African Literature and Us Empire: Postcolonial . Hallemeier, Hallemeier,**

Name: African Literature and Us Empire: Postcolonial . Hallemeier, Hallemeier,**
Brand: Edinburgh University Press

Edinburgh University Press

African Literature and US EmpirePostcolonial Optimism in Nigerian and South African Writing\nAuthor(s): Katherine Hallemeier\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Edinburgh University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Edinburgh University Press\nISBN-13: 9781399516174, 978-1399516174\nSynopsis\nPostcolonialism has long been associated with post-nationalism. Yet, the persistence of nation-oriented literatures from within the African postcolony and its diasporas registers how dreams of national becoming endure. In this fascinating new study, Hallemeier brings together African literary studies, affect studies and US empire studies, to challenge chronologies that chart a growing disillusionment with the postcolonial nation and national development across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The Nigerian and South African writings in African Literature and US Empire, while often attuned to the trans- and extra- national, repeatedly scrutinise why visions of national exceptionalism, signified .