Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - The Rise of the African Novel: Politics of Language, Identity and Ownership - Book Release Announcement

Dear Prof. Falola,

Thank you. And I am looking forward to digging into your and Martin's massive (figuratively and at 1,300 pages literally) Palgrave Handbook of African Colonial and Postcolonial History.

Warmly,

Mukoma

On Friday, March 23, 2018 at 4:42:09 PM UTC-4, Toyin Falola wrote:

Dear Mukoma:

I look forward to reading your book…

I have been deliberately silent on recent responses to the Black Panther film, especially the deluge of praises on language and Pan-African narrative from those who have previously devastated Ngugi, Asante, and Senghor.

More later….

TF

 

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From: dialogue <usaafric...@googlegroups.com> on behalf of Mukoma Wa Ngugi <mukom...@gmail.com>
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Date: Friday, March 23, 2018 at 2:34 PM
To: dialogue <usaafric...@googlegroups.com>
Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - The Rise of the African Novel: Politics of Language, Identity and Ownership - Book Release Announcement

 

Dear Colleagues,

 

Just a quick note to let you know that The Rise of the African Novel: Politics of Language, Identity and Ownership University of Michigan Press) is being released this coming week on March 28^th, 2018.  In the book, I try to answer a series of questions: Why did Achebe's generation privilege African literature in English despite the early South African example of writing in African languages and then getting translated? What are the costs of locating the start of Africa's literary tradition in the wrong literary and historical period? And what does it mean for the current generation of writers and scholars of African literature not to have an imaginative consciousness of their literary past? 

 

While recognizing the importance of the Makerere writers and critics, I call for an African literary criticism and tradition that embraces its history of writing in African languages and for a broader African identity that is historically diasporic and presently transnational.  This is the first book to situate South African and African-language literature of the late 1880s through the early 1940s in relation to the literature of decolonization, and the contemporary generation of established and emerging continental and diaspora African writers.  Please visit: https://www.amazon.com/Rise-African-Novel-Ownership-Perspectives/dp/047205368X

 

The book will be released in Southern Africa, Western African and Eastern African markets later this year and early 2019.  The E-Book will be released this Wednesday.

 

Also of interest: An essay I wrote as an afterword to the German translation of Ngugi's Decolonising the Mind alongside Petina Gappah's and Sonwabiso Ngcowa's and the foreword by Achille Mbembe: https://lithub.com/mukoma-wa-ngugi-what-decolonizing-the-mind-means-today/.  The English version was published today by LitHub.com.

 

As always, thank you!

Mukoma

 

Mukoma Wa Ngugi
Assistant Professor of English
Cornell University
Co-Founder: Mabati-Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature
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