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CONTENTS Volume 34, Number 1 Spring 2003
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Michael Chapman African Literature, African Literatures: Cultural Practice or Art Practice? / 1 Shane Graham The Truth Commission and Postapartheid Literature in South Africa / 11 Hamza Mustafa Njozi Utendi wa Masahibu: A Parable of Truth and Justice / 31 Lillian Corti Colonial Violence and Psychological Defenses in Ferdinand Oyono's Une vie de boy / 44 Jean Muteba Rahier The Ghost of Leopold II: The Belgian Royal Museum of Central Africa and Its Dusty Colonialist Exhibition / 58 M. Z. Malaba The Poetry of Charles Mungoshi / 85 Titi Adepitan Principles of Traditional African Art in Yoruba Thorn Wood Carvings: Conversations with Titi Adepitan (excerpts from interviews by Sarah Krose) / 96 Roger Little René Maran on Lucie Cousturier, a Champion of Racial Understanding / 126 REVIEW ESSAYS Adebayo Williams Of Human Bondage and Literary Triumphs: Hannah Crafts and the Morphology of the Slave Narrative / 137 Edward Baugh Derek Walcott and the Centering of the Caribbean Subject / 151 |
Eugene W. Holland Representation and Misrepresentation in Postcolonial Literature and Theory / 159 Sanya Osha Anthropology at the Limits: A Genealogical Re-Appraisal of Colonialism in the Time of Contemporary Globalization / 173 BOOK REVIEWS H. Adlai Murdoch La trilogie caribéenne de Daniel Maximin, Christiane Chaulet-Achour / 187 Maria Olaussen Free-Lancers and Literary Biography in South Africa, Stephen Gray / 188 Wendy Griswold Modernism, Nationalism, and the Novel, Pericles Lewis / 189 C. L. Innes Black British Culture and Society: A Text Reader, ed. Kwesi Owusu / 191 Daniel Avorgbedor Rituals of Fertility and the Sacrifice of Desire, Carol Muller / 192 David M. Westley Black African Literature in English, 1992-1996, Bernth Lindfors / 198 ANNOUNCEMENTS / 200 GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSIONS / 201 |
CONTENTS Volume 34, Number 2 Summer 2003
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Gil Zehava Hochberg Mother, Memory, History: Maternal Genealogies in Gayl Jones's Corregidora and Simone Schwarz-Bart's Pluie et vent sur Télumée Miracle / 1 Gordon Bigelow Revolution and Modernity: Assia Djebar's Les enfants du nouveau monde / 13 Donna Wilkerson-Barker Photographic Memories in Leïla Sebbar's Le Chinois vert d'Afrique / 28 Sonja Darlington Calixthe Beyala's Manifesto and Fictional Theory / 41 Christopher Okonkwo Space Matters: Form and Narrative in Tsitsi Dangaremgba's Nervous Conditions / 53 Judith Preckshot An Historical Obsession: Counternarration in Rachid Mimouni's Tombéza / 75 John Lutz Pessimism, Autonomy, and Commodity Fetishism in Ayi Kwei Armah's The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born / 94 Serigne Ndiaye Dictatorship and the Emptiness of the Rhetoric of Totalitarian Discourse in Sony Labou Tansi's La vie et demie / 112 Nirvana Tanoukhi Rewriting Political Commitment for an International Canon: Paul Bowles's For Bread Alone as Translation of Mohamed Choukri's Al-Khubz Al-Hafi / 127 Donald M. Morales The Pervasive Force of Music in African, Caribbean, and African American Drama / 145 Sue Kossew The Politics of Shame and Redemption in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace / 155 Becky Clarke The African Writers Series--Celebrating Forty Years of Publishing Distinction / 163 INTERVIEW Carole Beckett Esther Nirina Speaks to Carole Beckett / 175 COMMENTARY Olusegun Adekoya A Picture of the Big Apple / 183 REVIEW ESSAYS Nicholas Howe From Togo and Sweden: Kpomassie and Lindqvist / 192 Nina Berman Questions of Context: Ibn Battuta and E. W. Bovill on Africa / 199 BOOK REVIEWS Katheline St. Fort The Butterfly's Way: Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States, ed. Edwidge Danticat / 206 |
Ode S. Ogede Achebe the Orator: The Art of Persuasion in Chinua Achebe's Novels, by Chinwe Christiana Okechukwu / 208 Phyllis Taoua Writing Marginality in Modern French Literature: From Loti to Genet, by Edward J. Hughes / 211 Bruce King Sea Change: Black British Writers, ed. Lauri Ramey/The Booker Prize and the Legacy of Empire, by Luke Strongman / 213 Wendy Griswold Long Drums and Cannons: Nigerian Dramatists and Novelists, 1952-1966, by Margaret Laurence / 216 Pia Thielmann Palaver: Geschlechter-und Gesellschaftsdiskurs in Nigeria, by Christine Fluche / 217 Niyi Afolabi African Diaspora and Autobiographics: Skeins of Self and Skin, by Chinsole / 218 David M. Westley Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies, ed. John C. Hawley / 220 Moradewun Adejunmobi Voices from Madagascar: An Anthology of Contemporary Francophone Literature/Voix de Madagascar: Anthologie de littérature francophone contemporaine, ed. Jacques Bourgeacq and Liliane Ramarasoa / 222 Douglas L. Boudreau Rachid Boudjedra, la passion de l'intertexte, Kagni Alemdjrodo / 223 Mary Anne Harsh Maghrebian Mosiac: A Literature in Transition, ed. Mildred Mortimer / 224 Jacob K. Olupona Odun Ifa: Ifa Festival, Abosede Emanuel/Insight and Artistry in African Divination, ed. John Pemberton III / 225 Lester P. Lee, Jr. A Hubert Harrison Reader, ed. Jeffrey B. Perry / 230 Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. Contemporary Black Men's Fiction and Drama, ed. Keith Clark / 231 Wendy S. Hesford On the Winds and Waves of Imagination: Transnational Feminism and Literature, Constance S. Richards / 232 Katya Gibel Azoulay Rethinking 'Mixed Race', ed. David Parker and Miri Song / 233 Jack Fellman Notes from the Hyena's Belly: An Ethiopian Boyhood, Nega Mezlekia / 235 GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSIONS |
CONTENTS Volume 34, Number 3 Fall 2003
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Isidore Okpewho The Art of The Ozidi Saga / 1 Hein Willemse Textual Production and Contested Histories in a Performance of the Namibian Storyteller Dawid Plaatjies / 27 Mark Mathuray Realizing the Sacred: Power and Meaning in Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God / 46 Salah Moukhlis "A History of Hopes Postponed": Women's Identity and the Postcolonial State in Year of the Elephant: A Moroccan Woman's Journey toward Independence / 66 Marina van Zuylen Maghreb and Melancholy: A Reading of Nina Bouraoui / 84 Pamela A. Pears Kateb Yacine's Journey beyond Algeria and Back / 100 Niyi Afolabi Backadabush: Journey Within as "Rattling the Cage" in Ian Strachan's God's Angry Babies / 115 FORUM Christopher L. Miller "We Shouldn't Judge Deleuze and Guattari": A Response to Eugene Holland / 129 INTERVIEW Véronique Tadjo Speaks with Stephen Gray / 142 NOTE Barine Saana Ngaage "The Star of the Morning": Ogoni Praise Songs of Ken Saro-Wiwa / 148 REVIEW ESSAY Carmela Garritano Troubled Men and the Women Who Create Havoc: Four Recent Films by West African Filmmakers / 159 BOOK REVIEWS David Chioni Moore Beyond the Color Line and the Iron Curtain: Reading Encounters between Black and Red, 1922-1963, by Kate A. Baldwin / 166 Joseph McLaren Langston Hughes and the Blues, by Steven C. Tracy / 167 Joseph McLaren Deep River: Music and Memory in Harlem Renaissance Thought, by Paul Allen Anderson / 168 Chris Dunton Playing the Market, by Anne Fuchs / 170 Loren Kruger Modern African Drama, ed. Biodun Jeyifo / 171 David Chioni Moore African Visions: Literary Images, Political Change and Social Struggle in Contemporary Africa, ed. Cheryl B. Mwaria et al. / 173 Niyi Afolabi Palavers of African Literature, ed. Toyin Falola and Barbara Harlow/African Writers and Their Readers, ed. Toyin Falola and Barbara Harlow / 175 Stéphane Robolin Meditations on African Literature, ed. Dubem Okafor / 177 Molefi K. Asante Africa and Africans in Antiquity, ed. Edwin M. Yamauchi / 178 |
David Brookshaw The Golden Cage: Regeneration in Lusophone African Literature and Culture, by Niyi Afolabi / 182 Phyllis Taoua Les nouvelles voies de la littérature africaine et de la libération (une littératire "voyou"), by Michel Naumann / 183 Ezenwa-Ohaeto Emerging Perspectives on Ama Ata Aidoo, ed. Ada Uzoamaka Azodo and Gay Wilentz / 184 Odile Cazenave Less than One and Double, by Kenneth W. Harrow / 187 Barbara Hill Rigney Mothering across Cultures: Postcolonial Representations, by Angelita Reyes / Writing across Cultures, by Omar Sougou / 188 Odile Cazenave Ernaux, Redonnet, Bâ et Ben Jelloun: le personage féminin à l'aube du XXIième siècle, by Michèle Chossat / 190 Novian Whitsitt Marita: or the Folly of Love, by A. Native, by Stephanie Newell / 191 Novian Whitsitt Readings in African Popular Fiction, ed. Stephanie Newell / 192 F. Odun Balogun Ayi Kwei Armah: Radical Iconoclast: Pitting Imaginary Worlds against the Actual, by Ode Ogede / 194 Simon Lewis Alex La Guma: Politics and Resistance, by Nahem Yousaf / 195 Simon Lewis Olive Schreiner and the Progress of Feminism: Evolution, Gender, Empire, by Carolyn Burdett / 196 Abdul Samed Bemath Es'kia, ed. James Ogude et al. / 197 Henriette Roos Deep hiStories: Gender and Colonialism in Southern Africa, ed. Wendy Woodward et al. / 199 Sabra Webber La fille difficile, ed. Veronika Görög-Karady and Christiane Seydou / 200 Alain Ricard Quand le tronc se fait caïman: drammaturgie di Costa d'Avorio, by Natasa Raschi / 202 Dele Layiwola The Hunter Thinks the Moneky Is Not Wise. . ., by Ulli Beier, ed. Wole Ogundele / 203 Robert Elliot Fox The Legend of the Rockhills and Other Stories, Funso Aiyejina / The Remains of the Last Emperor, by Adebayo Williams / Bulletin from the Land of the Living Ghosts: Romance in the Reign of Commander Cobra, by Adebayo Williams / 208 Anuradha Dingwaney Needham Posts and Pasts: A Theory of Postcolonialism, by Alfred J. López / 213 Dominic Thomas Postcolonial Theory: A Critical Introduction, by Leela Gandhi / 214 Patricia Geesey Postcolonial Hospitality: The Immigrant as Guest, by Mireille Rosello / 215 ANNOUNCEMENT / 218 GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSIONS / 219 |
CONTENTS Volume 34, Number 4 Winter 2003
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Achille Mbembe Life, Sovereignty, and Terror in the Fiction of Amos Tutuola / 1 Jeremy Weate Achille Mbembe and the Postcolony: Going beyond the Text / 27 Ambroise Kom Mongo Beti and the Responsibility of the African Intellectual / 42 Okwui Enwezor The Postcolonial Constellation: Contemporary Art in a State of Permanent Transition / 57 Thérèse Migraine-George Ama Ata Aidoo's Orphan Ghosts: African Literature and Aesthetic Postmodernity / 83 Sarah McKibben The Poor Mouth: A Parody of Postcolonial Irish Manhood / 96 REVIEW ESSAYS Robert Elliot Fox Engaging Ngugi / 115 Stephen Belcher Empire of the Mind: New Work in Mande Studies / 129 Harry Garuba The African Imagination: Postcolonial Studies, Canons, and Stigmatization / 145 Hugh Hodges New Maps for Old: George Elliott Clarke's Odysseys Home / 150 Ben B. Halm Atalanta's Apples: Postcolonial Theory as a Barrier to the "Balance of Stories" / 155 |
BOOK REVIEWS
Susan Z. Andrade Subject to Colonialism: African Self-Fashioning and the Colonial Library, by Gaurav Desai / 174 George Lang Frantz Fanon: Portrait, by Alice Cherki / 175 F. Abiola Irele Nation Building, Propaganda and Literature in Francophone Africa, by Dominic Thomas / 177 Sana Camara Discours nationaliste et identité ethnique à travers le roman sénégalais, by Samba Diop / 179 Barbara Harlow Complicities: The Intellectual and Apartheid, by Mark Sanders / 181 Karlis Racevskis Signifying with a Vengeance: Theories, Literatures, Storytellers, by Mustapha Marrouchi / 182 Ambroise Kom Ecritures littéraires: Dictionnaire critique des oeuvres africaines de langue française, by Pius Ngandu Nkashama / 183 Sue Kossew Re-imagining White Identity by Exploring the Past: History in South African Novels of the 1990s, by Jochen Petzold / 185 FORUM / 187 EVALUATORS FOR VOLUME 34 / 191 GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION / 192 INDEX TO VOLUME 34 / 195 |
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