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CONTENTS Volume 33, Number 1 Spring 2002
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Jeff Opland The Early Career of D.L.P. Yali-Manisi, Thembu Imbongi / 1 Isidore Okpewho Walcott, Homer, and the "Black Atlantic" / 27 Douglas McCabe Histories of Errancy: Oral Yoruba Àbíkú Texts and Soyinka's "Abiku" / 45 Dianne W. Oyler Re-Inventing Oral Tradition: The Modern Epic of Souleymane Kanté / 75 David Attwell Modernizing Tradition/Traditionalizing Modernity: Reflections on the Dhlomo-Vilakazi Dispute / 94 Titi Adepitan Between Drama and Epic: Toward a Medium for Ozidi / 120 Brian Crow African Metatheater: Criticizing Society, Celebrating the Stage / 133 INTERVIEW Hein Willemse Zoë Wicomb in Conversation with Hein Willemse / 144 BIBLIOGRAPHY David M. Westley A Select Bibliography of Southern Bantu Praise Poetry / 153 BOOK REVIEWS Janis A. Mayes Black Paris: The African Writers' Landscape, by Bennetta Jules-Rosette / 178 M.Z. Malaba South Africa Backdrop: An Historical Introduction for South African Literary and Cultural Studies, by B.J. Worsfold / 180 Robert Cancel South African Fiction after Apartheid, ed. David Attwell and Barbara Harlow / 182 Simon Lewis From the Margins of Empire: Christina Stead, Doris Lessing, Nadine Gordimer, by Louise Yelin / 183 Temple Hauptfleisch The Drama of South Africa: Plays, Pageants and Publics since 1910, by Loren Kruger / 184 Ada Uzoamaka Azodo African Women's Literature: Orature and Intertextuality, by Susan Arndt / 187 Ode S. Ogede The Companion to African Literatures, ed. Douglas Killam and Ruth Rowe / 189 Alamin Mazrui Islam and the West African Novel: The Politics of Representation, by Ahmed S. Bangura / 190 Ronnie Scharfman La langue de l'autre, by Abdelkébir Khatibi / 192 Bernard Aresu Fugues de Barbarie: les écrivains maghrébins et le surréalisme, by Hédi Abdel-Jaouad / 193 Anne Donadey Two Major Francophone Women Writers, Assia Djébar and Leïla Sebbar: A Thematic Study of Their Works, by Rafika Merini / 194 Irwin Wall Journal 1955-1962: Reflections on the French-Algerian War, by Mouloud Feraoun / 196 |
Kusum Aggarwal République et colonies: entre mémoire et histoire, by Bernard Mouralis / 197 Mary Ann Gosser Esquilín Charcoal and Cinnamon: The Politics of Color in Spanish Caribbean Literature, by Claudette M. Williams / 200 H. Adlai Murdoch Caribbeana: An Anthology of English Literature of the West Indies 1657-1777, ed. and with intro. by Thomas W. Krise / 201 An Introduction to Caribbean Francophone Writing, ed. Sam Haigh /203 George Lang Pidginisation et Créolité en littérature africaine et antillaise. Spec. issue of Palabres: revue d'études africaines 2.3 (1999) / 205 Jane Plastow Community in Motion: Theatre for Development in Africa, by L. Dale Byam / 206 Odile Cazenave Les femmes dans le processus littéraire au Togo, ed. Ambroise Têko-Agbo and Simon Amegbleame / Francophone Women Writers of Africa and the Caribbean, by Renée Larrier/ 208 Bruce King Transforming the Crown: African, Asian, and the Caribbean Artists in Britain, 1966-1996, ed. M. Franklin Sirmans and Mora J. Beauchamp-Byrd / 210 Jan Jansen Des hommes et des bêtes—Chants de chasseurs mandingues, ed. Jean Derive and Gérard Dumestre / 213 Stephen Belcher Maghan Jan et autres récits des chasseurs du Mali, de Ndugacè Samakè, ed. and trans. by Annik Thoyer / 214 Henriette Roos Women's Voices in a Man's World, by Lidwien Kapteijns / 215 Kwaku A. Gyasi Ecriture et texte: contribution africaine, by Simon Battestini / 217 Harry Garuba Post-Colonial Shakespeares, ed. Ania Loomba and Martin Orkin / 218 Craig W. McLuckie Midfielder's Moment: Coloured Literature and Culture in Contemporary South Africa, by Grant Farred / 220 Douglas L. Boudreau Queer Nations: Marginal Sexualities in the Maghreb, by Jarrod Hayes / 222 Niyi Afolabi Black Brazil: Culture, Identity, and Social Mobilization, by Larry Crook and Randal Johnson / 223 Joyce Pettis Places of Silence, Journeys of Freedom, by Eugenia C. DeLamotte / 225 Miriam Conteh-Morgan The Electronic Bookworm: A Web Navigator, comp. Hans Zell / 226 Ralph A. Austen Le jeu et le sérieux: essai d'anthropologie littéraire sur la poésie épique des chasseurs du Mande (Afrique de l'ouest) by Karim Traoré / 228 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS / 231 GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSIONS / 234 |
CONTENTS Volume 33, Number 2 Summer 2002
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IN MEMORIAM: MONGO BETI
Ambroise Kom Remember Mongo Beti (1932-2001) / 1 F. Abiola Irele The Last Words of Mongo Beti / 4 ESSAYS Edmond Mfaboum Mbiafu Mongo Beti and the "Curse" of Ham: Myth and History in Africa / 9 Ayo Abiétou Coly Neither Here nor There: Calixthe Beyala's Collapsing Homes / 34 Katheryn Wright Extending Generic Boundaries: Werewere Liking's L'amour cent-vies / 46 Maria Olaussen "About Lovers in Accra": Urban Intimacy in Ama Ata Aidoo's Changes: A Love Story / 61 Lee Erwin Genre and Authority in Some Popular Nigerian Women's Novels / 81 J. Roger Kurtz Crossing Over: Identity and Change in Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye's Song of Nyarloka / 100 Novian Whitsitt Islamic-Hausa Feminism and Kano Market Literature: Qur'anic Reinterpretation in the Novels of Balaraba Yakubu / 119 Ousseina Alidou Gender, Narrative Space, and Modern Hausa Literature / 137 |
Bonnie Roos Re-Historicizing the Conflicted Figure of Woman in Ngugi's Petals of Blood / 154 Modupe Olaogun Slavery and Etiological Discourse in the Writing of Ama Ata Aidoo, Bessie Head, and Buchi Emecheta / 171 Sheila Smith McKoy "This Unity of Spilt Blood": Tracing Remnant Consciousness in Kofi Awoonor's Comes the Voyager at Last / 194 REVIEW ESSAY Cilas Kemedjio Founding-Ancestors and Intertextuality in Francophone Caribbean Literature and Criticism / 210 FILM REVIEWS Julia Watson Raoul Peck's Lumumba: A Film for Our Times / 230 Alison Murray Women, Nostalgia, Memory: Chocolat, Outremer, and Indochine / 235 BOOK REVIEW Edmond Mfaboum Mbiafu Mongo Beti: la quête de la liberté, by AndréDjiffack / 245 ANNOUNCEMENTS / 248 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS / 249 GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSIONS / 250 |
CONTENTS Volume 33, Number 3 Fall 2002
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Silvia Nagy-Zekmi Tradition and Transgression in the Novels of Assia Djebar and Aïcha Lemsine / 1 Nasrin Qader Fictional Testimonies or Testimonial Fictions: Moussa Ould Ebnou's Barzakh / 14 Hélène Tissières Maghreb—Sub-Saharan Connections / 32 Ellie Higgins Urban Apprenticeships and Senegalese Narratives of Development: Mansour Sora Wade's Picc Mi and Djibril Diop Mambety's La petite vendeuse de Soleil / 54 Anjali Prabhu Sisterhood and Rivalry in-between the Shadow and the Sultana: A Problematic of Representation in Ombre sultane / 69 Claudio Gorlier Post-Marxism in an African Context: The Usability of Antonio Gramsci / 97 Yaw Adu-Gyamfi Orality in Writing: Its Cultural and Political Significance in Wole Soyinka's Ogun Abibiman / 104 Wole Ogundele Devices of Evasion: The Mythic versus the Historical Imagination in the Postcolonial African Novel / 125 Nathalie Arnold Placing the Shameless: Approaching Poetry and the Politics of Pemban-ness in Zanzibar, 1995-2001 / 140 COMMENTARY Gerald Moore The Transcription Centre in the Sixties: Navigating in Narrow Seas / 167 Lee Haring African Folktales and Creolization in the Indian Ocean Islands / 182 BOOK REVIEWS Farida Abu-Haidar Tahar Ben Jelloun, by Bernard Aresu / 200 Adele King Une enfance Outremer, ed. Leïla Sebbar / 201 Jeanne Garane Women Writers in Francophone Africa, by Nicki Hitchcott / 202 Jean-Marie Volet Selfish Gifts: Senegalese Women's Autobiographical Discourses, by Lisa McNee / 203 Lamia Ben Youssef The Desert Shore: Literatures of the Sahel, ed. Christopher Wise / 204 Serge Ménager Au temps des cannibales suivi de Dans les cavernes sombres, by Edouard Motsamai and James Mochabane / 205 Marjorie Attignol Salvodon Creole Identity in the French Caribbean Novel, by H. Adlai Murdoch / 207 Maximilien Laroche Entwisted Tongues: Comparative Creole Literatures, by George Lang / 208 Simon Lewis Routes of the Roots: Geography and Literature in the English-Speaking Countries, ed. Isabella Maria Zoppi / 211 |
Elaine Savory Textual Politics from Slavery to Postcolonialism: Race and Identification, by Carl Plasa / 212 Amanda Kemp African Identities: Race, Nation and Culture in Ethnography, Pan-Africanism and Black Literatures, by Kandiatu Kanneh / 213 Anuradha Dingwaney Needham Comparing Postcolonial Literatures: Dislocations, ed. Ashok Bery and Patricia Murray / 215 Lisa McNee The Colonial Unconscious: Race and Culture in Interwar France, by Elizabeth Ezra / 216 Sola Adeyemi Imagining Africa: Landscape in H. Rider Haggard's African Romances, by Lindy Stiebel Diary of an African Journey: The Return of Rider Haggard, by H. Rider Haggard / 218 James Gibbs The Dramatic Art of Athol Fugard: From South Africa to the World, by Albert Wertheim / 219 Loren Kruger Monarchs, Missionaries, and African Intellectuals: African Theatre and the Unmaking of Colonial Marginality, by Bhekizizwe Peterson / 221 Thomas J. Kitson Up from Bondage: The Literatures of Russian and African American Soul, by Dale E. Peterson / 222 Greg Thomas Gloria Naylor's Early Novels, ed. Margot Anne Kelley / 223 Jamaica Kincaid: A Critical Companion, by Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert / 225 Diala Touré Les masques dogon: Ethnologie savante et ethnologie autochtone, by Anne Doquet / 226 Ode S. Ogede The Poetry of Wole Soyinka, by Tanure Ojaide / 228 Wumi Raji Oral Traditions and Aesthetic Transfer, by Charles Bodunde. African Languages Literature in the Political Context of the 1990s, ed. Charels Bodunde / 231 Keith Q. Warner Awakening Spaces: French Caribbean Popular Songs, Music, and Culture, by Brenda F. Berrian / 233 Ike Okafor-Newsum W.E.B. Du Bois: An Encyclopedia, ed. Gerald Horne and Mary Young / 234 Ngwarsungu Chiwengo The Black Experience in the Twentieth Century: An Autobiography and Meditation, by Peter Abrahams / 235 Smriti Srinivas Postcolonialism: My Living, by Arun Mukherjee / 238 FORUM / 240 ANNOUNCEMENTS / 244 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS / 245 GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSIONS / 248 |
CONTENTS Volume 33, Number 4 Winter 2002
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SPECIAL ISSUE: LÉOPOLD SÉDAR SENGHOR
Wole Soyinka Senghor: Lessons in Power / 1 Ulli Beier Léopold Sédar Senghor: A Personal Memoir / 3 Pathé Diagne Senghor in Context / 12 Janet G. Vaillant Homage to Léopold Sédar Senghor: 1906-2001 / 3 János Riesz Senghor and the Germans / 25 Mildred Mortimer Sine and Seine: The Quest for Synthesis in Senghor's Life and Poetry / 38 Gerald Moore Senghor: Poet of Night / 51 Janice Spleth The Arabic Constituents of Africanité: Senghor and the Queen of Sheba / 60 Richard Watts Senghor's Prefaces between the Colonial and Postcolonial / 76 David M. Westley A Select Bibliography of the Works of Léopold Sédar Senghor / 88 Sana Camara Birago Diop's Contribution to the Ideology of Negritude / 101 Christopher Wise Saying "Yes" to Africa: Jacques Derrida's Specters of Marx / 124 COMMENTARY Peter S. Thompson Negritude and a New Africa: An Update / 143 Kenneth W. Harrow Ethics and Difference: A Response to Simon Gikandi's "Theory, Literature, and Moral Considerations" / 154 INTERVIEW Michael T. Martin "I am a storyteller, drawing water from the well of my culture": Gaston Kaboré, Griot of African Cinema " / 161 REVIEW ESSAY Guy Ossito Midiohouan Lilyan Kesteloot and the History of African Literature / 180 BOOK REVIEWS Laura Chrisman Edward Said: The Paradox of Identity, by Bill Ashcroft and Pal Ahluwalia / Edward Said and the Work of the Critic, ed. Paul A. Bové / Edward Said: A Critical Introduction, by Valerie Kennedy / 199 Moradewun Adejunmobi Ghanaian Popular Fiction, by Stephanie Newel / 201 Barbara Rigney Postcolonizing the Commonwealth: Studies in Literature and Culture, ed. Rowland Smith / 202 Out of Place, by Ian Baucom / 203 |
Wumi Raji Thresholds, spec. issue of Anglophonia/Caliban / 204 Bruce King Ghana's Concert Party Theatre, by Catherine M. Cole / 206 Moradewun Adejunmobi FonTonFrom: Contemporary Ghanaian Literature, ed. Kofi Anyidoho and James Gibbs / 208 Jennifer Wenzel States of Exception, by Keya Ganguly / 209 Joseph McLaren Language, Rhythm, and Sound: Black Popular Cultures into the Twenty-First Century, ed. Joseph K. Adjaye and Adrianne R. Andrews / 210 Adeline Masquelier Contes tendres, contes cruels du Sahel nigérien, by Geneviève Calame-Griaule / 208 Niyi Afolabi Proverbs, Textuality, and Nativism in African Literature, by Adélékè Adéèkó / 213 H. Adlai Murdoch L'esclave fugitif dans la littérature antillaise, by Marie-Christine Rochman / 215 Alan Rice Blind Memory: Visual Representation of Slavery in England and America 1780-1865, by Marcus Wood American Slaves in Victorian England: Abolitionist Politics in Popular Literature and Culture, by Audrey Fisch / 217 Robert Eric Livingston Using the Master's Tools: Resistance and the Literature of the African and South Asian Diasporas, by Anuradha Dingwaney Needham / 219 Ato Sekyi-Otu On Black Men, by David Marriott / 221 Simon Lewis Against Normalization: Writing Radical Democracy in South Africa, by Anthony O'Brien / 223 Benita Sampedro Afro-Cuban Literature: Critical Juncture, by Edward J. Mullen / 224 Daniela Merolla Colonial Histories, Post-colonial Memories: The Legend of the Kahina, a North African Heroine, by Abdelmajid Hannoum / 226 Fawzia Mustafa Naipaul's Truth: The Making of a Writer, by Lilian Feder / 228 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS / 230 GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSIONS / 232 / INDEX TO VOLUME 33 / 234 |
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