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CONTENTS Volume 35, Number 1 Spring 2004
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John Conteh-Morgan Editor's Comments / vi TRIBUTES Ngugi wa Thiong'o On David Cook / 1 Wumi Raji Tribute to David Cook / 4 Mildred Mortimer Tribute to Edward Said / 6 ESSAYS Kamal Salhi Rethinking Francophone Culture: Africa and the Caribbean between History and Theory / 9 Joseph R. Slaughter Master Plans: Designing (National) Allegories of Urban Space and Metropolitan Subjects for Postcolonial Kenya / 30 Mustapha Hamil Exile and Its Discontents: Malika Mokaddem's Forbidden Woman / 52 Michael F. O'Riley Place, Position, and Postcolonial Haunting in Assia Djebar's La femme sans sépulture / 66 Anastasia Valassopolous "Words written by a pen sharp as a scalpel": Gender and Medical Practice in the Early Fiction of Nawal El Saadawi and Fatmata Conteth / 87 Marie Krüger Narrative in the Time of AIDS: Postcolonial Kenyan Women's Literature / 108 Hildegard Hoeller Ama Ata Aidoo's Heart of Darkness / 130 Chris Dunton Tatamkhulu Afrika: The Testing of Masculinity / 148 INTERVIEWS Alison Rice "Déchiffrer le silence": A Conversation with Germaine Tillion / 162 Nadège Veldwachter An Interview with Gisèle Pineau / 180 NOTE Chris Dunton Pierre Meunier, Nigerian Dramatist / 187 BOOK REVIEWS Nina Berman Kala Shairi: German East Africa in Swahili Poems, ed. Gudrun Miehe, Katrin Bromber, Said Khamis, and Ralf Grosserhode / 191 Primitivismus und Afrikanismus: Kunst und Kultur Afrikas in der deutschen Avantgarde, by Béchié Paul N'Guessan / 192 Anne Donadey Algeria in Others' Languages, ed. Anne-Emmanuelle Berger / 193 |
Charles D. Minahen Rimbaud et l'Algérie, by Hédi Abdel-Jaouad / 194 Aida Bamia Politics, Language, and Gender in the Algerian Arabic Novel, by Debbie Cox / 195 Farida Abu-Haidar Tawfiq al-Hakim: A Reader's Guide, by William Maynard Hutchins / 198 Neil ten Kortenaar Sign and Taboo: Perspectives on the Poetic Fiction of Yvonne Vera, ed. Robert Muponde and Mandi Taruvinga / 199 Michael Chapman Representing Dissension: Riot, Rebellion and Resistance in the South African English Novel, by J. A. Kearney / 200 Robert Elliot Fox Resistance and Consciousness in Kenya and South Africa: Subalternity and Resistance in the Novels of Ngugi wa Thiong'o and Alex La Guma, by Anders Breidlid / 201 Oyekan Owomoyela The Generation of Plays: Yoruba Popular Life in Theater, by Karin Barber / 202 Karin Barber Bibliographical Survey of Sources for Early Yoruba Language and Literature Studies, 1820-1970, by F. Adetowun Ogunsheye / 203 H. Adlai Murdoch Masking and Power: Carnival and Popular Culture in the Caribbean, by Gerard Aching / 205 Mildred Mortimer De la Guyane à la diaspora africaine: écrits du silence, by Florence Martin and Isabelle Favre / 206 Kwaku Larbi Korang Literary Culture in Colonial Ghana: "How to Play the Game of Life," by Stephanie Newell / 208 Anuradha Dingwaney Needham A History of Black and Asian Writing in Britain, 1700-2000, by C. L. Innes African-British Writings in the Eighteenth Century: The Politics of Race and Reason, by Helena Woodard / 211 Jack Fellman Amharic Cultural Reader, by Wolf Leslau and Thomas L. Kane / 213 Dominic Thomas Francophone Studies: The Essential Glossary, ed. Margaret A. Majumdar / 214 FORUM / 216 ANNOUNCEMENTS / 218 GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSIONS / 219 |
CONTENTS Volume 35, Number 2 Summer 2004
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Special Issue HAITI, 1804-2004 LITERATURE, CULTURE, AND ART John Conteh-Morgan Editor's Acknowledgments / v Edwidge Danticat Preface / vii Martin Munro Can't Stand Up for Falling Down: Haiti, Its Revolution, and Twentieth-Century Negritudes / 1 Nick Nesbitt Troping Toussaint, Reading Revolution / 18 Jean-François Brière Abbé Grégoire and Haitian Independence / 34 J. Michael Dash Nineteenth-Century Haiti and the Archipelago of the Americas: Anténor Firmin's Letters from St. Thomas / 44 Rafael Lucas The Aesthetics of Degradation in Haitian Literature / 54 Donette A. Francis "Silences Too Horrific to Disturb": Writing Sexual Histories in Edwidge Danticat's Breath, Eyes, Memory / 75 Cilas Kemedjio Postcolonial Mythologies: Jean Metellus and the Writing of Charismatic Memory / 91 Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert The Haitian Revolution in Interstices and Shadows: A Re-reading of Alejo Carpentier's The Kingdom of This World / 114 George Lang A Primer of Haitian Literature in Kreyòl / 128 Jean Jonassaint Beyond Painting or Writing: Frankétienne's Poetic Quest / 141 |
COMMENTARY
Joan Dayan A Few Stories about Haiti, or, Stigma Revisited / 157 Erika Bourguignon Haiti and the Art of Paul-Henri Bourguignon / 173 REVIEW ESSAY E. Anthony Hurley Translating Jacques Stephen Alexis / 189 BOOK REVIEWS J. Michael Dash Haitian Revolutionary Studies, by David Patrick Geggus / 197 H. Adlai Murdoch A Turbulent Time: The French Revolution and the Greater Caribbean, ed. David Barry Gaspar and David Patrick Geggus / 199 Kwadwo Osei-Nyame, Jr. Frantz Fanon: A Life, by David Macey / 200 Benita Sampedro Divine Utterances: The Performances of Afro-Cuban Santeria, by Katherine J. Hagedorn / 203 GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSIONS / 205 |
CONTENTS Volume 35, Number 3 Fall 2004
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TRIBUTES
Jean Ouédraogo Ahmadou Kourouma and the Ivoirian Crisis / 1 Alain Ricard Jean Rouch: Some Personal Memories / 6 ARTICLES Michael J. C. Echeruo Christopher Okigbo, Poetry Magazine, and the "Lament of the Silent Sisters" / 8 Jeff Opland First Meeting with Manisi / 26 Diana Adesola Mafe From Ògún to Othello: (Re)Acquainting Yoruba Myth and Shakespeare's Moor / 46 Andrew Smith Reading against the Postcolonial Grain: Migrancy and Exile in the Short Stories of Kanchana Ugbabe / 62 Stéphane Robolin Gendered Hauntings: The Joys of Motherhood, Interpretive Acts, and Postcolonial Theory / 76 Akintunde Akinyemi Positive Expression of Negative Attributes: An Aspect of Yorùbá Court Poetry / 93 Anita Pandey Language and Representation: Linguuistic Aesthetics of Female West African Writers / 112 A. James Arnold Césaire's Notebook as Palimpsest: The Text before, during and after World War II / 133 COMMENTARY Gaurav Desai Gendered Self-Fashioning: Adelaide Casely Hayford's Black Atlantic / 141 INTERVIEW Angela Lamas Rodrigues Beyond Nativism: An Interview with Ngugi wa Thiong'o / 161 |
BOOK REVIEWS
Kenneth W. Harrow Ciné-Ethnography/Jean Rouch, ed. and trans. Steven Feld / 168 Kenneth W. Harrow Rereading Camara Laye, by Adele King / 170 Janice Spleth Ethiopiques 69: Léopold Sédar Senghor / 174 Phyllis Taoua Negritude Women, by T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting / 175 Lyn Innes Comedy, Fantasy and Colonialism, ed. Graeme Harper / 177 Lyn Innes The Hybrid Muse: Postcolonial Poetry in English, by Jahan Ramazani / 178 F. Abiola Irele Forms of Protest: Anti-Colonialism and Avant-Gardes in Africa, the Caribbean, and France, by Phyllis Taoua / 180 Loren Kruger Apartheid's Festival: Contesting South Africa's National Pasts, by Leslie Witz / 182 Helene Fehervary Contemporary Jewish Writing in South Africa: An Anthology, ed. Claudia Bathsheba Braude / 184 Jack Fellman A Critical Anthology of Ethiopian Literature, by Taddesse Adera and Ali Jimale Ahmed / 186 Leora Maltz African Cultures, Visual Arts, and the Museum: Sights/Sites of Creativity and Conflict, ed. Tobias Döring / 187 Hélène Tissières Picturing the Maghreb: Literature, Photography, (Re)Presentation, by Mary B. Vogl / 189 David Westley The African Studies Companion: A Guide to Information Sources, ed. Hans M. Zell / 191 ANNOUNCEMENTS / 193 GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSIONS / 194 |
CONTENTS Volume 35, Number 4 Winter 2004
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Christie McDonald Ethnography, Literature, and Art in the Work of Anne Eisner (Putnam): Making Sense of Colonial Life in the Ituri Forest / 1 János Riesz From Ethnography to the African Novel: The Example of Doguicimi (1938) by Paul Hazoumé (Dahomey) / 17 Tamlyn Monson Conserving the Cogito: Rereading Nadine Gordimer’s The Conservationist / 33 Ronit Fainman-Frenkel Ordinary Secrets and the Bounds of Memory: Traversing the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Farida Karodia’s Other Secrets and Beverley Naidoo’s Out of Bounds / 52 Evan Mwangi The Gendered Politics of Untranslated Language and Aporia in Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Petals of Blood / 66 Shirin Edwin African Muslim Communities in Diaspora: The Quest for a Muslim Space in Ken Bugul’s Le baobab fou / 75 Jane Hiddleston Feminism and the Question of “Woman” in Assia Djebar’s Vaste est la prison / 91 Siobhan McIlvanney Double Vision: The Role of the Visual and the Visionary in Nina Bouraoui’s La voyeuse interdite (Forbidden Vision) / 105 Valerie Kaussen Slaves, Viejos, and the Internationale: Modernity and Global Contact in Jacques Roumain’s Gouverneurs de la rosée / 121 COMMENTARY Reuben Abati On Dapo Adelugba and Theater Studies in Nigeria / 142 REVIEW ESSAYS Clarisse Zimra Hearing Voices, or, Who You Calling Postcolonial? The Evolution of Djebar’s Poetics / 149 |
F. Abiola Irele Philosophy and the Postcolonial Condition in Africa / 160 BOOK REVIEWS Vinay Swamy Geo/Graphies: Mapping the Imagination in French and Francophone Literature and Film, ed. Freeman G. Henry / 171 Patrick Manning The French Encounter with Africans: White Responses to Blacks, 15301880, by William B. Cohen / 172 H. Adlai Murdoch Voicing Memory: History and Subjectivity in French Caribbean Literature, by Nick Nesbitt / 173 Mary Anne Harsh Of Suffocated Hearts and Tortured Souls: Seeking Subjecthood through Madness in Francophone Women’s Writing of Africa and the Caribbean, by Valérie Orlando / 175 Samba Diop Des transpositions francophones du mythe de Chaka, by Kahiudi Claver Mabana / 177 Nina Berman Nicht nur Mythen und Märchen: Afrika-Literaturwissenschaft als Herausforderung,ed. Flora Veit-Wild / 179 Sylvie Kandé Women and the Amistad Connection—Sierra Leone Krio Society, by Filomina Chioma Steady / 180 Joseph McLaren Ralph Ellison: Emergence of Genius, by Lawrence Jackson / 185 F. Odun Balogun The People’s Poet: Emerging Perspectives on Niyi Osundare, ed. Abdul-Rasheed Na’Allah / 186 EVALUATORS FOR VOLUME 35 / 189 BOOKS RECEIVED / 190 GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSIONS / 191 INDEX TO VOLUME 35 / 193 |
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