Panel 2

Theme: Achebe and the Politics of Canonicity
Date
Sep 29, 2023, 11:10 am12:55 pm

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Event Description

This panel aims to reflect on the conditions governing Achebe’s canonicity and their implications in the current literary landscape. What exact factors enabled Achebe’s canonicity and has/does it manifest? In what ways does it lend itself to or is undermined by reductive and exoticist circulations of Achebe’s work? Does the label ‘father of modern African literature’ hold and how do we make sense of the African texts and readerships untouched by questions of Western canonicity?

Panelists

Dr. Simon Gikandi – Princeton University

Dr. Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi – NC State University

Dr. Ranka Primorac – University of Southampton

Dr. Meg Arenberg – The Africa Institute, Sharjah

Discussant: Dr. Terri Ochiagha – University of Edinburgh

 

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                                                               Dr. Ranka Primorac and Dr. Meg Arenberg 

Dr Terri Ochiagha

                                                               Dr. Terri Ochiagha   

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                                                               Dr. Simon Gikandi   

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                                                               Dr. Terri Ochiagha   

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                                                               Dr. Ranka Primorac 

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                                                               Dr. Meg Arenberg 

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                                                               Dr. Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi  

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Dr. Ranka Primorac, Dr. Meg Arenberg, Dr. Terri Ochiagha, Dr.Simon Gikandi, and Dr. Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi 

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Dr. Ranka Primorac, Dr. Meg Arenberg, Dr. Terri Ochiagha, Dr.Simon Gikandi, and Dr. Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi