Afropolitanism as critical consciousness
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's and Teju Cole's internet presence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2173095 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Miriam Pahl |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 73-87 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of African Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1369-6815 • E-ISSN: 1469-9346 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13696815.2015.1123143 |
| OpenAlex | W2225215003 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 13 |
Critiques of Afropolitanism that dismiss the concept because of its links to consumerism and commodification assume an unchallenging compliance of those considered as Afropolitans with dominant ideologies of consumption and the rule of capital. Considering Taiye Selasi's article 'Bye-Bye Babar', this seems plausible, but it is also a reductive interpretation that effaces the transformative potential of Afropolitanism. The literary works and online presence in public discourses of writers labelled Afropolitan show that they challenge and revise the present world order in the way that Walter Mignolo and other theorists of decoloniality envisage in their concept of 'critical cosmopolitanism'. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Teju Cole, for example, implement Afropolitanism as a critical assessment of global culture that defies a reduction of the concept simply to its commercial dimension. In their own ways, Adichie and Cole explore the affordances and the limitations of the internet, mobility and globalization
Aesthetics · Commodification · Consciousness · Cosmopolitanism · Epistemology · Globalization · Ideology · Media studies · Omnipresence · Political science · Politics · Sociology · African history and culture studies · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · South African History and Culture · Law · Philosophy
Eternal Blackness
“Reading and writing... loudly”
Lived Afropolitanism
This is Africa
The quest for epistemic freedom in African feminist theorizing
Johannesburg as a new Nineveh
Teju Cole
Afropolitan Projects
Afropolitanism and the search for identity in Africa
The Global Politics of African Identity
Afropolitan narratives and empathy
Bye-Bye Barack
Texts, talks and tailoring
Social diary and news production
Thighs Fell Apart
Afropolitan projects
The Postcolonial Cultural Industry
The Postcolonial Exotic
Decolonizing Post-Colonial Studies and Paradigms of Political-Economy
Anecdotes, Faits Divers, and the Literary
Black Beauty
The Many Faces of Cosmo-polis
Theorizing from the Borders
Cosmopolitanism with African roots. Afropolitanism's ambivalent mobilities
Transcultural affinity
Rethinking African culture and identity
| Unique citing works | 16 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,78 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |