China in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century African Literature

Duncan M. Yoon is an assistant professor at New York University. He was a Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress and a Fulbright Scholar to South Korea. He chaired the forum, African Literature to 1990, at the Modern Language Association.

• Introduction: African literary imaginaries of China; 1. Kofi Awoonor imagines China: the Longue Durée of Ghana – PRC relations; 2. Figures of extraction: representations of mining in Ghana and Zambia; 3. Figures of risk: memoirs of a Chinese South African and a Cameroonian in China; 4. Racialization and Afro-Chinese identity: Henri Lopès's Le lys et le flamboyant; Conclusion: forming Afro-Chinese worlds.

'Focusing on China's imaginaries in African literature, Yoon's new monograph powerfully recalibrates African literary criticism, postcolonial studies, and world literature. The resulting work is brilliantly argued and conceptually innovative. With his signal concept-alluvial form-Yoon compellingly demonstrates the value of the humanities and cultural forms for understanding and reimagining Africa-China relations. This book is delightful as it is impactful.' Cajetan Iheka, Professor of English, Yale University