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CONTENTS Volume 32, Number 1 Spring 2001
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Kimani Njogu The Sunjata Epic--The Ultimate Version / 14 Said A. M. Khamis Classicism in Shaaban Robert's Utopian Novel, Kusadikika / 47 Bill Hemminger The Way of the Spirit / 66 Anna Wexler Fictional Oungan: In the Long Shadow of the Fetish / 83 COMMENTARY Susan Petrilli and Augusto PonzioTelling Stories in the Era of Global Communication: Black Writing--Oraliture 98 David Chioni Moore Where Are All the African and Caribbean Critics? The MLA, Honorary Members, and Honorary Fellows / 110 INTERVIEWS Stephen GrayInterviews with Ahmadou Kourouma and Goretti Kyomuhendo / 122 IN MEMORIAM János RieszWillfried F. Feuser (1928-2000) / 126 BOOK REVIEWS Robert Eric LivingstonEnvisioning Africa: Racism and Imperialism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness, by Peter Edgerly Firchow / 129 Françoise Lionnet De la Négritude à la Créolité: Edouard Glissant, Maryse Condé et la malédiction de la théorie, by Cilas Kemedjio / 130 Christopher Wise Ken Saro-Wiwa: A Bio-Critical Study, by Femi Ojo-Ade, and Ken Saro-Wiwa: Writer and Political Activist, ed. Craig W. McLuckie and Aubrey McPhail / 131 Neil Lazarus "An African Focus": A Study of Ayi Kwei Armah's Narrative Africanization, by Leif Lorentzon / 134 George Lang Yambo Ouologuem, Postcolonial Writer, Islamic Militant, ed. Christopher Wise / 136 Martha R. Navarro Shakespeare in Africa (and Other Venues): Import and the Appropriation of Culture, by Lemuel A. Johnson / 138 T. J. Cribb Selected Essays of Wilson Harris, ed. Andrew Bundy / 140 Nicholas Howe African Horizons: The Landscapes of African Fiction, by Christine Loflin / 141 Uganda's Katikiro in England, by Ham Mukasa / 143 |
Alain Ricard Genesis: aux sources de la littérature européenne, by Albert Gérard / 145 C. L. Innes Danielle Wainwright Niyi Afolabi Michel Laronde Cassandra Stancil Gunkel The African Writers' Handbook, ed. James Gibbs and Jack Mapanje / 154 Farida Abu-Haidar Pamela Scully Rober Elliot Fox Katya Gibel Azoulay Thomas J. Kitson Emmanuel Chiwome Osayimwense Osa Evelyne Accad ANNOUNCEMENT / 173 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS / 174 GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSIONS / 176 |
CONTENTS Volume 32, Number 2 Summer 2001
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SPECIAL ISSUE: THE LANDSCAPE OF AFRICAN MUSIC Edited by F. Abiola Irele F. Abiola Irele Editorial : The Landscape of African Music / 1 Kofi Agawu Introduction / 3 Kofi Agawu African Music as Text / 8 Daniel K. Avorgbedor "It's a Great Song!" Haló Performance as Literary Production / 17 Tanure Ojaide Poetry, Performance, and Art: Udje Dance Songs of Nigeria's Urhobo People / 44 Tejumola Olaniyan The Cosmopolitan Nativist: Fela Anikulapo-Kuti and the Antinomies of Postcolonial Modernity / 76 Meki Nzewi, Israel Anyahuru, and Tom Ohiaraumunna Beyond Song Texts--The Lingual Fundamentals of African Drum Music / 90 Luke Eyoh African Musical Rhythm and Poetic Imagination: A Phono Stylistic Interpretation of Clark-Bekederemo's "Return of the Fishermen" / 105 Akin Euba Text Setting in African Composition / 119 Carol Muller Capturing the "Spirit of Africa" in the Jazz Singing of South African-Born Sathima Bea Benjamin / 133 Bode Omojola African Pianism as an Intercultural Compositional Framework: A Study of the Piano Works of Akin Euba / 153 Nick Nesbitt African Music, Ideology, and Utopia / 175 REVIEW ESSAY Kofi Agawu An African Understanding of African Music / 187 |
REVIEWS
Scott DeVeaux Africa and the Blues, by Gerhard Kubik / 195 Kofi Agawu Chaka. An Opera in Two Chants, comp. by Akin Euba (CD) / 196 Patricia Tang Mande Music, by Eric Charry / 198 Bruce King Seeing with Music: The Lives of Three Blind Musicians, by Simon Ottenberg / 200 John Chernoff A Day for the Hunter, a Day for the Prey: Popular Music and Power in Haiti, by Gage Averill / 202 Akin Euba Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: The Development of His Compositional Style, by Jewel Taylor Thompson / 204 Lupenga Mphande Nationalists, Cosmopolitans, and Popular Music in Zimbabwe, by Thomas Turino / 209 Daniel K. Avorgbedor Music and Culture of West Africa: The Straus Expedition, by Gloria Gibson and Daniel Reed (CD-ROM) / 211 Dancing Prophets: Musical Experience in Tumbuka Healing, by Steven Friedson / 213 Nigerian Art Music, with an Introductory Study of Ghanaian Art Music, by Bode Omojola / 219 Joseph McLaren An Annotated Bibliography of Jazz Fiction and Jazz Fiction Criticism, comp. by Richard N. Albert / 222 F. Abiola Irele Monsieur de Saint-Georges: Le Nègre des Lumières, by Alain Guédé / 225 ANNOUNCEMENT / 227 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS / 228 GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSIONS / 229 |
CONTENTS Volume 32, Number 3 Fall 2001
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CHINUA ACHEBE AT SEVENTY
F. Abiola Irele Homage to Chinua Achebe / 1 Simon Gikandi Achebe and the Invention of African Culture / 3 Adebayo Williams The Autumn of the Literary Patriarch: Chinua Achebe and the Politics of Remembering / 8 Tejumola Olaniyan Chinua Achebe and an Archaeology of the Postcolonial African State / 22 Gerald Moore Chinua Achebe: A Retrospective / 29 SPECIAL ISSUE: NATIONALISM Kenneth W. Harrow Introduction / 33 Emmanuel Yewah The Nation as Contested Construct / 45 Clara A. B. Joseph Nation Because of Differences / 57 Joanna Sullivan The Question of a National Literature for Nigeria / 71 Francis Ngaboh-Smart Nationalism and the Aporia of National Identity in Farah's Maps / 86 Marissa Moorman Of Westerns, Women, and War: Re-Situating Angolan Cinema and the Nation / 103 Jude G. Akudinobi Nationalism, African Cinema, and Frames of Scrutiny / 123 |
Jochen Petzold In Search of a New National History: Debunking Old Heroes in Robert Kirby's The Secret Letters of Jan van Riebeeck / 143 Rita Barnard Speaking Places: Prison, Poetry, and the South African Nation / 155 Ralph Pordzik Nationalism, Cross-Culturalism, and Utopian Vision in South African Utopian and Dystopian Writing 1972-92 / 177 Heidi Grunebaum-Ralph Re-Placing Pasts, Forgetting Presents: Narrative, Place, and Memory in the Time of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission / 198 REVIEW ESSAYS Ebere Onwudiwe A Critique of Recent Writings on Ethnicity and Nationalism / 213 Nicholas Howe Looking for a River, or, Travelers in Africa / 229 BOOK REVIEWS Jonathan Haynes Nationalism and Cultural Practice in the Postcolonial World, by Neil Lazarus / 242 Thomas J. Kitson The Necessary Nation, by Gregory Jusdanis / 243 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS / 245 GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSIONS / 247 |
CONTENTS Volume 32, Number 4 Winter 2001
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Simon Gikandi Theory, Literature, and Moral Considerations / 1 A.O. Amoko The Problem with English Literature: Canonicity, Citizenship, and the Idea of Africa / 19 Alexie Tcheuyap Creolist Mystification: Oral Writing in the Works of Patrick Chamoiseau and Simone Schwarz-Bart / 44 Harry Garuba The Island Writes Back: Discourse/Power and Marginality in Wole Soyinka's The Swamp Dwellers, Derek Walcott's The Sea at Dauphin, and Athol Fugard's The Island / 61 Mireille Rosello The "Césaire Effect," or How to Cultivate One's Nation / 77 Cilas Kemedjio Glissant's Africas: From Departmentalization to the Poetics of Relation / 92 Niyi Afolabi Beyond the Curtains: Unveiling Afro-Brazilian Women Writers / 117 IN MEMORIAM Sandra M. Grayson Djibril Diop Mambety: A Retrospective / 136 Kimani Njogu Gakaara Wanjau: In Memoriam / 140 TRIBUTES TO BERNTH LINDFORS David Attwell Under the Eyes of Texas / 143 Kenneth W. Harrow Bernth Lindfors and the Archive of African Literature / 147 INTERVIEW Stephen Gray Michèle Rakotoson Speaks with Stephen Gray / 155 COMMENTARY Andrea J. Nouryeh Soyinka's Euripides: Postcolonial Resistance or Avant-Garde Adaptation / 160 REVIEW ESSAYS Ikechukwu Okafor-Newsum A Passage to Afrotopia / 172 Jean-Marie Volet Francophone Women Writing in 1998-99 and Beyond: A Literary Feast in a Violent World / 187 BOOK REVIEWS Gaurav Desai Postcolonialism: Theory, Practice or Process? by Ato Quayson / 201 Barbara Hill Rigney Black Women Novelists and the Nationalist Aesthetic, by Madhu Dubey Mythatypes: Signatures and Signs of African Diaspora and Black Goddesses, by Alexis Brooks de Vita / 202 |
John Erickson Countermodernism and Francophone Literary Culture: The Game of Slipknot, by Keith L. Walker / 204 Adele King Ces écrivains d'Afrique Noire, by Françoise Cévaër / 206 Benita Sampedro Dance between Two Cultures: Latino Caribbean Literature Written in the United States, by William Luis / 207 Faith Smith Making Men: Gender, Literary Authority, and Women's Writing in Caribbean Narrative, by Belinda Edmondson / 208 Keith Q. Warner Afro-Creole: Power, Opposition, and Play in the Caribbean, by Richard D. E. Burton / 209 K. Martial Frindéthié Frantz Fanon: Critical Perspectives, ed. Anthony C. Alessandrini / 210 Marie-Paule Ha Tropicopolitans: Colonialism and Agency, 1688-1804, by Srinivas Aravamudan / 211 Olatubosun Ogunsanwo The Dance of Death: Nigerian History and Christopher Okigbo's Poetry, by Dubem Okafor / 213 Craig W. McLuckie Language and Style in Soyinka: A Systemic Textlinguistic Study of a Literary Idiolect, by Oluwole Adejare / 215 Katya Gibel Azoulay The African Difference: Discourses on Africanity and the Relativity of Cultures, by Oyekan Owomoyela / 217 Lisa McNee Claiming History: Colonialism, Ethnography, and the Novel, by Eleni Coundouriotis / 218 Jennifer DeVere Brody The Black Body: Women, Colonialism, and Space, by Radhika Mohanrm / 220 Anuradha Dingwaney Needham Post-Colonial Literatures: Expanding the Canon, ed. Deborah L. Madsen / 221 Bill Hemminger Coterminous Worlds: Magical Realism and Contemporary Post-Colonial Literature in English, ed. Elsa Linguanti / 222 Ode S. Ogede African Novels in the Classroom, ed. Margaret Jean Hay / 224 FORUM / 226 ANNOUNCEMENT / 228 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS / 229 INDEX TO VOLUME 32 / 231 GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSIONS / 236 |
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