Postcolonial Agency in African and Diasporic Literature and Film

Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEGDEMENTS *

INTRODUCTION *

I. THE ENSLAVED AFRICAN AND POSTCOLONIAL AGENCY *

1. Olaudah Equiano’s The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, The African, Written by Himself; Haile Gerima’s Sankofa (film); Amma Asante’s Belle (film) *

II. THE BLACK AMERICAN STRANGER AND POSTCOLONIAL AGENCY IN AFRICA: THE CONGO NARRATIVE *

2. The Anti-Enslavement/-Colonial Activist: George Washington Williams (1849-1891) *

3. The Postcolonial Pragmatist: William Henry Sheppard (1865-1927) *

4. The Other Allies *

III. ARTICULATIONS OF POSTCOLONIAL AGENCY IN CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN LITERATURE *

5. The Colonial Encounter and Postcolonial Agency in Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman and Dani Kouyaté’s Keita! L’éritage du Griot (Film) *

6. Postcolonial Conjunctive Consciousness in the Literature of the New African Diaspora: Chris Abani’s The Virgin of Flames, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah, Leila Aboulela’s The Translator *

CODA: Francis Abiola Irele and the African Imagination *

BIBLIOGRAPHY *

FILMOGRAPHY *

INDEX *