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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Katherine HallemeierPublisher: Edinburgh University Press Imprint: Edinburgh University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.472kg ISBN: 9781399516167ISBN 10: 1399516167 Pages: 208 Publication Date: 31 May 2024 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAfrican Literature and US Empire is a study of imbricated exceptionalisms with implications for our understanding not only of anglophone writing from two of Africa's most powerful states, but also of the globalization of the American dream and the tenacity of the national as category of ongoing affective investment. Hallemeier is a careful reader and astute theorist able to harness the energies of affect studies to a powerful materialist critique of the reproduction of aspirations and inequities transported from the US to African contexts; in so doing, her study offers new ways of understanding the very categories 'postcolonial', 'post-independence', and 'neo-colonial'.--Andrew van der Vlies, University of Adelaide Author InformationKatherine Hallemeier is Associate Professor in the Department of English at Oklahoma State University. She is the author of J.M. Coetzee and the Limits of Cosmopolitanism (2013). Her research on contemporary anglophone African fiction has appeared in journals such as Comparative Literature, Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Modern Fiction Studies, and ariel. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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