Afropolitan Literature as World Literature

James Hodapp is Assistant Professor of English at Northwestern University in Qatar. He has published in ARIEL, The Global South, English in Africa, The Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, Short Fiction in Theory & Practice, African Studies Review, Wasafiri, The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies, and in several anthologies on world cinema and literature.

• 1. Introduction: Africa and the RestJames Hodapp (Northwestern University, Qatar)2. The Worlds of Afropolitan World Literature: Modeling Intra-African Afropolitanism in Yvonne Adhiambo Owuour’s DustBirgit Neumann (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany)3. Strategic Label: Afropolitan Literature in GermanyAnna von Rath (University of Potsdam, Germany)4. Afropolitanism and the Afro-Asian Diaspora in M.G. Vassanji’s And Home Was KariakooShilpa Daithota Bhat (Ahmedabad University, India)5. "White Man's Magic": A. Igoni Barrett’s Blackass, Afropolitanism, and (Post)Racial AnxietiesJulie Iromuanya (University of Chicago, USA)6. Toward an Environmental Theory of Afropolitan LiteratureJuan Meneses (University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA)7. How Afropolitanism Unworlds the African WorldAmatoritsero Ede (University of the Bahamas)8. Afropolitan Aesthetics as an Ethics of OpennessChielozona Eze (Northeastern Illinois University, USA)9. Fingering the Jagged Grain: Rereading Afropolitanism (and Africa) in Taiye Selasi’s Ghana Must GoAretha Phiri (Rhodes University, South Africa)10. "Part Returnee and Part-Tourist": The Afropolitan Travelogue in Noo Saro-Wiwa’s Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in NigeriaRocío Cobo-Piñero (University of Seville, Spain)11. "Something Covered But Not Hidden": Obscurity in Teju Cole's Oeuvre as an Afropolitan Way of WorldingJulian Wacker (University of Muenster, Germany)12. The Hesitant Local: The Global Citizens of Open City and AmericanahLara El Makkawi (American University of Beirut, Lebanon)Notes on ContributorsIndex

Afropolitan Literature as World Literature brings together a series of essays that inscribe and extend the contested concept of Afropolitanism and the emerging disciplinary formation known as World Literature. By putting these discourses in conversation and identifying convergences and divergences, this book challenges us to think beyond the limits and limitations of the current critical axioms that have taken the foreground. James Hodapp’s book opens a discursive space for critical thought and reflexivity on the worldliness of literary Afropolitanism.