Titlebook: Africa‘s Narrative Geographies; Charting the Interse Dustin Crowley Book 2015 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2015 Ec

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,Place and Scale in Ngũgĩ’s “Universal Garden”,elations between the local and the global. Yet as the epigraph suggests, these lines for Ngũgĩ have not changed. The local/global dynamic has always been implied by Ngũgĩ’s anti-imperialist themes, existing alongside and within other tensions that have long occupied critics of his work, including th

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,Cosmopolitan Somalia: Place and Identity in Farah’s , and ,alia of SiyadBarre and errant patriarchal nationalism. In that early fiction, Farah challenged notions of both “Somali” and “Somalia,” along with the myths of linguistic, cultural, ethnic, and even biological unity purported by the Barre regime as the basis for the “natural” identity of Somali(a). A

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Conclusion: The Landscape of Geocritical Inquiry: Finding Common Ground for Geocriticism and Ecocrie flexible and conditional evaluations of author’s representations of geographic concerns like “Africa,” the nation, globalization, borders, and urbanization. Broadly speaking, such a project is an answer to the predominance of a postmodern mind-set in much spatial, postcolonial, and African literar

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,“My Black Land”: Senghor’s Construction of “Africa”, “Africa” itself as a place conjured in Senghor’s prose and poetry, and how such a place interacts with other geographies like imperial and African nations. To be sure, Senghor was not the first to cast the continent together as “a place,” as singular (and singularly negative) evaluations of the con

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,Half Slum, Half Paradise: Abani’s Global Cities, (especially marginalized) urban spaces as places of vitality and value, engendering possibilities for alterity that exist alongside of—and perhaps arise out of—the hardships of city life. Refracted through cities as diverse yet connected as London, Los Angeles, and Lagos, Abani’s ambivalent represe