Writing the Noncolonial Self: Modern African Literatures and the Politics of Subjectivity Jazz and sociopolitical terrain of today

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They daringly map a territory where poetry asserts our inexhaustible responsibility to one another

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Writing the Noncolonial Self: Modern African Literatures and the Politics of Subjectivity Jazz and sociopolitical terrain of todayHow African literary forms imagine ways of living and being within coloniality Writing the Noncolonial Self suggests a new way of thinking about the connections between politics, subjectivity, and literary practice. In this groundbreaking study, Alexander Fyfe reveals how African writers have used literary forms to reimagine subjectivity in new terms, a category of practices he calls the "noncolonial." Examining the work of a diverse set of