Kwaku Larbi Korang, Associate Professor in the Department of African and African Studies in the College of Humanities at The Ohio State University with a joint appointment in the Department of Comparative Studies. He is the editor of Research in African Literatures. His areas of specialization include: African, postcolonial, and world literatures; race and ethnicity; colonialism and postcolonialism, critical and cultural theory, and interdisciplinary cultural studies. He is the author of Writing Ghana, Imagining Africa: Nation and African Modernity, as well as several articles.

Sample Publications:

2003, 2004. Writing Ghana, Imagining Africa: Nation and African Modernity. Rochester: University of Rochester Press. 

Achebe’s World: African Literature at Fifty. Volume 42, number 2 of Research in African Literatures. 2011

“Africa in What Age: Post-Global or Post-Rwanda?” The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry. 4.2 (2017): 307-322.

“Canonizing Senghor: On Cheikh Thiam’s Return to the Kingdom of Childhood.” Research in African Literatures 47.3. (2016). 159-178.

“Making a Post-Eurocentric Humanity: Tragedy, Realism, and Things Fall Apart. Research in African Literatures 42.2 (2011): 1-29.

“Where is Africa? When is the West’s Other? Literary Postcoloniality in a Comparative Anthropology.” Diacritics 34.2 (2006): 38-61.

“A Man for All Seasons and Climes? Reading Edward Said from and for Our African Place.” Research in African Literatures 35.4: 23-52.                 

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