A01=Annalisa Oboe
A01=Elisa Bordin
Author_Annalisa Oboe
Author_Elisa Bordin
becoming
Category=DSBH5
Category=DSC
Category=DSK
Chris Abani
eq_bestseller
eq_biography-true-stories
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
Ethics
grotesque
human rights
Love
necropolitics
postcolony
transcultural
Violence
Product details
- ISBN 9781526147202
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 22 Feb 2022
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
This is the first full-length book on the work of ‘global Igbo’ writer Chris Abani. The volume dedicates a chapter to each of Abani’s fiction books, the two novellas Becoming Abigail (2006) and Song for Night (2007), the three novels GraceLand (2004), The Virgin of Flames (2007), and The Secret History of Las Vegas (2014), which are read against the grain of Abani’s most important essays and poetical production. By combining close readings and more theoretical reflections, this volume provides a significant insight for both scholars and students interested in the literature produced by the emerging African voices in the twentieth-first century, in the debate about human rights, and in general in how aesthetics is deeply linked with ethics.
Annalisa Oboe is Full Professor of English Literature and Postcolonial studies at the University of Padua, Italy
Elisa Bordin is Assistant Professor of American Literature at Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, Italy
