‘Gbenga Adeoba

Project Title

Forms of Extroversion: The Media, Publics, and Social Lives of African Poetry

Project Description

This dissertation examines the social lives and publics of contemporary African poetry (Post- 1950) across media histories and ecologies. I argue that a comparative media approach to African poetry expands the purview of the literary and illuminates African poetry’s social lives and infrastructures of production and recognition.