Introduction: De-realization and the African Novel Part I: Afropolitanism and Literary Legitimacy 1. De-realizing Literary Form and Style Part II: De-Realization and the Aesthetics of Irrealism 2. Dissociation and Africa in the World 3. Street Lives and the Limits of Hustling 4. Detective Fictions in Submerged and Suspended Landscapes 5. Mutants and Contaminants in Afro-Futurist Irrealism Conclusion: Towards a Sustainable African Literary Future
Biography
Ashleigh Harris is Associate Professor of English at Uppsala University, Sweden. She has published widely on Zimbabwean and South African literature. Harris is currently leading the ‘African Street Literature and the Future of Literary Form’ research project at Uppsala University, which collects, archives, and analyses sub-Saharan literary forms that are produced and circulated outside of the formal publishing industry. Harris is also a participant in the ‘Cosmopolitan and Vernacular Dynamics in World Literature’ research project, based at Stockholm University.
