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CONTENTS Volume 31, Number 1 Spring 2000
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Ngugi wa Thiong'o Europhonism, Universities, and the Magic Fountain: The Future of African Literature and Scholarship / 1 Patricia D. Duffy To Paris and Back: Seeking a Balance / 12 Stephanie Newell Redefining Mimicry: Quoting Techniques and the Role of Readers in Locally Published Ghanaian Fiction / 32 Ranu Samantrai Claiming the Burden: Naipaul's Africa / 50 Simon Lewis Culture, Cultivation, and Colonialism in Out of Africa and Beyond / 63 Isidore Diala Biblical Mythology in André Brink's Anti-Apartheid Crusade / 80 Susan Pearsall "Where the Banalities Are Enacted": The Everyday in Gordimer's Novels / 95 ROUND TABLE ON NURUDDIN FARAH Jacqueline Bardolph On Nuruddin Farah / 119 Ousseina D. Alidou and Alamin M. Mazrui Secrets: Farah's "Things Fall Apart" / 122 Francis Ngaboh-Smart Secrets and a New Civic Consciousness / 129 Said S. Samatar Are There Secrets in Secrets? / 137 COMMENTARY Pius Adesanmi The Many "Spaces" of the African Writer: The Meeting of African Writers in Durban, South Africa, 2-7 March 1998 / 144 REVIEW ESSAYS D. A. Masolo From Myth to Reality: African Philosophy at Century-End / 149 T. J. Cribb Oroonoko and Happy Birthday, Mister Deka, by 'Biyi Bandele / 173 BOOK REVIEWS Tanure Ojaide Wole Soyinka: A Quest for Renewal, by Mary T. David / 179 Craig McLuckie Conversations with Chinua Achebe, ed. Bernth Lindfors; Understanding Things Fall Apart: Selected Essays and Criticisms, by Solomon O. Iyasere; Understanding Things Fall Apart: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents, by Kalu Ogbaa / 181 Bruce King Strategic Transformations in Nigerian Writing, by Ato Quayson / 184 Ode S. Ogede African Writers, ed. C. Brian Cox / 186 Ian Baucom Sol Plaatje: Selected Writings, ed. Brian Willan / 189 |
Linda-Susan Beard The Life and Works of Bessie Head, by Virginia Uzoma Ola / 191 Henriette Roos "We Spend Our Years as a Tale That Is Told": Oral Historical Narrative in a South African Chiefdom, by Isabel Hofmeyr / 194 Afrikaans Literature: Recollection, Redefinition, Restitution, ed. Robert Kriger and Ethel Kriger / 196 John C. Hawley Nuruddin Farah, by Patricia Alden and Louis Tremaine / 198 Martha L. Wharton Selected Works of Edythe Mae Gordon, with introduction by Lorraine Elena Roses / 199 Elaine Savory Derek Walcott and West Indian Drama, by Bruce King / 202 Chukwuma Azuonye African Poetry of the Living Dead: Igbo Masquerade Poetry, ed. and trans. Romanus Egudu / 205 Anthea Simoes Readings in African Popular Culture, ed. Karin Barber / 211 Olankunle George The Oral History and Literature of the Wolof People of Waalo, Northern Senegal: The Master of the Word (Griot) in theWolof Tradition, by Samba Diop / 214 Mildred Mortimer The Liminal Novel: Studies in the Francophone African Novel as Bildungsroman, by Wangari wa Nyatetu Waigwa / 216 Jan Jansen Anthologie de chants mandingues (Côte d'Ivoire, Guinée, Mali), by Mamadi Kaba / 218 Marie-Paule Ha Les romancières du Continent noir, by Sonia Lee / 219 Ikechukwu Okafor-Newsum The African Heritage of American English, by Joseph E. Holloway and Winifred K. Vass / 220 Lindon Barrett Dislocating the Color Line, by Samira Kawash / 222 Dominic Head Pen and Power: A Post-Colonial Reading of J. M. Coetzee and André Brink, by Sue Kossew. A Morbid Fascination: White Prose and Politics in Apartheid South Africa, by Richard Peck / 223 Nancy J. Schmidt A Select Index to South African Literature in English, coord. and ed. Debbie Landman / 227 FORUM / 229 ANNOUNCEMENTS / 232 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS / 234 GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSIONS / 237 |
CONTENTS Volume 31, Number 2 Summer 2000
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Liz Gunner Hidden Stories and the Light of the New Day: A Zulu Manuscript and Its Place in South African Writing Now / 1 Sandra Chait Mythology, Magic Realism, and White Writing after Apartheid / 17 Lokangaka Losambe Carnival as an Embedded Narrative in Mbulelo Mzamane's Short Stories / 29 Itala Vivan Geography, Literature, and the African Territory: Some Observations on the Western Map and the Representation of Territory in the South African Literary Imagination / 49 J. P. Little Autofiction and Cheikh Hamidou Kane's L'aventure ambiguë / 71 André Djiffack The Myth of Ruben / 91 James A. Jones Fact and Fiction in God's Bits of Wood / 117 Barbara Klaw Mariama Bâ's Une si longue lettre and Subverting a Mythology of Sex-Based Oppression / 132 Kwaku Asante-Darko The Co-Centrality of Racial Conciliation in Negritude Literature / 151 COMMENTARY Emeka Nwabueze Theoretical Construction and Constructive Theorizing on the Execution of Ikemefuna in Achebe's Things Fall Apart: A Study in Critical Dualism / 163 INTERVIEW Carole M. Beckett Charlotte-Arrisoa Rafenomanjato Speaks to Carole Beckett / 174 REVIEW ESSAYS Adebayo Williams The Postcolony as Trope: Searching for a Lost Continent in a Borderless World / 179 Simon Gikandi Traveling Theory: Ngugi's Return to English / 194 |
BOOK REVIEWS
Eckhard Breitinger Ezenwa-Ohaeto, Chinua Achebe: A Biography Tobias Döring, Chinua Achebe and Joyce Cary. Ein postkoloniales Rewriting englischer Afrika-Fiktionen / 210 Cilas Kemedjio Gregson Davis, Aimé Césaire / 213 Rita Barnard Dominic Head, J. M. Coetzee / 214 Robert Eric Livingston F. Odun Balogun, Ngugi and African Postcolonial Narrative / 216 Ambroise Kom Derek Wright, New Directions in African Fiction Derek Wright, ed., Contemporary African Fiction / 217 Michael Dash Nan Wilson-Tagoe, Historical Thought and Literary Representation in West Indian Literature / 221 Ralph Austen Lilyan Kesteloot and Bassirou Dieng, Les épopées d'Afrique noire / 224 Olatubosun Ogunsanwo Brenda Cooper, Magical Realism in West African Fiction / 225 Margaret Thompson Drewal Diedre Badejo, Osun Sèègèsí: The Elegant Diety of Wealth, Power and Femininity / 228 Peter Hulme E. Chukwudi Eze, Race and the Enlightenment / 232 Ruth H. Lindeborg Simon Gikandi, Maps of Englishness / 233 Antonio Benítez-Rojo Chris Bongie, Islands and Exiles / 234 Gaurav Desai Carolyn Shaw, Colonial Inscriptions / 235 Gauri Viswanathan Deirdre Lynch and William B. Warner, eds., Cultural Institutions of the Novel / 236 Erika Bourguignon Joseph Vogel, Encyclopedia of Precolonial Africa / 238 FORUM / 240 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS / 241 GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSIONS / 243 This issue is out of print |
CONTENTS Volume 31, Number 3 Fall 2000
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AMADOU HAMPATÉ BÂ
Ralph A. Austen From a Colonial to a Postcolonial African Voice: Amkoullel, l'enfant peul / 1 Kenneth W. Harrow Under the Cover of the Way: A Feminist Reading of Hampaté Bâ's Kaïdara / 18 Moradewun Adejunmobi Disruptions of Orality in the Writings of Hampaté Bâ / 27 SONY LABOU TANSI Phyllis Clark and Alain Ricard, Guest Editors Sony Labou Tansi: From Archive to Corpus / 37 Phyllis Clark Passionate Engagements: A Reading of Sony Labou Tansi's Private Ancestral Shrine / 39 Nicolas Martin-Granel Le quatrième côté du triangle, or Squaring the Sex: A Genetic Approach to the "Black Continent" in Sony Labou Tansi's Fiction / 69 János Riesz From L'état sauvage to L'état honteux / 100 Justin Kalulu Bisanswa Life Is Not a Book. Creuse: Literature and Representation in Sony Labou Tansi's Work / 129 REVIEW ESSAY Peter P. Ekeh Contesting the History of Benin Kingdom / 147 BOOK REVIEWS Moradewun Adejunmobi Amadou Hampâté Bâ et l'africanisme, by Kusum Aggarwal / 171 David Adams Literary Theory and the Claims of History, by Satya P. Mohanty / 172 Ezenwa-Ohaeto A Harvest from Tragedy: Critical Perspectives on Nigerian Civil War Literature, ed. Chinyere Nwahunanya Ambroise Kom Nationalists and Nomads: Essays on Francophone African Literature and Culture, by Christopher L. Miller / 173 Ode S. Ogede The Existential Fiction of Ayi Kwei Armah, Albert Camus, and Jean-Paul Sartre, by Tommie L. Jackson / 178 Eileen Julien Normes linguistiques et écriture africaine chez Ousmane Sembène, by Anthère Nzabatsinda / 179 Fernando Arenas Transculturation and Resistance in Lusophone African Narrative, by Phyllis Peres / 181 |
Françoise Lionnet Black Accents: Writing in French from Africa, Mauritius and the Caribbean, ed. J.P. Little and Roger Little / 182 Mildred Mortimer An Anthology of Myths, Legends, and Folktales from Cameroon, by Emmanuel Matateyou / 183 Emmanuel Yewah L'univers familial dans les contes africains, by Veronika Görög-Karady / 186 Chadwick Allen Beyond Postcolonial Theory, by E. San Juan, Jr.; Postcolonial Theory: Contexts, Practices, Politics, by Bart Moore-Gilbert; Culture, Globalization and the World-System: Contemporary Conditions for the Representation of Identity, ed. Anthony D. King / 187 Supriya Nair Daughters of Caliban, by Consuelo Lopez Springfield / 191 Eckhard Breitinger Literatur als Quelle des Fremdverstehens. Eine Untersuchung ausgewählter südafrikanischer Romane der 70er und 80er Jahre, by Sabine Rauer / 192 Joseph McLaren The Harlem Renaissance in Black and White, by George Hutchinson / 195 Ikechukwu Okafor-Newsum Langston Hughes: Folk Dramatist in the Protest Tradition, 1921-1943, by Joseph McLaren / 198 Margaret T. Drewal Yoruba Dance, by Omófolábò Àjàyí / 201 Suzanne MacRae Guide to African Cinema, by Sharon A. Russell / 202 Simon Lewis Text, Theory, Space: Land, Literature and History in South Africa and Australia, ed. Kate Darian-Smith, Liz Gunner, and Sarah Nuttall / 205 Dan Bivona King Khama, Emperor Joe, and the Great White Queen: Victorian Britain through African Eyes, by Neil Parsons / 206 Lawrence Needham Romanticism, Race, and Imperial Culture, 1780-1834, ed. Alan Richardson and Sonia Hofkosh / 208 Josna E. Rege Gender Voices and Choices: Redefining Women in Contemporary African Fiction, by Gloria Chukukere / 209 ANNOUNCEMENTS / 211 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS / 212 GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSIONS / 214 This issue is out of print |
CONTENTS Volume 31, Number 4 Winter 2000
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SPECIAL ISSUE: POETICS OF AFRICAN ART Edited by Mineke Schipper Mineke Schipper Introduction / 1 Wilfried van Damme African Verbal Arts and the Study of African Visual Aesthetics / 8 Sylvie Kandé From Bandiagara to Paris: Reflections on the Travels of a Dogon Sign / 21 Dennis Duerden The "Discovery" of the African Mask / 29 Anthonia Kalu African Literature and the Traditional Arts: Speaking Art, Molding Theory / 48 Mary Jo Arnoldi Wild Animals and Heroic Men: Visual and Verbal Arts in the Sogo bò Masquerades of Mali / 63 Allen F. Roberts and Mary Nooter Roberts "Paintings Like Prayers": The Hidden Side of Senegalese Reverse-Glass "Image/Texts" / 76 Sultan H. Somjee Oral Traditions and Material Culture: An East Africa Experience / 97 Rose Marie Beck Aesthetics of Communication: Texts on Textiles (Leso) from the East African Coast (Swahili) / 104 Anneleen de Jong Portraying a Story: The Narrative Function of the Human Form in Contemporary Art of South Africa / 125 Mineke Schipper The Verbal and the Visual in a Globalizing Context: African and European Connections as an Ongoing Process / 139 |
INTERVIEWS
Pauline Burmann The Thread of the Story: Two South African Women Artists Talk about Their Work / 155 BOOK REVIEWS Rogier M. A. Bedaux Museums and Archaeology in West Africa, ed. Claude Daniel Ardouin/Museums and the Community in West Africa, ed. Claude Daniel Ardouin and Emmanuel Arinze / 166 Mineke Schipper Beauty in Context: Towards an Anthropological Approach to Aesthetics, by Wilfried van Damme / 168 Bruce King Caribbean Art, by Veerle Poupeye / 172 Lisa McNee Black Venus: Sexualized Savages, Primal Fears, and Primitive Narratives in French, by T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting / 174 Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi Imagining Insiders: Africa and the Question of Belonging, by Mineke Schipper / 175 Jonathan Haynes Les cinémas d'Afrique noire: le regard en question, by Olivier Barlet / 177 ANNOUNCEMENTS / 179 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS / 180 INDEX TO VOLUME 31 / 182 GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSIONS / 187 |
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