Transnationalism in Southern African Literature : Modernists, Realists, and the Inequality of Print Culture

This innovative study examines both Anglophone and lusophone African literature. Helgesson argues that the prevalence of colonial languages in postcolonial African literature is caused by the print network, demystifying their authority through the materiality of print, and placing emphasis on the strong transnational, transcontinental vectors of southern African literature.

Preface Acknowledgments Chapter One: World Literature, the Print Medium, and the Writing of Postcolonial Literary History Chapter Two: Shifting Fields: Imagining Literary Renewal in Itineràrio and Drum Chapter Three: Lewis Nkosi, Màrio Pinto de Andrade, Eugènio Lisboa - Beginnings in African Literary Criticism Chapter Four: Sing for Our Metropolis: Self and Media in the Poetry of Rui Knopfli and Wopko Jensma Chapter Five: Print and Colonialism in Southern African Realism Conclusion: African Literature Then and Now Appendix Notes Bibliography Index