Afropolitan Literature as World Literature

James Hodapp is Assistant Professor of English at Northwestern University in Qatar. He has published in ARIEL, The Global South, English in Africa, The Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, Short Fiction in Theory & Practice, African Studies Review, Wasafiri, The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies, and in several anthologies on world cinema and literature.

1. Introduction: Africa and the Rest
James Hodapp (Northwestern University, Qatar)
2. The Worlds of Afropolitan World Literature: Modeling Intra-African Afropolitanism in Yvonne Adhiambo Owuour’s Dust
Birgit Neumann (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany)
3. Strategic Label: Afropolitan Literature in Germany
Anna von Rath (University of Potsdam, Germany)
4. Afropolitanism and the Afro-Asian Diaspora in M.G. Vassanji’s And Home Was Kariakoo
Shilpa Daithota Bhat (Ahmedabad University, India)
5. "White Man's Magic": A. Igoni Barrett’s Blackass, Afropolitanism, and (Post)Racial Anxieties
Julie Iromuanya (University of Chicago, USA)
6. Toward an Environmental Theory of Afropolitan Literature
Juan Meneses (University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA)
7. How Afropolitanism Unworlds the African World
Amatoritsero Ede (University of the Bahamas)
8. Afropolitan Aesthetics as an Ethics of Openness
Chielozona Eze (Northeastern Illinois University, USA)
9. Fingering the Jagged Grain: Rereading Afropolitanism (and Africa) in Taiye Selasi’s Ghana Must Go
Aretha Phiri (Rhodes University, South Africa)
10. "Part Returnee and Part-Tourist": The Afropolitan Travelogue in Noo Saro-Wiwa’s Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria
Rocío Cobo-Piñero (University of Seville, Spain)
11. "Something Covered But Not Hidden": Obscurity in Teju Cole's Oeuvre as an Afropolitan Way of Worlding
Julian Wacker (University of Muenster, Germany)
12. The Hesitant Local: The Global Citizens of Open City and Americanah
Lara El Makkawi (American University of Beirut, Lebanon)

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