Africa in What Age
Post-Global or Post-Rwanda
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13015220 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kwaku Larbi Korang (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 307-322 |
| Publication date | 2017-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2052-2614 • E-ISSN: 2052-2622 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/pli.2017.18 |
| OpenAlex | W2726863802 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
In “African Literature in the Post-Global Age” Tejumola Olaniyan is to be found asking: Where is the world at—and Africa with it? And for Olaniyan, the contemporary world is most ideally mapped as “post-global.” The purview of the post-global—its “field commonsense”—yields a world of humanity beyond the boundaries of nation, race, and territory, joined in commonalities of global need and planetary responsibility. What are the implications of the world thus known for Africanist literary practice? Can it rightly continue to be a particularist practice dedicated in restricted humanist service to Africa known in racialist, nationalist, and nativist particularity? Or ought Africanist practice to direct its humanism expansively to the service of a world in transnational and cosmopolitan linkage? Olaniyan wants Africanist literary practice to be post-global—and therefore universalist. But is Africanist literary practice well served in discarding the particular? This essay is guided in answer by Aimé Césaire’s caveat: “There are two ways to lose oneself: by segregation in the particular or by dilution in the universal.”
Art · Humanism · Humanity · Literature · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · World literature · African history and culture studies · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · History · Law · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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