Mapping Models of Mutual Coexistence in African Literature

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Moving from the premise that African literature can introduce the reader to and inform him or her about the changing world of coexistence on the continent and elsewhere, this paper employs sample texts from contemporary African literature to explore the varying perspectives from which African writers represent changing historical phases of mutual coexistence on the continent in their works. It aims at showing how the literature reveals more about the "customs, conflicts, stresses, changes and transformations" (Ngugi 1997, p. 4) that accompany social movements and evolution over time. My paper argues that the African continent's historical encounter with the western world has primarily, at least in the literature I examine here, informed and transformed the ways in which people perceive and relate with each other in society. I use Ato Quayson's reading practice dubbed "Calibrations" in my analysis.

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