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Negotiating Africa Now
- Transition
- Indiana University Press
- Issue 113, 2014
- pp. 11-24
- Article
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Madhu Krishnan retraces how Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart helped inaugurate contemporary African literature as we know it, and examines the ways that contemporary African novelists are trying to smash the image of Africa as a monolith—even as their works sometimes play into efforts to stereotype what Africa “means.”