Contingent Canons

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Contingent Canons is written by Madhu Krishnan and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 110856030X (ISBN 10) and 9781108560306 (ISBN 13).

This Element explores the mechanisms through which 'African literature', as a market category, has been consecrated within the global literary field. Drawing on archival, textual and field-based research, it proposes that the normative story of African literary writing has functioned to efface a broader material history of African literary production located on and oriented to the continent itself.