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Chris Abani
eBook - Contemporary World Writers
ISBN/EAN: 9781526147196
Umbreit-Nr.: 6351763
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 296 S.
Format in cm:
Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 22.02.2022
Auflage: 1/2022
E-Book
Format: EPUB
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- This is the first full-length book on the work of global Igbo writer Chris Abani. The volume dedicates a chapter to each of Abanis fiction books, the two novellas<i>Becoming Abigail</i> (2006) and<i>Song for Night</i> (2007), the three novels<i>GraceLand</i> (2004),<i>The Virgin of Flames</i> (2007), and<i>The Secret History of Las Vegas</i>(2014), which are read against the grain of Abanis most important essays and poetical production. By combining close readings and more theoretical reflections, this volume provides a significant insight for both scholars and students interested in the literature produced by the emerging African voices in the twentieth-first century, in the debate about human rights, and in general in how aesthetics is deeply linked with ethics.
- Kurztext
- Touching on global issues such as violence, sexual abuse, gender, performativity, marginality, migration and human rights, Abanis work testifies to the centrality of his literary voice in the contemporary literary panorama. This book shows how aesthetics overlaps with ethics and how forms of extreme abuse may coexist with love and redemption.
- Autorenportrait
- <p>Annalisa Oboe is Full Professor of English Literature and Postcolonial studies at the University of Padua, Italy<br><br>Elisa Bordin is Assistant Professor of American Literature at Ca Foscari University, Venice, Italy</p>