Beyond the Afropolitan Postnation

The Contemporaneity of Jennifer Makumbi's Kintu

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ID9250758
AuthorsBwesigye Bwa Mwesigire Bwesigye Bwa Mwesigire, Bwesigye Bwa Mwesigire (0000-0002-8391-3408, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume49
Issue1
Pages103
Publication date2018-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueResearch in African Literatures (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0034-5210 • E-ISSN: 1527-2044
PublisherIndiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2979/reseafrilite.49.1.07
OpenAlexW2857374383
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited5

For several decades, literature produced by Africans has been read as postcolonial and nationalist. The study of the impact of colonialism on the colonized permeated African literary criticism from the 1960s. With the attainment of independence for many African countries, the lens changed to the search for the nationalist interests of the writers in their works. Newer African literary criticism contends that contemporary African writing eludes these two approaches. Helon Habila describes contemporary African writers as postnationalist. This article engages with the content of the postnation and finds that it is currently dominated by a bias for the Afropolitan. The article questions the inclusiveness of Afropolitan postnationalism through a reading of Jennifer Makumbi’s Kintu and argues for a more inclusive, contemporaneous postnationalism

Art · African history and culture studies · History · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · South African History and Culture

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