Research in African Literatures Volume 26 Number 1New Voices in African Literature Number 2Flora Nwapa Number 3Out of print! Number 4

CONTENTS Volume 26, Number 1 Spring 1995

Special Issue: New Voices in African Literature Tanure Ojaide New Trends in Modern African Poetry Tijan M. Sallah The Eagle's Vision: The Poetry of Tanure Ojaide John C. Hawley Ben Okri's Spirit-Child: Abiku Migration and Postmodernity Olatubosun Ogunsanwo Intertextuality and Post-Colonial Literature in Ben Okri's The Famished Road Jabulani Mkhize "The Human Face of the Movement": Mandla Langa's A Rainbow on the Paper Sky

Julie Phelps Dietche Voyaging Toward Freedom: New Voices from South Africa Pauline Ada Uwakweh Debunking Patriarchy: The Liberational Quality of Voicing in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions Russell G. Hamilton The Audacious Young Poets of Angola and Mozambique Commentary Kandioura Dramé Bwanapolis or Africa-on-the Seine Walter Ehmeir Publishing South African Literature in English in the 1960s

CONTENTS Volume 26, Number 2 Summer 1995

Special Issue: Flora Nwapa Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi Introduction: The Invalid, Dea(r)th, and the Author: The Case of Flora Nwapa, aka Professor (Mrs.) Flora Nwanzuruahu Nwakuche Ama Ata Aidoo THESE DAYS [III]--A Letter to Flora Nwapa Marie Umeh The Poetics of Economic Independence for Female Empowerment: An Interview with Flora Nwapa Sabine Jell-Bahlsen The Concept of Mammywater in Flora Nwapa's Novels Chimalum Nwankwo The Igbo Word in Flora Nwapa's Craft Brenda F. Berrian The Reinvention of Woman through Conversations and Humor in Flora Nwapa's One Is Enough Ezenwa-Ohaeto The Child Figures and Childhood Symbolism in Flora Nwapa's Children's Fiction Obioma Nnaemeka Feminism, Rebellious Women and Cultural Boundaries: Rereading Flora Nwapa and Her Compatriots

Marie Umeh Finale: Signifyin' The Griottes: Flora Nwapa's Legacy of (Re)Vision and Voice Brenda F. Berrian Bibliography: Flora Nwapa (1931-1993) Essays Supriya Nair Melancholic Women: The Intellectual Hysteric(s) in Nervous Conditions Ranu Samantrai Caught at the Confluence of History: Ama Ata Aidoo's Necessary Nationalism K. Ambroise Teko-Agbo En Famille or the Problematic of Alterity Forum Lilyan Kesteloot Césaire--The Poet and the Politician Review Essays Gregson Davis On Césaire Jean-Norbert Vignondé Littérature Francophone--What For?

CONTENTS Volume 26, Number 4 Winter 1995

Karin Barber African-Language Literature and Postcolonial Criticism Oliver Lovesey Chained Letters: African Prison Diaries and "National Allegory" Dominc Head Gordimer's None to Accompany Me: Revisionism and Interregnum M. Keith Booker African Literature and the World System: Dystopian Fiction, Collective Experience, and the Postcolonial Condition Christine Loflin Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Visions of Africa William Slaymaker Mirrors and Centers: A Rortyan Reading of Ngugi's Liberation Aesthetics Stewart Crehan Phantasy and Repression in The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born Aderemi Baminkunle The Development of Niyi Osundare's Poetry: A Survey of Themes and Technique Kimani Njogu Poetic Serialization: Kiswahili Metapoetry on Prosodic Knots

Ayò Opéfèyítìmí Indigenous Criticisms of Yorùbá Performances Marie-Thérèse Abdel-Messih The Concept of Inter/Nationalization in African Fiction Emmanuel Yewah Court Stories in Selected African Short Narratives Review Essays Ato Quayson Contemporary Literary Theory and the Analysis of Indigenous Cultures: Three Examples on the Yoruba Thomas R. Knipp Okigbo and Labyrinths: The Death of a Poet and the Life of a Poem Commentary Evelyn Ellerman The Literature Bureau: African Influence in Papua New Guinea Fredric Michelman French and British Colonial Language Policies: A Comparative View of Their Impact on African Literature

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