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Debating the Afropolitan

This volume evaluates the vitality of the term Afropolitan within the fields of African and Afro- diasporic studies. A hotly debated and malleable term, its wide circulation has allowed for Afropolitanism to become a contested space for critical inquiry. The contributions to this book are representative of the lively discussions that Afropolitan aesthetics, identity politics and Afro(cosmo)politanisms have sparked in recent years. The book aims to continue the debates around these concepts foregrounded by earlier works in the fields of postcolonial literature, African cultural studies, and studies of diaspora and transnationalism. This book was originally published as a special issue of the European Journal of English Studies.

Emilia Mara Durn-Almarza is Associate Professor of English at the University of Oviedo, Spain. She specializes in postcolonial literatures and gender studies, with an interest in the performative and literary productions of contemporary African Diasporas.

Ananya Jahanara Kabir is Professor of English Literature at Kings College London, UK. She works on memory, embodiment, transnationalism, and post- trauma across the global South, and is especially interested in the relationship between texts, dance, and music within urban African and African diasporic contexts.

Carla Rodrguez Gonzlez is Associate Professor of English at the University of Oviedo, Spain. Her research fields include gender and postcolonial studies, as well as contemporary Scottish literature.

Debating the Afropolitan

Edited by
Emilia Mara Durn-Almarza,
Ananya Jahanara Kabir and
Carla Rodrguez Gonzlez

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Contents

Emilia Mara Durn- Almarza, Ananya Jahanara Kabir and Carla Rodrguez Gonzlez

Eva Rask Knudsen and Ulla Rahbek

Patricia Bastida-Rodrguez

Aretha Phiri

Isabel Carrera-Surez

Miasol Egubar Holgado

Anna-Leena Toivanen

The chapters in this book were originally published in the European Journal of English Studies, volume 21, issue 2 (August 2017). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:

Introduction

Debating the Afropolitan

Emilia Mara Durn-Almarza, Ananya Jahanara Kabir and Carla Rodrguez Gonzlez

European Journal of English Studies, volume 21, issue 2 (August 2017) pp. 107114

Chapter 1

An Afropolitan literary aesthetics? Afropolitan style and tropes in recent diasporic African fiction

Eva Rask Knudsen and Ulla Rahbek

European Journal of English Studies, volume 21, issue 2 (August 2017) pp. 115128

Chapter 2

Afropolitan in their own way? Writing and self-identification in Aminatta Forna and Chika Unigwe

Patricia Bastida-Rodrguez

European Journal of English Studies, volume 21, issue 2 (August 2017) pp. 129143

Chapter 3

Lost in translation: re-reading the contemporary Afrodiasporic condition in Taiye Selasis Ghana Must Go

Aretha Phiri

European Journal of English Studies, volume 21, issue 2 (August 2017) pp. 144158

Chapter 4

Negotiating singularity and alikeness: Esi Edugyan, Lawrence Hill and Canadian Afrodiasporic writing

Isabel Carrera-Surez

European Journal of English Studies, volume 21, issue 2 (August 2017) pp. 159173

Chapter 5

Transforming the body, transculturing the city: Nalo Hopkinsons fantastic Afropolitans

Miasol Egubar Holgado

European Journal of English Studies, volume 21, issue 2 (August 2017) pp. 174188

Chapter 6

Cosmopolitanisms new clothes? The limits of the concept of Afropolitanism

Anna-Leena Toivanen

European Journal of English Studies, volume 21, issue 2 (August 2017) pp. 189205

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Patricia Bastida-Rodrguez is Associate Professor of English at the University of the Balearic Islands, Spain. Her current research focuses on gender and ethnicity in contemporary diasporic fiction in English, particularly that produced in the twenty-first century.

Isabel Carrera-Surez is Professor in English at the University of Oviedo, Spain. Her research interests include transculturalism, diasporic writing, Canadian, Caribbean and Australian literature and gender studies.

Emilia Mara Durn-Almarza is Associate Professor of English at the University of Oviedo, Spain. She specializes in postcolonial literatures and gender studies, with a special interest in the performative and literary productions of contemporary African Diasporas.

Miasol Egubar Holgado teaches English at the University of Oviedo, Spain. Her research interests include Canadian literature, Caribbean-Canadian literature, postcolonial studies, gender studies, and diaspora studies.

Ananya Jahanara Kabir is Professor of English Literature at Kings College London, UK. She works on memory, embodiment, transnationalism, and post-trauma across the global South, and is especially interested in the relationship between texts, dance, and music within urban African and African diasporic contexts.

Aretha Phiri is a lecturer in the Department of Literary Studies in English at Rhodes University and a research fellow at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS), South Africa. Her research broadly interrogates intersectionalities of race, ethnicity, culture, gender, and sexuality/ies in comparative, transatlantic and transnational, considerations of identity and subjectivity, with a focus on (African-) American and (contemporary) African diaspora literature.

Ulla Rahbek is Associate Professor in the Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Her research and teaching expertise include postcolonial and contemporary British multicultural literatures.

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