Convivial Worlds

This book discovers everyday forms of conviviality in fiction and life writing from Eastern and Southern Africa. Through close readings of specific capacities of living with difference, the book excavates ideas of world-making, personhood and the possibilities of alternative social imaginaries from African perspectives.

Autorentext

Tina Steiner is Associate Professor in the English Department at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. She is the author of Translated People, Translated Texts: Language and Migration in Contemporary African Literature (2009), the co-editor of the bilingual travelogue In India and East Africa/E-Indiya nase East Africa by D. D. T. Jabavu (2020) and part of the editorial collective of the journal Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies.

Inhalt

1. Conviviality: Practices and Dreams of Living with Others 2. Dialogue and the Conference Space: D.D.T. Jabavu's Travelogue of his Voyage to India 3. Narrating Convivial Citizenship: Sophia Mustafa's Dilemmas 4. Curious Collaborations: Jamal Mahjoub's Genealogies of Convivial Scholarship 5. Keeping Alienation at Bay: Abdulrazak Gurnah's Convivial Wit 6. The Weight of the World