TY - JOUR
T1 - On the making of African literatures
AU - Zimbler, Jarad
AU - Bower, Rachel
N1 - Not yet published as of 06/10/2020.
PY - 2020/10/22
Y1 - 2020/10/22
N2 - MANUSCRIPTS AND SONGS. LETTERS AND ARCHIVAL SCRAPS. Inscriptions and book collections. Maps, machines, and crude oil. Each of the essays in this special issue looks to get a handle on an author, text, or set of texts by taking hold of something solid, tangible, sensuous. In his essay on Christopher Okigbo, Nathan Suhr-Sytsma attends to the poet’s compositional practice with an ear to his passion for music. Rachel Bower combs through editorial archives and correspondence to examine the ways in which Nigerian poetry has been made by anthologies. Asha Rogers re-reads Richard Rive’s short story ‘The Bench’ after looking into the author’s personal library...
AB - MANUSCRIPTS AND SONGS. LETTERS AND ARCHIVAL SCRAPS. Inscriptions and book collections. Maps, machines, and crude oil. Each of the essays in this special issue looks to get a handle on an author, text, or set of texts by taking hold of something solid, tangible, sensuous. In his essay on Christopher Okigbo, Nathan Suhr-Sytsma attends to the poet’s compositional practice with an ear to his passion for music. Rachel Bower combs through editorial archives and correspondence to examine the ways in which Nigerian poetry has been made by anthologies. Asha Rogers re-reads Richard Rive’s short story ‘The Bench’ after looking into the author’s personal library...
UR - http://camqtly.oxfordjournals.org/
U2 - 10.1093/camqtly/bfaa020
DO - 10.1093/camqtly/bfaa020
M3 - Article
SN - 0008-199X
VL - 49
SP - 193
EP - 211
JO - The Cambridge Quarterly
JF - The Cambridge Quarterly
IS - 3
ER -