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CONTENTS Volume 36, Number 1 Spring 2005
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Matthew J. Christensen Cannibals in the Postcolony: Sierra Leone’s Intersecting Hegemonies in Charlie Haffner’s Slave Revolt Drama Amistad Kata-Kata Constance Richards Nationalism and the Development of Identity in Postcolonial Fiction: Zoë Wicomb and Michelle Cliff Apollo O. Amoko The Resemblance of Colonial Mimicry: A Revisionary Reading of Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s The River Between Jennifer Wenzel Voices of Spectral and Textual Ancestors: Reading Tiyo Soga alongside H. I. E. Dhlomo’s The Girl Who Killed to Save Njeri Githire Horizons Adrift: Women in Exile, at Home, and Abroad in Gisèle Pineau’s Works Said A. M. Khamis Signs of New Features in the Swahili Novel COMMENTARY Hélène Tissières Dak’Art 2004: Biennial of Contemporary Art, 7 May7 June, Dakar, Senegal REVIEW ESSAY Sam Durrant Resistance, Reason, and Justice BOOK REVIEWS Jan Jansen Son-Jara: The Mande Epic, by John William Johnson Mary Jo Arnoldi Playing for Life: Performance in Africa in the Age of AIDS, by Louise M. Bourgault |
Annemarie Bean Black Theatre: Ritual Performance in the African Diaspora, ed. Paul Carter Harrison et al. James E. Genoa African Film: Re-imagining a Continent, by Josef Gugler Anne Fuchs The Portable Bunyan, by Isabel Hofmeyr Femi Ojo-Ade Critical Essays on Bessie Head, ed. Maxine Sample Apollo O. Amoko Postcolonial Contraventions, by Laura Chrisman Julia Praud Beyond Empire and Nation: Postnational Arguments in the Fiction of Nuruddin Farah and B. Kojo Laing, by Francis Ngaboh-Smart Benjamin Claude Brower Littérature et temps colonial, ed. Jean-Robert Henry and Lucienne Martini Russell G. Hamilton A History of Postcolonial Lusophone Africa, by Patrick Chabal, with David Birmingham et al. Robert E. Livingston Weary Sons of Conrad, by Brenda Cooper Nick Nesbitt Ici-Là: Place and Displacement in Caribbean Writing in French, ed. Mary Gallagher Joseph McLaren Nationalism, Marxism, and African American Literature between the Wars, by Anthony Dawahare Koffi Anyinefa The Shadow of Imana, by Véronique Tadjo |
CONTENTS Volume 36, Number 2 Spring 2005
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John Conteh-Morgan Editor’s Comments /vii ARTICLES Brent Hayes Edwards Aimé Césaire and the Syntax of Influence /1 Hugh Hodges Start-Over: Possession Rites and Healing Rituals in the Poetry of Lorna Goodison / 19 POLITICAL VIOLENCE Kenneth W. Harrow and Richard K. Priebe Introductory Comments / 33 Kenneth W. Harrow “Ancient Tribal Warfare”: Foundational Fantasies of Ethnicity and History / 34 Richard K. Priebe Literature, Community, and Violence:, Reading African Literature in the West, Post-9/11 / 46 Odile Cazenave Writing the Child, Youth, and Violence into the Francophone Novel from Sub-Saharan Africa: The Impact of Age and Gender / 59 Pascale Perraudin From a “large morsel of meat” to “passwords-in-flesh”: Resistance through Representation of the Tortured Body in Labou Tansi’s La vie et demie / 72 Tirop Simatei Colonial Violence, Postcolonial Violations: Violence, Landscape, and Memory in Kenyan Fiction / 85 FORUM AFRICAN LITERATURE AND THEORY Tejumola Olaniyan Introductory Comments: “Ato Quayson’s Calibrations:Reading for the Social / 95 Anjali Prabhu Reading Calibrations: Re-reading for the Social / 97 Adélékè Adéèkó Symptoms of the Present in Ato Quayson’s Calibrations / 104 Uzoma Esonwanne Calibrations: Literary Reference and the Ethics of Reading / 112 Ato Quayson Incessant Particularities: Calibrations as Close Reading / 122 FILM REVIEW Flora Veit-Wild Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Film Kare Kare Zvako: The Survival of the Butchered Woman / 132 BOOK REVIEWS Ato Quayson Wole Soyinka, by Biodun Jeyifo / 139 Esiaba Irobi Barbs: A Study of Satire in the Plays of Wole Soyinka, by Patrick Ebewo / 142 Brian Crow Role-Play in South African Theatre, by Haike Frank / 144 |
Alain Ricard Nouvelles dramaturgies d’Afrique noire francophone, ed. Sylvie Chalaye / 145 James Gibbs Theatre and Postcolonial Desires, by Awam Amkpa / 146 Daniel P. Kunene Women Writing Africa: Southern African Region, ed. M. J. Daymond et al. / 147 Toyin Falola Mapping Yoruba Networks: Power and Agency in the Making of Transnational Communities, by Kamari Maxine Clarke / 149 Roger Little Kojo Tovalou Houénou, précurseur, 1887–1936: pannégrisme et modernité, by Emile Derlin Zinsou and Luc Zouménou / 150 Hafid Gafaïti Coran et tradition islamique dans la littérature maghrébine, by Carine Bourget / 151 Oniankpo Akindjo The Politics of Frenchness in Colonial Algeria, 1930–1954, by Jonathan K. Gosnell / 152 Bennetta Jules-Rosette The Practice of Diaspora, by Brent Hayes Edwards / 153 Rebecca Wanzo Becoming Black: Creating Identity in the African Diaspora, by Michelle M. Wright / 155 Pia Thielmann The Dynamics of African Feminism: Defining and Classifying African Feminist Literatures, by Susan Arndt / 156 Keith Q. Warner Carnival and the Formation of a Caribbean Transnation, by Philip W. Scher /158 Keith Q. Warner Clear Word and Third Sight: Folk Groundings and Diasporic Consciousness in African Caribbean Writing, by Catherine A. John /159 Roger Little Le Chevalier de Saint-George: biographie, by Claude Ribbe / 160 Karen Haire Hoenig Africa and Europe: En/Countering Myths, ed. Carlotta von Maltzan / 161 Nina Berman Archäologie eines Modernen Mythos: Albert Schweitzers Nachruhm in Europäischen und Afrikanischen Textund Bildmedien, by Sylvère Mbondobari / 162 Ralph A. Austen Djinns, Stars and Warriors: Mandinka Legends from Pakao, Senegal, by Matthew Schaffer / 164 Kenneth W. Harrow African Francophone Cinema, by Samba Diop / 165 ANNOUNCEMENTS / 167 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES / 168 |
CONTENTS Volume 36, Number 3 Fall 2005
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Special Issue Edward Said, Africa, and Cultural Criticism John Conteh-Morgan Editor’s Comments/v ESSAYS Paul Tiyambe Zeleza The Politics and Poetics of Exile: Edward Said in Africa/1 Kwaku Larbi Korang A Man for All Seasons and Climes? Reading Edward Said from and for Our African Place/23 Mildred Mortimer Edward Said and Assia Djebar: A Contrapuntal Reading/53 Ali A. Mazrui The Re-invention of Africa: Edward Said, V.Y. Mudimbe, and Beyond/68 Karlis Racevskis Edward Said and Michel Foucault: Affinities and Dissonances/83 Uzoma Esonwanne Critique and Extension: Said and Freud/98 Neil Lazarus Representations of the Intellectual in Representations of the Intellectual/112 Graham Huggan (Not) Reading Orientalism/124 |
REVIEW ESSAY Gregory Jusdanis Enlightenment Postcolonialism/137 BOOK REVIEWS Kaiama L. Glover Modernity Disavowed: Haiti and the Cultures of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, by Sibylle Fischer/152 Jean Jonassaint Oeuvres complètes de Jacques Roumain, ed. Léon-François Hoffman/153 Derek Attridge Writing in Crisis: Ethics and History in Gordimer, Ndebele and Coetzee, by Stefan Helgesson/154 Martin Banham Playwriting and Directing in Nigeria: Interviews with Ola Rotimi, ed. Effiok Bassey Uwatt/155 M. Keith Booker Literature of Africa, by Douglas Killam/157 Gaurav Desai The Cambridge History of African and Caribbean Literature, Volumes 1 and 2, ed. F. Abiola Irele and Simon Gikandi/158 Submission Guidelines/160 |
CONTENTS Volume 36, Number 4 Winter 2005
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Douglas McCabe “Higher Realities”: New Age Spirituality in Ben Okri’s The Famished Road/1 Pamela Cooper Metamorphosis and Sexuality: Reading the Strange Passions of Disgrace/22 Kimberly Wedeven Segall Pursuing Ghosts: The Traumatic Sublime in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace/40 Maalu-Bungi Mukàndà, A New Form of Oral Poetry/55 Isidore Diala Ritual and Mythological Recuperation in the Drama of Esiaba Irobi/87 Clare Finburgh “The Tragedy of Optimism: Kateb Yacine’s Le cadavre encerclé and Les ancêtres redoublent de férocité/115 Wumi Raji Africanizing Antigone/135 Augustine H. Asaah Veneration and Desecration in Calixthe Beyala’s La petite fìlle du réverbère155 Seth Graebner Remembering 17 October 1961 and the Novels of Rachid Boudjedra/172 |
Nelly LeComte Commerce and Magic/198 Francis Higginson The Well-Tempered Savage: Albert Schweitzer, Music, and Imperial Deafness/205 Review Essays Kenneth W. Harrow “Un train peut en cacher un autre”: Narrating the Rwanda Genocide and Hotel Rwanda/223 Anthère Nzabatsinda Hotel Rwanda/233 Book Reviews Joseph E. Mwantuali Afrique sur Seine: Une nouvelle génération de romanciers africains à Paris, by Odile Cazenave/237 Molefi Kete Asante Marvels of the African World: African Cultural Patrimony, New World Connections, and Identities, ed. Niyi Afolabi/238 C.L. Innes The Internationalization of English Literature, by Bruce King/240 Evaluators for Volume 36/242 Index for Volume 36/243 Announcement/247 Submission Guidelines/248 |
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