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Proximate Histories: Entangled Temporalities in Contemporary African Fiction
By (author) Russell West-Pavlov
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This book explores how African fiction offers revolutionary models for understanding temporality and reimagining history in our catastrophe-ridden twenty-first century. Examining eight works from diverse African writers—ranging from Achebe’s classic Things Fall Apart, via works by Coetzee and Dangarembga, to contemporary novels by Makumbi, Mengiste, Mujila, Owuor and Serpell—the book demonstrates how these authors eschew linear Eurocentric historicism in favour of bold, immediate confrontations with history in the making and its temporal fabric. Drawing from fiction across Africa, the book proposes a composite theory of ‘proximate historiographies’ encompassing the entangled, plaited, expansive, interpellative, somatic, and kinetic temporalities that emerge from these pathbreaking works. Taken together, they reveal Africa as a laboratory of futurity rather than a place outside history. The volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of African literature, postcolonial studies, and contemporary fiction. It will also appeal to those working in environmental humanities, decolonial theory, and innovative approaches to historiography.
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Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published date | 22 May 2026
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 192
Dimensions | 234 x 156 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 0g
ISBN | 978-1-0412-8707-0
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BISAC | literary criticism / african
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Originally published in Italian: L'ordine del tempo (Milan: Adelphi Edizioni, 2017).
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