Postcolonial Agency in African and Diasporic Literature and Film

Lokangaka Losambe is the Frederick M. and Fannie C.P. Corse Professor of English at the University of Vermont, USA.

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 *