30). By "secular," Said meant that "texts are worldly, ... a part of the social world, human life, and of course the hist…
The extroverted African novel and literary publishing in the twenty-first century
This essay revisits Eileen Julien's seminal essay, 'The Extroverted African Novel' (2006), by way of twenty-first-century fiction by Nigerian writers. Since 2006, new Nigerian publishers have been publishing ambitious literary fiction that is arguably neither 'extroverted' nor 'introverted' but 'multifocal'. The essay sketches the trajectory of literary publishing in Nigeria in light of questions about the forms of local immediacy afforded by dif…
The Poets
Theories of African Poetry
Lyric theory, reenergized and consolidated as a term by recent debates, largely takes for granted a set of American and European touchstones, while African literature is too rarely considered a source for theory. What might African poets writing in English have to teach us both about lyric poetry and about the role of race in literary theory? This essay considers theories of African poetry—theories about and arising from poems—under the rubrics o…
Reading for lyric in the African digital litmag
This article asks what we are reading for when we read poems in African-run literary magazines that are increasingly online. How can we begin to theorise the significance of publication and experience of reading in digital formats? In the wake of a debate in literary studies about lyric reading, the author suggests that reading African poetry in digital litmags gives us an opportunity to rethink how exactly poems are entangled with history – and …
Forms of Interreligious Encounter in Contemporary Nigerian Fiction
Africanist scholars continue to debate how best to frame Christian-Muslim encounters. Examining literary fiction that portrays interreligious conflict and dialogue in northern Nigeria, Suhr-Sytsma opens up an exchange between social scientists and Nigerian writers including Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Uwem Akpan, Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, and E. E. Sule. Suhr-Sytsma argues that, as social thinkers, Nigerian writers explore interreligious solidarity th…
Forms of Interreligious Encounter in Contemporary Nigerian Fiction - Corrigendum
Transnationalism in Irish Literature and Culture
Transnationalism in Irish Literature and Culture offers a wide-ranging set of essays exploring the travels of Irish literature and culture over the last century and more. The essays focus on writers and artists whose work has been taken up and re-read overseas; on cultural producers who have engaged with transnational scales in their work; and on critical practices that pay attention to comparative, global, and planetary dimensions of Irish liter…
Introduction
Postcolonial literary studies has focused on narrative prose. We argue that the field would benefit from expanding this focus to poetics from the Global South. By utilizing the rubric of the Global South, we include decolonial thought from hispanophone and lusophone domains alongside postcolonial thought, often identified with the anglophone academy. Our approach to poetics foregrounds poetry as a literary form pertinent to the project of theoriz…
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