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Bloomsbury Irony, Agency and the Global Imaginary in Post-2000 Nigerian and Kenyan Literature (Black Literary and Cultural Expressions)

Name: Irony, Agency and the Global Imaginary in Post-2000 Nigerian and Kenyan Literature (Black Literary and Cultural Expressions)
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An examination of alternate imaginaries of â€˜the globalâ€™ in post-millennium anglophone African literature and the differing forms of agency that these imaginaries produce. Irony, Agency and the Global Imaginary in Post-2000 Nigerian and Kenyan Literature provides deft and detailed readings of writersâ€™ perspectives that theorize â€˜the globalâ€™ as experienced through vectors of globality such as the tourism industry, development agencies, multinational media, NGOs and consumerism. Penny Cartwright develops a conceptual distinction between two types of global imaginaries: â€˜territorialâ€™ imaginaries that treat privileged spaces or locations as â€˜globalâ€™, thus demanding strategies of physical access and mobility; and â€˜orientationalâ€™ imaginaries that treat â€˜globalityâ€™ as a disposition or attitude that individuals perform or embody. Drawing detailed case studies from the work of Ngugi wa Thiongo and Binyavanga Wainaina (Kenya), Chris Abani, Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani and A. Igoni Barrett (Nigeria), Cartwright shows how these different kinds of imaginaries are combined, contrasted and ironized in literary texts. By analyzing Africa-based representations of â€˜the globalâ€™, from the millennium period onward, this book considers how global imaginaries are shaped by and inflect distinctive regional experiences, including of postcoloniality, Structural Adjustment, oil economics, multilingualism and humanitarianism. Departing from more extensive recent scholarship on migration narratives, the book contributes insights into literary engagements of â€˜the globalâ€™ that arise from Nigerian and Kenyan national spaces and circumstances. It explores the narrative strategies through which alternate ideas of the global are represented, with particular emphasis on ironizing strategies, as well as the kinds of personal and political responses that the various imaginaries produce in characters.

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Brand: Bloomsbury
Format: hardcover
ASIN: B0F5Q7VN12
Category: Books > Subjects > Poetry, Drama & Criticism > History & Criticism > Literary Theory & Movements
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Release Date: 05 March 2026
Listed Since: 22 April 2025

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