Izazovi definisanja (post)kolonijalne afričke književnosti na osnovu odabira jezika književnog izraza

Abstract

The (post)colonial and (post)migrant experience of Africa is translated into oral and written testimonies that preserve the memory of the colonial past, the struggle for liberation, as well as the struggle for the sustainability of African identities in a (post)colonial world marked by new forms of colonialism, migration, nationalism, displacement and hybridization. These heterogeneities showed the need to explore whether and how it is possible to define contemporary (post)colonial African literature taking into account the multiplicity of languages in which it was produced. Relying on the works of theorists of African literary studies and the views of contemporary writers of African literature, this paper presents the complexity of unambiguously defining contemporary (post)colonial African literature through the analysis of three basic lines – the language of African literature, the identity of the African writer and the choice of the audience to whom it addresses.