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Remapping African Literature

Part of the African Histories and Modernities Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-69296-8

ISBN: 978-3-319-69295-1

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Feb 13, 2018

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Introduction

Ibironke, Olabode

Pages: 1 –20

[African writers are operators of postcolonial transformation. They alter our perception of ourselves and of reality. More importantly, they transform regimes of taste and modes of reading, as well as the institutions and industries of cultural production. This work of transformation is however...
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The Commonwealth Impresario

Ibironke, Olabode

Pages: 21 –52

[A perfect historical context and illustration of postcolonialism, and of postcolonial theory of literary production in Africa as sites of overlapping mediations, presents itself in its intensity and contradictions in a little known memory of the saga of Bernth Lindfors working to preserve the...
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The Literary Scramble for Africa: Selection and the Practice of Hierarchies

Ibironke, Olabode

Pages: 53 –87

[In this chapter, I hope to show that Soyinka’s choice of publishing internationally of his own free will can be read dialectically alongside his strong opposition to those same publishing houses through the Hegelian aufhebung—a preservation that is also a supersession. The moment of his...
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The Seeds of the Series: Chinua Achebe and the Educational Publisher

Ibironke, Olabode

Pages: 89 –184

[Certain aspects of Chinua Achebe’s work align with Jacque Derrida’s compressed thought in the epigraph above. Achebe’s project has been described as affirmative in ways that clearly set it apart from, or put it at variance with, Derrida’s deconstruction. However, a glance through the lens of...
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Wole Soyinka: The Pan-African Literary Practice

Ibironke, Olabode

Pages: 185 –234

[The debate over the canon did not fully resolve the debate about the masterpiece. The term “masterpiece” seems to have survived the fraying of the canon, especially in art criticism, and more so in editorial criticism, perhaps because unlike canon, masterpiece retains the considerable appeal of...
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Ngugi: Language, Publics, and Production

Ibironke, Olabode

Pages: 235 –281

[Much of what constitutes postcolonial theory has been the effort of making the subaltern speak, of resurrecting the attenuated forms buried under the constraining authority of the colonial episteme and culture. Edward Said was the first to give new life, through postcolonial theory, to what in...
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Postcolonialism: Dialectic of Autonomy and Determinism

Ibironke, Olabode

Pages: 283 –303

[As we have seen, thought or philosophical discourse has as much determinate effect on the literary as does the materiality of production. In this chapter, I track the contours of the discourse on autonomy in African literature and culture in order to lay the groundwork for establishing the...
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Conclusion: The Auto-Heteronomy of African Literature

Ibironke, Olabode

Pages: 305 –313

[Accounts on the question of whether intellectual autonomy from colonial culture is desirable or even possible have tended to a pessimism, which we need not accept if we consider, as Remapping African Literature has demonstrated, the material agency of writers in exerting genuinely decolonizing...

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