Exchanges in Nairobi and Lagos: Mapping Literary Networks and World Literary Space
Exchanges in Nairobi and Lagos: Mapping Literary Networks and World Literary Space
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内罗毕和拉各斯的交流：绘制文学网络和世界文学空间
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2018
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K. Wallis
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K. Wallis
摘要：本文聚焦于出版商Kchifo在拉各斯为Eghosa Imasuen的《好男孩》(2011)举办的新书发布会，以及由内罗毕的夸尼信托公司为Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor的《尘埃》(2013)举办的新书发布会，本文概念化了一个文学网络的批评模式。通过这些案例研究，它探索了将文学事件解读为“多层表达的碎片(S)”(奎森21世纪)的潜力，通过这种阅读来探索作家和文本被创造和验证的关系和流程。通过绘制这些交流图，它认为有可能使可见的另类文学地理，并表明夸尼信托和法拉菲纳在形成泛非洲文学网络的基础上的重要性，21世纪非洲英语文学的空间、价值和文本都是从这个网络中获得材料的。
ABSTRACT:Focusing in on book launches hosted by publishers Kachifo in Lagos for Eghosa Imasuen’s Fine Boys (2011) and by Kwani Trust in Nairobi for Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor’s Dust (2013), this article conceptualizes a critical model of literary networks. Through these case studies, it explores the potential for reading literary events as “multilayered expressive fragment(s)” (Quayson 21) through which to explore the relationships and flows out of which writers and texts are created and validated. By mapping these exchanges, it argues it is possible to make visible alternative literary geographies and show the significance of Kwani Trust and Farafina in forming the foundations of a pan-African literary network out of which the space, value, and texts of 21st-century African literature in English are being made material.