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Volume 27, Number 1 Spring 1996
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F. Abiola Irele Editor's Comments: Shakespeare and Company / 1 Nouréini Tidjani-Serpos The Postcolonial Condition: The Archeology of African Knowledge: From the Feast of Ogun and Sango to the Postcolonial Creativity of Obatala / 3 SHAKESPEARE IN AFRICA Lemuel JohnsonShakespearean Imports: Whatever Happened to Caliban's Mother? Or, The Problem with Othello's / 19 Alamin M. Mazrui Shakespeare in Africa: Between English and Swahili Literature / 64 Lupenga Mphande Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda and the Malawi Writers Group: The (un)Making of a Cultural Tradition / 80 S. Ekema Agbaw Africanizing Macbeth: "Down-fall'n birthdom" / 102 IN MY FATHER'S HOUSE ROUND TABLE Tsenay Serequeberhan Reflections on In My Father's House / 110 William Slaymaker Agents and Actors in African Antifoundational Aesthetics: Theory and Narrative in Appiah and Mudimbe / 119 |
Katya Gibel Azoulay Outside Our Parents' House: Race, Culture, and Identity / 129 Lekan Oyegoke Leaky Mansion? Appiah's Theory of African Cultures / 143 COMMENTARY D. A. Masolo Tradition, Communication, Difference: Coming of Age in African Philosophy / 149 Mineke Schipper Emerging from the Shadows: Changing Patterns in Gender Matters / 155 Michael J. C. Echeruo Modernism, Blackface, and the Postcolonial Condition / 172 BOOK REVIEWS / 188 BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED / 237 FORUM / 238 ANNOUNCEMENTS/ 241 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS / 243 |
CONTENTS Volume 27, Number 2 Summer 1996
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Michael Green History, Nation, and Form in Peter Abrahams's Wild Conquest / 1 Eleni Coundouriotis Authority and Invention in the Fiction of Bessie Head / 17 Peter Hitchcock Antillanité and the Art of Resistance / 33 Koffi Anyinefa Hello and Goodbye to Négritude: Senghor, Dadié, Dongala, and America / 51 Ezenwa-Ohaeto Survival Strategies and the New Life of Orality in Nigerian and Ghanaian Poetry: Osundare's Waiting Laughters and Anyidoho's Earthchild / 70 John Scheckter Peter Nazareth and the Ugandan Expulsion: Pain, Distance, Narration / 83 Jeff Thomson The Politics of the Shuttle: Wole Soyinka's Poetic Space / 94 Deborah G. Plant Mythic Dimensions in the Novels of Mariama Bâ / 102 Ode S. Ogede Achebe and Armah: A Unity of Shaping Visions / 112 Clayton G. MacKenzie The Metamorphosis of Piety in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart / 128 |
REVIEW ESSAYS
Simon Gikandi In the Shadow of Hegel: Cultural Theory in an Age of Displacement / 139 Oyekan Owomoyela Deconstruction and Capitulation: African Responses to European Misconstruction and Objectification / 151 COMMENTARY Milton Krieger Building the Republic through Letters: Abbia: Cameroon Cultural Review, 1963-82, and Its Legacy / 155 FORUM Opportune Zongo Rethinking African Literary Criticism: Obioma Nnaemeka / 178 NOTES AND RECORDS Ogo A. Ofuani Old Wine in New Skins? An Exploratory Review of Okot p'Bitek's White Teeth: A Novel / 185 Jack Fellman Ras Bitwädded Mäkonnen Endalkachäw: Some Thoughts on His Life and Work / 194 BOOK REVIEWS / 196 BOOKS RECEIVED / 241 ANNOUNCEMENTS / 242 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS / 243 |
CONTENTS Volume 27, Number 3 Fall 1996
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Zohra Mezgueldi Mother-Word and French-Language Moroccan Writing / 1 Hédi Abdel-Jaouad "Too much in the sun": Sons, Mothers, and Impossible Allianes in Francophone Maghrebian Literature / 15 Onyemaechi Udumukwu Ideology and the Dialectics of Action: Achebe and Iyayi / 34 Stephanie Newell From the Brink of Oblivion: The Anxious Masculinism of Nigerian Market Literatures / 50 FORUM K. Anthony Appiah Reconstructing Racial Identities / 68 Alwi M. Shatry Translations Reinterpreted / 73 COMMENTARY Cythia Ward Reading African Women Readers / 78 Rose Mbowa Theater and Political Repression in Uganda / 87 |
Maija Racevskis Applications of African Cinema in the High School Curriculum: A Secondary Teacher's Views of Three Tales from Senegal, Ça twiste à Poponguine, Udju Azul di Yonta, Hyenas, and Keïta / 98 NOTES AND QUERIES Sjaak van der Geest The Elder and His Elbow: Twelve Interpretations of an Akan Proverb / 110 REVIEW ESSAY Isidore Okpewho How Not to Treat African Folklore / 119 Thomas A. Hale Replies Misrepresenting and Misreading The Epic of Askia Mohammed / 128 BOOK REVIEWS / 136 BOOKS RECEIVED / 183 ANNOUNCEMENTS / 184 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS / 185 |
CONTENTS Volume 27, Number 4 Fall 1996
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Special Issue: The "Black Atlantic"
Simon Gikandi, Guest Editor
Simon Gikandi Introduction: Africa, Diaspora, and the Discourse of Modernity / 1 Joan Dayan Paul Gilroy's Slaves, Ships, and Routes: The Middle Passage as Metaphor / 7
Neil ten Kortenaar You Can Go Home Again, You Just Can't Stay: Stuart Hall and the Caribbean Diaspora / 28 David Chioni Moore Local Color, Global "Color": Langston Hughes, the Black Atlantic, and Soviet Central Asia, 1932 / 49 Supriya Nair Expressive Countercultures and Postmodern Utopia: A Caribbean Context / 71 Ntongela Masilela The "Black Atlantic" and African Modernity in South Africa / 88 Carolyn Cooper Race and the Cultural Politics of Self-Representation: A View from the University of the West Indies / 97 Natasha Barnes Black Atlantic--Black America / 106 Jeanette Treiber Feminism and Identity Politics: Mariama Bâ's Un chant écarlate / 109 |
Cilas Kemedjio The Curse of Writing: Genealogical Strata of a Disillusion--Orality, Islam-Writing, and Identities in the Stage of Becoming in Maryse Condé's Ségou / 124 Francis Ngaboh-Smart Dimensions of Gift Giving in Nuruddin Farah's Gifts / 144 Janos Riesz The Tirailleur Sénégalais Who Did Not Want to Be a "Grand Enfant": Bakary Diallo's Force Bonté (1926) Reconsidered / 157 COMMENTARY Jan Jansen "Elle connaît tout le Mande": A Tribute to the Griotte Siramori Diabate / 180 REVIEW ESSAY Ode S. Ogede Problems of Methodology and Interpretation in the Field of Comparative African Literatures: A Review of Comparative African Literatures by Bernth Lindfors / 198 BOOK REVIEWS / 205 BOOKS RECEIVED / 212 ANNOUNCEMENTS / 213 EVALUATORS--1996 / 214 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS / 215 INDEX TO VOLUME 27 / 217 |
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