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Chris Abani

  • 21 Citations
1985 …2017
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Research Interests

African Poetics, World Literature, 20th Century British and American Literature, African Presences in Medieval and Renaissance Cultural Spaces, The Architecture of Cities and their Potential Symbiotic Relationship with their Populations, West African Music, Postcolonial and Transnational Theory, Robotics and Consciousness, Yoruba and Igbo Philosophy and Religion.

Education/Academic qualification

Gender, Society, and Culture, MA, Birkbeck College, University of London

English and Literary Studies, BA, Imo State University

Literature and Creative Writing, PhD, University of Southern California

English, MA, University of Southern California

Keywords

  • Creative writing
  • The novel
  • Twentieth century literature
  • Poetics and poetry
  • Gender Studies
  • Postcolonial literature
  • African literature

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Research Output 1985 2017

An Introduction in Two Movements

Abani, C. 2017 New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Nne). Dawes, K. & Abani, C. (eds.). Brooklyn, NY

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Foreword/postscript

Foreword

Abani, C. 2017 The University of Hip-Hop. Northwestern University Press, (Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize)

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Foreword/postscript

Foreword

Abani, C. 2017 Nowhere to Arrive. Northwestern University Press, (Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize)

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Foreword/postscript

An Introduction in Two Movements

Abani, C. 2016 New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Tatu). Dawes, K. & Abani, C. (eds.). Brooklyn, NY: Akashic Books

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Foreword/postscript

Breakfast

Abani, C. 2016 In : Prairie Schooner. 90, 4

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article