How Long to Read Anglophone African Detective Fiction 1940-2020

How Long Does it Take to Read Anglophone African Detective Fiction 1940-2020?

It takes the average reader to read Anglophone African Detective Fiction 1940-2020 by Matthew J. Christensen

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Description

In moments of acute crisis in the relations between the individual and the state, African writers consistently turn to the detective genre to make sense of the problematics of sovereignty. Since the late 1940s, African writers including Cyprian Ekwensi, Arthur Maimane, Adaora Lily Ulasi, Hilary Ng'weno, Unity Dow, Parker Bilal, and Angela Makholwa have published over 200 murder mysteries, police procedurals, spy thrillers, and other fictional narratives of investigation and discovery in English-language newspapers, magazines, and novels. This book examines how African writers have transfigured an imported, Eurocentric literary form to interrogate postcolonial realities of selfhood and the state. It argues that African writers have turned the detective story into a highly productive, while at the same time suspense-filled and entertaining, mode of social and political critique, first of colonialism and the independence era and latterly of neoliberal governance. Offering an overview of paradigmatic texts, from Ghana to Kenya and Sudan to South Africa, the book traces the contours of the history of Anglophone African detective fiction that is at once a cultural history of a uniquely African assessment of the ongoing problematics of sovereignty and decolonization.

How long is Anglophone African Detective Fiction 1940-2020?

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How Long Does it Take to Read Anglophone African Detective Fiction 1940-2020 Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes to read Anglophone African Detective Fiction 1940-2020 aloud.

What Reading Level is Anglophone African Detective Fiction 1940-2020?

Anglophone African Detective Fiction 1940-2020 is suitable for students ages 2 and up.

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