Research in African Literatures Volume 28 Number 1The Oral-Written Interface Number 2Autobiography & African Literature Number 3Arabic Writing in Africa Number 4Multiculturalism

CONTENTS Volume 28, Number 1 Spring 1997

THE ORAL-WRITTEN INTERFACE Alain Ricard and C.F. Swanepoel, Editors Alain Ricard and C.F. Swanepoel Towards a New Philology? / 1 Carol Muller "Written" into the Book of Life: Nazarite Women's Performance Inscribed as Spiritual Text in Ibandla lama Nazaretha / 3 Didier Morin Mimetic Traditions in Beja Poetry (Sudan) / 15 Zodwa Sithebe The Dynamics of Oral and Written Transmission Processes in SiSwati Oral Poetry / 35 Kwame Ayivor Thomas Mopoku Mofolo's "Inverted Epic Hero": A Reading of Mofolo's Chaka as an African Epic Folktale / 49 Olakunle George Compound of Spells: The Predicament of D.O. Fagunwa (1903-63) / 78 Anthère Nzabatsinda The Aesthetics of Transcribing Orality in the Works of Alexis Kagame, Writer of Rwanda / 98 C. F. Swanepoel An Exploration of J. J. Moiloa's Thesele, Ngwana Mmamokgatjhane, the Epic Tradition, and the Oral-Written Interface / 112

J.O.J. Nwachukwu-Agbada Tradition and Innovation in the Ibgo Novels of Tony Ubesie / 124 Christopher Wise Resurrecting the Devil: Notes on Ngugi's Theory of the Oral-Aural African Novel / 134 Joseph N'Soko Swa-Kabamba The Mbíímbi, a Panegyric Dynastic Poem of the Yaka, and Its Principal Characteristics / 141 M.M. Mulokozi The Last of the Bards: The Story of Habibu Selemani of Tanzania, c 1929-93 / 159 Russell H. Kashula Exploring the Oral-Written Interface with Particular Reference to Xhosa Oral Poetry / 173 Alain Ricard From Oral to Written Literature / 192 BOOK REVIEWS / 200 BOOKS RECEIVED / 240 FORUM / 241 ANNOUNCEMENT / 245 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS / 246 GUIDELINES FOR CONTRIBUTORS / 248

CONTENTS Volume 28, Number 2 Summer 1997

AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND AFRICAN LITERATURE Patricia Geesey, Guest Editor Patricia Geesey Introduction: Why African Autobiography / 1 Mary-Kay F. Miller My Mothers/My Selves: (Re) Reading a Tradition of West African Women's Autobiography / 5 Nicki Hitchcott African "Herstory: The Feminist Reader and the African Autobiographical Voice / 16 Julia Watson Unruly Bodies: Autoethnography and Authorization in Nfissatou Diallo's De Tilène au Plateau [A Dakar Childhood] / 34 Carmela J. Garritano At an Intersection of Humanism and Postmodernism: A Feminist Reading of Ellen Kuzwayo's Call Me Woman / 57 Irène Assiba d'Almeida Kesso Barry's Kesso, or Autobiography as a Subverted Tale / 66 Lisa McNee Autobiographical Subjects / 83 Mildred Mortimer Assia Djebar's Algerian Quartet: A Study in Fragmented Autobiography / 102

David Buuck African Doppelganger: Hybridity and Identity in the Work of Dambudzo Marechera / 118 Judith Lütge Coullie The Power to Name the Real: The Politics of the Worker Testimony in South Africa / 132 REVIEW ESSAYS Susan Greenstein Apologia pro Vita Sua?: Writing and Being by Nadine Gordimer / 145 Dan Izevbaye Elesin's Homecoming: The Translation of The King's Horseman / 154 BOOK REVIEWS / 171 BOOKS RECEIVED / 209 ANNOUNCEMENTS / 210 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS / 211 GUIDELINES FOR CONTRIBUTORS / 213

CONTENTS Volume 28, Number 3 Fall 1997

ARABIC WRITING IN AFRICA Farida Abu-Haidar, Editor Farida Abu-Haidar Introduction: Arabic Writing in Africa / 1 Michelle Hartman Re-Reading Women in/to Naguib Mahfouz's al-Liss wa'l kilab (The Thief and the Dogs) / 5 Alamin M. Mazrui and Judith I. Abala Sex and Patriarchy: Gender Relations in Mawt al-rajul al-wahid 'ala al-ard (God Dies by the Nile) / 17 Rasheed El-Enany The Western Encounter in the Works of Yusuf Idris / 33 Sonia S'hiri Voices of the Marginalized in Tunisian Narrative / 56 Jean Fontaine The Tunisian Literary Scene / 73 Aïda A. Bamia Dhakirat al-Jasad (The Body's Memory): A New Outlook on Old Themes / 85 Debbie Cox The Novels of Tahar Wattar: Command or Critique? / 94 Ismail El-Outmani Prolegomena to the Study of the "Other" Moroccan Literature / 110 Renata Malina An Interview with the Sudanese Author Tarek Eltayeb / 122 Patricia Geesey Cultural Hybridity and Contamination in Tayeb Salih's Mawsim al-hijra ila al-Shamal (Season of Migration to the North) / 128

Ewa Machut-Mendecka The Visionary Art of Ibrahim al-Kawni / 141 Eiman El-Nour The Development of Contemporary Literature in Sudan / 150 Sana Camara A'jami Literature in Senegal: The Example of Sëriñ Muusaa Ka, Poet and Biographer / 163 Razaq D. Abubakre and Stefan Reichmuth Arabic Writing between Global and Local Culture: Scholars and Poets in Yorubaland (Southwestern Nigeria) / 183 John Hunwick The Arabic Literary Tradition of Nigeria / 210 BOOK REVIEWS Farida Abu-Haidar Gender and Community in the Kabyle Literary Space, by Daniela Merolla / 224 Philip Kennedy Qasida Poetry in Islamic Asia and Africa, Volume 1, ed. Stefan Sperl and Christopher Shackle / 227 Harry T. Norris The Writings of Central Sudanic Africa,, comp. John O. Hunwick et al. / 234 BOOKS RECEIVED / 237 ANNOUNCEMENTS / 238 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS / 239 GUIDELINES FOR CONTRIBUTORS / 241

CONTENTS Volume 28, Number 4Winter 1997

MULTICULTURALISM Jean-François Fourny and Marie-Paule Ha, Editors Jean-François Fourny and Marie-Paule Ha Introduction: The History of an Idea / 1 Samir Amin The Nation: An Enlightened or Fog-Shrouded Concept? / 8 Joachim Fiebach Ebrahim Hussein's Dramaturgy--A Swahili Multiculturalist's Journey in Drama and Theater / 19 Josaphat Kubayanda Unifinished Business: Dictatorial Literature of Post-Independence Latin America and Africa / 38 Ruthmarie H. Mitsch Maryse Condé's Mangroves / 54 Ben A. Heller Multiculturalism, Caribbean Space, and Identity at the Margins: Two Cases / 71 Dominique D. Fisher The Blank Spaces of Interculturality / 85 Albert Mosley Are Racial Categories Racist? / 101 Paulin Hountondji From the Ethnosciences to Ethnophilosophy: Kwame Nkrumah's Project / 112 Mineke Schipper Knowledge Is Like an Ocean: Insiders, Outsiders, and the Academy / 121 REVIEW ESSAYS Jean-François Fourny In Defense of the State: On Neil Bissoondath's Selling Illusions, Michael Linden's The Next American Nation, and Tzvetan Todorov's Morals of History / 142 Marie-Paule Ha Relations of Cultures: A Review of Ali Behdad's Belated Travelers, Xiaomei Chen's Occidentalism, and Chris Tiffin and Alan Lawson's De-Scribing Empire, Post-Colonialism and Textuality / 154 Jeffrey W. Crawford The Dilemma of the African Philosopher: A Review of Godwin Sogolo's Foundations of African Philosophy and Joachim Mugalu's Philosophy, Oral Tradition and Africanistics / 165

INTERVIEWS Richard Bjornson with Marcien Towa / 172 Richard Samin with Es'kia Mphahlele / 182 Abiola Irele with Paulin Hountondji / 201 COMMENTARY Geoffrey Coats From Whence We Come: Alioune Diop and Saint-Louis, Senegal / 206 Dieudonné Gnammankou New Research on Pushkin's Africa: Hannibal's Homeland / 220 BOOK REVIEWS Barbara Harlow Cross-Addressing: Resistance Literature and Cultural Borders, ed. John C. Hawley / 224 Carol L. Lloyd Multiculturalism: Examining the Politics of Recognition, by Charles Taylor In Europe's Image: The Need for American Multiculturalism, by O. R. Dathorne / 226 Lawrence R. Schehr Cultural Difference and the Literary Text, by Winifried Siemerling and Katrin Schwenk / 231 ANNOUNCEMENT / 234 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS / 235 INDEX TO VOLUME 28 / 237

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