The Routledge Handbook of African Literature is a one-stop publication bringing together studies of African literary texts that embody an array of newer approaches applied to a wide range of works.

Table of Contents

• List of contributors
• Introduction - Moradewun Adejunmobi and Carli Coetzee
• PART I: Mapping Political Agencies
• ‘Children of the Cold War’: Rethinking African literary generations through the global conflict - Monica Popescu
• Ethics and the politics of the ordinary in African literature - Chielozona Eze
• Globalisation, mobility and labour in African diasporic fiction - Anna-Leena Toivanen
• Towards an ethics of the humanitarian imagination - Allison Mackey
• PART II: Journeys, Geographies, Identities
• Decolonising the Afropolitan: Intra-African migrations in post-2000 literature - Rebecca Fasselt
• History, imperial eyes and the ‘mutual gaze’: Narratives of African-Chinese encounters in recent literary works - Ying Cheng
• Ethnicity in post-2000 African writing - Aghogho Akpome
• Mythopoesis of the self: Nation, textuality and the writer as political hero - Rotimi Fasan
• PART III: Working through Genres
• How to be a writer in your 30s in Lagos: Self-help literature and the creation of authority in Africa - Rebecca Jones
• Gothic supernaturalism in the ‘African imagination’: Locating an emerging form - Rebecca Duncan
• Contested filial voice in African female-authored autobiographies - Marciana Nafula Were
• ‘I can't go forward; I must go back’: Ben Okri's (p)anachronistic utopias - Ian P. MacDonald
• PART IV: The World of and beyond Humans
• African literature, audience and the search for the (non)human - Cajetan Iheka
• Dirty ecology: African women and the ethics of cultivation - Sarah L. Lincoln
• African fictions, animal figures and anthropocentric frameworks - Jesse Arseneault
• Depictions of Kenyan lands and landscapes by four women writers - Ng'ang'a Muchiri
• PART V: Everyday Sociality
• Geopolitical and global topologies in fiction: Islam at the fault lines in Africa and the world - Shirin Edwin
• Appetite and everyday life in African literature - Delores B. Phillips
• ‘Foundational fictions’: Variations of the marriage plot in Flora Nwapa's early Anglophone-Igbo novels - F. Fiona Moolla
• Drinking scenes: Alcohol in the Francophone African novel - Pim Higginson
• PART VI: Bodies, Subjectivities, Affect
• Desire and freedom in Yvonne Vera's fiction - Grace A. Musila
• The forms of shame and African literature - Naminata Diabate
• Scattered testimony: Locating the Rwandan genocide in transnational witnessing - Martina Kopf
• Contestations through same-sex desire in Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi's Kintu - Edgar F. Nabutanyi
• PART VII: Literary Networks
• The Story Club: African literary networks offline - Stephanie Bosch Santana
• Language and prizes: Exploring literary and cultural boundaries - Doseline Kiguru
• Publishers’ networks and the making of African literature: Locating communities of readers and writers - Kate Wallis
• Literary networks in the Horn of Africa: Oromo and Amharic intellectual histories - Sara Marzagora and Ayele Kebede