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    Intricate Fictions: Cartography and the Contemporary African Novel

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    Genre
    Thesis/Dissertation
    Date
    2014
    Author
    Cesare, Nicole L.
    Advisor
    Gauch, Suzanne, 1965-
    Committee member
    Lee, Sue-Im, 1969-
    Gordon, Lewis R. (Lewis Ricardo), 1962-
    Jaji, Tsitsi
    Department
    English
    Subject
    African Literature
    Cartography
    Globalization Studies
    Mapping
    Novel Studies
    Postcolonial Theory
    Space
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    http://dx.doi.org/10.34944/dspace/2656
    Abstract
    Intricate Fictions: Cartography and the Contemporary African Novel examines the relationship between narrative and mapping practices in recent African novels. Considering the continent's well-documented history as a site of cartographical projection, I ask how its literary output remaps this space in the years following colonial rule. This project responds to calls for increased attentiveness to space in African literature, employing an interdisciplinary methodology that puts critical cartography into conversation with African literary criticism and globalization studies. I trace a trajectory from post-independence novels writing against colonial depictions of the continent to contemporary novels interested in engaging the instability concomitant with globalization and its attendant diasporas, migrations, and challenges to epistemological categories such as the nation. These novels develop what I term dynamic cartography, a mode of space-writing characterized by fluidity, disjunction, and mobility. This study brings to the fore a corpus of works that embody the spatial tensions of the contemporary era, raising provocative questions about our metageographical and cartographical tendencies. As absolute frameworks of time and space give way, new modes of space-writing continue to blur the boundaries between the map and the novel, offering further avenues of analysis. Ultimately, I pursue these avenues in order to contend that as global space becomes increasingly dynamic, so too do the genres that represent that global space. Contemporary African novels, composed with a profound awareness of geographical transformation, are thus also positioned at the forefront of generic transformation.
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