Re-Reading Tragic Africa

Amy Rushton is Senior Lecturer in English at Nottingham Trent University, UK. They have over a decade of teaching experience and have published numerous articles on African literature, neoliberalism, and contemporary cultural representations of mental distress. Amy is currently Chair of the Board for the National Survivor User Network (NSUN).

• 1. Introduction: The Danger of the Single Reading.- 2. Reading Africa in the Neoliberal World-System.- 3. The Longer Walk to Freedom: South African Prophecy and Neoliberal Intervention upon ‘Tragic Africa’.- 4. ‘Africa awaits its creators’: Subverting Development Narratives.- 5. Back to Utopia: Retrieving the Past to Reclaim the Future.- 6. Conclusion: Towards a Kind of Paradise.