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Expanding the Channels of the African Diaspora

McLaren, Joseph

Research in African Literatures; 03/01/2013
(AN 2013391081)
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Memory/History, Violence, and Reconciliation [Special Section]

Eke, Maureen N.; Kruger, Marie; Mortimer, Mildred

Research in African Literatures; 03/01/2012
(AN 2012391000)
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Asian African Literatures: Genealogies in the Making [Special Issue]

Desai, Gaurav

Research in African Literatures; 09/01/2011
(AN 2011394220)
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Continental Drift: The Disjunction of North and Sub-Saharan Africa

Bentahar, Ziad

Research in African Literatures; 03/01/2011
(AN 2011390652)
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Southern African Literature

Mwikisa, Peter; Lederer, Mary S.; Molema, Leloba

Research in African Literatures; 09/01/2010
(AN 2010395472)
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Domestic Disturbances: African Women's Cultural Production in the Postcolonial Continuum

Kroll, Catherine

Research in African Literatures; 09/01/2010
To theorize the development of African women's writing within the postcolonial continuum invites us to consider multihistories and intractable paradoxes, rather than a seamless unfolding. The urgency to produce works that articulate on-going gendered conflicts, that reconfigure gender identities, and that indict autocratic governments for their role in perpetuating economic and social inequities has surely never been more pronounced. Yet despite the increasing circulation of their plays and novels both at home and abroad, African women writers continue to endure reactions to their work ranging from polite tolerance to paternalistic scorn.
(AN 2010395471)
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The Troubling Popularity of West African Romance Novels

Moudileno, Lydie

Research in African Literatures; 12/01/2008
This essay acknowledges the success, in West Africa, of a collection of romance novels written in French. Launched in the 1990s by the Nouvelles Editions Africaines as the Adoras collection, the series has grown to become one of the most spectacular success stories in African (francophone) editorial history. This essay argues that the popularity of the Adoras novels not only as a popular genre but also as fiction in French can be perceived as troubling in a context where France is still perceived as the sole foyer of francophone creativity, where 'higher' written genres are still struggling with legitimacy issues, and where critics typically declare the absence of a francophone African readership.
(AN 2008397097)
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Staking Claims: Theorizing Female Agency and Empowerment Through Black Women's Literary Writings

Johnson, Newtona (Tina)

Research in African Literatures; 06/01/2008
(AN 2008392294)
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Globalization, Knowledge, and the Limits of (Inter)Disciplinarity

Murphy, David

Research in African Literatures; 09/01/2007
(AN 2007391736)
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Redefining the Novel in Africa

Sullivan, Joanna

Research in African Literatures; 12/01/2006
This article explores Western definitions of the novel and then turns toward an explication of how African writers have altered the genre to suit the needs of their readers, cultures, and literary traditions. Most notably, the contribution of oral traditions has shaped form, content, style, role, characterization, and the notion of quest in African novels. After a general survey of Western and African literature, the article focuses on the modern Hausa novel, which provides a particularly stark contrast to the Western novel, as it is typically short, didactic, and heavily reliant upon stereotypes and patterns. The article argues that, much more than the Western novel, the African novel defies easy genre boundaries. It is, in short, more epic, more political, more didactic, and more connected to its literary antecedents than the Western novel.
(AN 2006402194)
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Creative Writing in African Languages

Barber, Karin; Furniss, Graham

Research in African Literatures; 09/01/2006
(AN 2006395267)
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Why Does a Swahili Writer Write? Euphoria, Pain, and Popular Aspirations in Swahili Literature

Topan, Farouk

Research in African Literatures; 09/01/2006
The paper surveys issues explored in some Swahili works written mainly in the colonial, independence, and postindependence periods. Central to the issues is the writers' perception of their position as citizens, and their relationship to those who govern them. The 'nationalist' agenda, commencing in the nineteenth century, manifests itself in different ways in the three periods. Authors express opposite attitudes during the colonial period: of gratitude for being freed (as slaves), and yet of wanting greater freedom through the practice of law. Independence brings euphoria, and with it, a 'looking back' in history, which sees unity transcending ethnic differences. Finally, the paper assesses the response given by authors to problems that arise in the postindependence period; in particular, it surveys Nyerere's vision of ujamaa as a policy for the betterment of Tanzania. The paper also mentions the effects of globalization, with a clique within the multinationals virtually dominating the economy of developing countries.
(AN 2006395272)
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Can the Sum of an Anthology Be Greater Than Its Parts?

Daymond, M. J.

Research in African Literatures; 09/01/2006
(AN 2007390102)
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Reflections on a Triangular Trade in Borrowing and Stealing: Textual Exploitation in a Selection of African, Caribbean, and European Writers in French

Little, Roger

Research in African Literatures; 03/01/2006
By analogy with the lucrative triangular trade, this paper investigates cases of literature feeding off literature along the edges of that same triangle between Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean. It invites the reader to use the 'borro(w)meter of the palimpsestuous.' Culture-specific conventions are shown to be involved in judging written texts, the very notion of authorial copyright being utterly alien to oral tradition. The earliest writings by blacks attracted suspicions of plagiarism or accusations of being ghosted: Francis Williams in the eighteenth century, Bakary Diallo in the 1920s. Independent writing and thinking were sensed as a threat to white supremacy, and the celebrated cases of Ouologuem and Beyala seem to confirm the trend. Racist disdain pullulates. Yet little attention has been paid to whites who have plagiarized blacks, and Guy des Cars is here denounced for blatantly unacknowledged copying from Senghor. Literary judgments, however, should be preferred to law courts.
(AN 2006400072)
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Edward Said, Africa, and Cultural Criticism

Conteh-Morgan

Research in African Literatures; 09/01/2005
(AN 2005420423)
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Critique and Extension: Said and Freud

Esonwanne, Uzoma

Research in African Literatures; 09/01/2005
Although they are his preferred analytical strategies, critique and extension only emerge fully in Said's later works. Critique entails recognizing prior thinkers' conceptual, theoretical, and methodological advancements while scrupulously acknowledging and specifying their limitations. Extension amplifies those advancements into marginalized domains. Applying these strategies to Said's readings of Freud and reflections on compartmentalization, this paper argues that whereas in earlier projects Said finds in Freud corroborating evidence for the shift from filiation to affiliation, later modified to account for the potential of affiliation to inhabit the emergence of a secular critical consciousness, in later projects he rereads Freud in a manner that allows him to transpose Freud's insights about identity beyond Jew and European. Similarly, it argues that what induces Said to 'jettison' (or compartmentalize) his autobiographical experiences (reading Conrad in the Middle East) in the early phase of his scholarly career is sublimation. Both arguments suggest how African literary criticism and Freudian psychoanalysis may engage each other in productive dialogue.
(AN 2005420429)
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Political Violence

Harrow, Kenneth W.; Priebe, Richard K.

Research in African Literatures; 06/01/2005
(AN 2005631067)
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Literature, Community, and Violence: Reading African Literature in the West, Post-9/11

Priebe, Richard K.

Research in African Literatures; 06/01/2005
Most of the African literature that is widely read is fiction written in French or English and published in the West, and much of that literature features violence. In addressing the question of how we read representations of violence in African literature, and how it functions symbolically, we are inquiring into how literature of violence succeeds or fails as art in general, regardless of culture. Three scenarios emerge: the representations may either overwhelm us with a sense of banality, impress us with the demonic, or offer a sense of the sublime. This essay explores those issues in African works from Okri to Mezlekia, Kourouma, and Djebar to show that violence is always local, but the causes they address are indeed global.
(AN 2005631063)
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Writing the Child, Youth, and Violence into the Francophone Novel from Sub-Saharan Africa: The Impact of Age and Gender

Cazenave, Odile

Research in African Literatures; 06/01/2005
How do women and men think about and represent the child, youth, and violence in francophone African literature today? This question, which I would like to explore in this article, was initially sparked by the observation of two concurrent features in the novel of the past decade: (1) the re-emergence of the child character or/and child voice within a new context, that of violence, and (2) the prevalence of representations of female youth within a violent postcolonial urban landscape. This observation triggered further questions: why and how children are now portrayed as directly part of a process of violence and, at times, were the voices of violence; why, it seems, do women writers choose to focus on youth and violence.
(AN 2005631064)
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Forum: African Literature and Theory

Olaniyan, Tejumola

Research in African Literatures; 06/01/2005
(AN 2005631068)
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Reading Calibrations: Re-Reading for the Social

Prabhu, Anjali

Research in African Literatures; 06/01/2005
(AN 2005631069)
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Symptoms of the Present in Ato Quayson's Calibrations

Adéèkó, Adélékè

Research in African Literatures; 06/01/2005
(AN 2005631070)
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Calibrations: Literary Reference and the Ethics of Reading

Esonwanne, Uzoma

Research in African Literatures; 06/01/2005
(AN 2005631071)
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Incessant Particularities: Calibrations as Close Reading

Quayson, Ato

Research in African Literatures; 06/01/2005
(AN 2005631072)
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Philosophy and the Postcolonial Condition in Africa

Irele, F. Abiola

Research in African Literatures; 12/01/2004
(AN 2004421119)
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Language and Representation: Linguistic Aesthetics of Female West African Writers

Pandey, Anita

Research in African Literatures; 09/01/2004
Language and gender in works by female West African writers are examined in this paper. The prevalence of linguistic and ideological gendering in the corpus is illustrated, and questions raised about the rationale and functionality of the gendered representations. In addition, answers are sought to questions such as 'What drives co-wives to wickedness or insanity?' and 'What accounts for female rivalries, and female-female invectives, including ageism?' Finally, whether the creative writers in question empower the subordinated or propose enabling measures is another aspect explored, before recommendations are offered for the unwritten songs and tales of West Africa's Lawinos.
(AN 2004361026)
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Tribute to David Cook

Raji, Wumi

Research in African Literatures; 03/01/2004
(AN 2004296070)
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Rethinking Francophone Culture: Africa and the Caribbean between History and Theory

Salhi, Kamal

Research in African Literatures; 03/01/2004
In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, large areas of the world were controlled by the French colonial power. As a select few from the indigenous peoples in these areas were educated in colonial schools, it was inevitable that French thought and theory then developing there would influence them in disharmony. They would explore, reinvent, and sometimes apply it to seek the liberation of their people from colonial rule. This article is intended to analyze critical issues relating to Africa and the Caribbean as they rebound in the expression of their writing, and the discourses that have constructed models for interpretative approaches to theoretical frameworks for these writings. It seeks to highlight and rethink the most compelling, shared features of francophone postcolonial cultures and examines what these cultures have in common, and the ways our interests as researchers, citizens, and people with a general influence reflect a shared concern for the complex, postcolonial cultural diversity inherent in the francophone canon.
(AN 2004296072)
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The African Imagination: Postcolonial Studies, Canons, and Stigmatization

Garuba, Harry

Research in African Literatures; 12/01/2003
(AN 2004630205)
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Atalanta's Apples: Postcolonial Theory as a Barrier to the 'Balance of Stories'

Halm, Ben B.

Research in African Literatures; 12/01/2003
(AN 2004630207)
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The Pervasive Force of Music in African, Caribbean, and African American Drama

Morales, Donald M.

Research in African Literatures; 06/01/2003
(AN 2003400256)
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The African Writers Series-Celebrating Forty Years of Publishing Distinction

Clarke, Becky

Research in African Literatures; 06/01/2003
(AN 2003400258)
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African Literature, African Literatures: Cultural Practice or Art Practice?

Chapman, Michael

Research in African Literatures; 03/01/2003
(AN 2003400063)
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Representation and Misrepresentation in Postcolonial Literature and Theory

Holland, Eugene W.

Research in African Literatures; 03/01/2003
(AN 2003400072)
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Negritude and a New Africa: An Update

Thompson, Peter S.

Research in African Literatures; 12/01/2002
(AN 2002402732)
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Ethics and Difference: A Response to Simon Gikandi's 'Theory, Literature, and Moral Considerations'

Harrow, Kenneth W.

Research in African Literatures; 12/01/2002
(AN 2002402733)
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Lilyan Kesteloot and the History of African Literature

Midiohouan, Guy Ossito

Research in African Literatures; 12/01/2002
(AN 2002402735)
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Maghreb-Sub-Saharan Connections

Tissières, Hélène; Jager, Marjolijn de

Research in African Literatures; 09/01/2002
(AN 2002402738)
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Post-Marxism in an African Context: The Usability of Antonio Gramsci

Gorlier, Claudio

Research in African Literatures; 09/01/2002
(AN 2002402741)
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The Transcription Centre in the Sixties: Navigating in Narrow Seas

Moore, Gerald

Research in African Literatures; 09/01/2002
(AN 2002402745)
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Gender, Narrative Space, and Modern Hausa Literature

Alidou, Ousseina

Research in African Literatures; 06/01/2002
(AN 2002402715)
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Theory, Literature, and Moral Considerations

Gikandi, Simon

Research in African Literatures; 12/01/2001
(AN 2002030238)
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The Problem with English Literature: Canonicity, Citizenship, and the Idea of Africa

Amoko, A. O.

Research in African Literatures; 12/01/2001
(AN 2002030239)
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Under the Eyes of Texas

Attwell, David

Research in African Literatures; 12/01/2001
(AN 2002030272)
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Bernth Lindfors and the Archive of African Literature

Harrow, Kenneth W.

Research in African Literatures; 12/01/2001
(AN 2002030273)
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Francophone Women Writing in 1998-99 and Beyond: A Literary Feast in a Violent World

Volet, Jean-Marie

Research in African Literatures; 12/01/2001
(AN 2008399384)
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Nationalism

Harrow, Kenneth W.

Research in African Literatures; 09/01/2001
(AN 2002030280)
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The Nation as a Contested Construct

Yewah, Emmanuel

Research in African Literatures; 09/01/2001
(AN 2002030277)
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Text Setting in African Composition

Euba, Akin

Research in African Literatures; 06/01/2001
(AN 2002016593)
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Where Are All the African and Caribbean Critics? The MLA, Honorary Members, and Honorary Fellows

Moore, David Chioni

Research in African Literatures; 03/01/2001
(AN 2002030628)
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The Co-Centrality of Racial Conciliation in Negritude Literature

Asante-Darko, Kwaku

Research in African Literatures; 06/01/2000
(AN 2000025853)
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The Postcolony as Trope: Searching for a Lost Continent in a Borderless World

Williams, Adebayo

Research in African Literatures; 06/01/2000
(AN 2000025855)
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Europhonism, Universities, and the Magic Fountain: The Future of African Literature and Scholarship

Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Research in African Literatures; 03/01/2000
(AN 2000025833)
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From Myth to Reality: African Philosophy at Century-End

Masolo, D. A.

Research in African Literatures; 03/01/2000
(AN 2008399386)
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'Dear Dolly's Advice': Representations of Youth, Courtship and Sexualities in Africa, 1960-1980

Mutongi, Kenda

International Journal of African Historical Studies; 01/01/2000
(AN 2003390016)
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Writing as Translation: African Literatures and the Challenges of Translation

Gyasi, Kwaku A.

Research in African Literatures; 06/01/1999
(AN 2000004808)
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Tempering Race and Nation: Recent Debates in Diaspora Identity

Kitson, Thomas J.

Research in African Literatures; 06/01/1999
(AN 2000004809)
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Beyond Unicentricity: Transcultural Black Presences

Davies, Carole Boyce

Research in African Literatures; 06/01/1999
(AN 2000004810)
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Tradition and Modernity Are Here to Stay: An Analysis of Francophone African Women's Writings Published in 1997-1998

Volet, Jean-Marie

Research in African Literatures; 06/01/1999
(AN 2000004815)
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The Development of Lusophone Africa's Literary Magazines

Alao, George

Research in African Literatures; 03/01/1999
(AN 2000004803)
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African Absence: A Literature without a Voice

Kom, Ambroise

Research in African Literatures; 09/01/1998
(AN 1999005156)
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African Feminism: Mythical and Social Power in the Orature and Literature of Women of African Descent

Badejo, Diedre L.

Research in African Literatures; 06/01/1998
(AN 1999005169)
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Books for Africans: Margaret Wrong and the Gendering of African Writing, 1929-1963

Brouwer, Ruth Compton

International Journal of African Historical Studies; 01/01/1998
(AN 2003390006)
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Unfinished Business: Dictatorial Literature of Post-Independence Latin America and Africa

Kubayanda, Josephat

Research in African Literatures; 12/01/1997
(AN 1997031081)
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Knowledge Is Like an Ocean: Insiders, Outsiders and the Academy

Schipper, Mineke

Research in African Literatures; 12/01/1997
(AN 2008395717)
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Arabic Writing in Africa

Abu-Haidar, Farida

Research in African Literatures; 09/01/1997
(AN 1997031114)
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Autobiography and African Literature

Geesey, Patricia

Research in African Literatures; 06/01/1997
(AN 1997031070)
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My Mothers/My Selves: (Re)Reading a Tradition of West African Women's Autobiography

Miller, Mary-Kay F.

Research in African Literatures; 06/01/1997
(AN 1997031071)
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The Oral-Written Interface

Ricard, Alain; Swanepoel, C. F.

Research in African Literatures; 03/01/1997
(AN 1997036474)
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Preliminary Notes on Audiences in Africa

Barber, Karin

Africa: Journal of the International African Institute/Revue de l'Institut Africain International; 01/01/1997
(AN 1997038303)
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Problems of Methodology and Interpretation in the Field of Comparative African Literatures

Ogede, Ode S.

Research in African Literatures; 12/01/1996
(AN 1997037430)
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'Too Much in the Sun': Sons, Mothers, and Impossible Alliances in Francophone Maghrebian Writing

Abdel-Jaouad, Hédi

Research in African Literatures; 09/01/1996
(AN 1997037405)
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Rethinking African Literary Criticism: Obioma Nnaemeka

Zongo, Opportune

Research in African Literatures; 06/01/1996
(AN 1997037400)
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The Postcolonial Condition: The Archeology of African Knowledge: From the Feat of Ogun and Sango to the Postcolonial Creativity of Obatala

Tidjani-Serpos, Nouréini

Research in African Literatures; 03/01/1996
(AN 1997037375)
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Emerging from the Shadows: Changing Patterns in Gender Matters

Schipper, Mineke

Research in African Literatures; 03/01/1996
(AN 1997037385)
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African Literature and the World System: Dystopian Fiction, Collective Experience, and the Postcolonial Condition

Booker, M. Keith

Research in African Literatures; 12/01/1995
(AN 1996083581)
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Poetic Serialization: Kiswahili Metapoetry on Prosodic Knots

Njogu, Kimani

Research in African Literatures; 12/01/1995
(AN 1996083586)
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French and British Colonial Language Policies: A Comparative View of Their Impact on African Literature

Michelman, Fredric

Research in African Literatures; 12/01/1995
(AN 1996083592)
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Littérature Francophone-What For?

Vignondé, Jean-Norbert; Ankrom, Jeffrey S.

Research in African Literatures; 06/01/1995
(AN 1997037274)
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Littérature francophone: What For?

Vignondé, Jean-Norbert

Research in African Literatures; 06/01/1995
(AN 2009390793)
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New Trends in Modern African Poetry

Ojaide, Tanure

Research in African Literatures; 03/01/1995
(AN 1997037365)
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Engaging Dreams: Alternative Perspectives on Flora Nwapa, Buchi Emecheta, Ama Ata Aidoo, Bessie Head, and Tsitsi Dangarembga's Writing

Phillips, Maggi

Research in African Literatures; 12/01/1994
(AN 1994035870)
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From Orality to Writing: African Women Writers and the (Re)Inscription of Womanhood

Nnaemeka, Obioma

Research in African Literatures; 12/01/1994
(AN 1994041415)
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Post-Colonial Reader Lost in a Bush of Ghosts: Theories of Africans by Christopher L. Miller

Ricard, Alain

Research in African Literatures; 03/01/1994
(AN 1994081501)
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Narrative Genres and Intertextual Phenomena in the Sahelian Region (Myths, Epics, and Novels)

Dieng, Bassirou; Gyasi, Kwaku A.

Research in African Literatures; 06/01/1993
(AN 1993035823)
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The Black Woman and the Problem of Gender: An African Perspective

Mazrui, Ali A.

Research in African Literatures; 03/01/1993
(AN 1993035818)
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Beyond Hearsay and Academic Journalism: The Black Woman and Ali Mazrui

Ogundipe-Leslie, Molara

Research in African Literatures; 03/01/1993
(AN 1993035819)
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Conservationism and Liberalism in Swahili Poetry: The Linguistic Dimension

Mazrui, Alamin

Research in African Literatures; 12/01/1992
(AN 1992006216)
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Publishing African Literature: In Pursuit of Excellence: Thirty Years of Heinemann African Writer's Series

Maja-Pearce, Adewale

Research in African Literatures; 12/01/1992
(AN 1992006218)
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Publishing African Literature: The Face of Three Continents Press

Burness, Don

Research in African Literatures; 09/01/1992
(AN 1992005750)
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North African Literature

Geesey, Patricia

Research in African Literatures; 06/01/1992
(AN 1992005056)
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Francophone Literature in the Maghreb: The Problem and the Possibility

Déjeux, Jean; Mitsch, Ruthmarie H.

Research in African Literatures; 06/01/1992
(AN 1992005057)
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Francophone North African Literature and Critical Theory

Gontard, Marc; Mitsch, Ruthmarie H.

Research in African Literatures; 06/01/1992
(AN 1992005086)
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The Language Question

Bjornson, Richard

Research in African Literatures; 03/01/1992
(AN 1992005714)
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African-Language Literature: Tragedy and Hope

Kunene, Daniel P.

Research in African Literatures; 03/01/1992
(AN 1992005720)
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Problems in African Literature

Kunene, Mazisi

Research in African Literatures; 03/01/1992
(AN 1992005722)
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Language and Development Strategy in Pan-African Literary Experience

Anyidoho, Kofi

Research in African Literatures; 03/01/1992
(AN 1992005723)
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Relativism, Universalism, and the Language of African Literature

Mazrui, Alamin

Research in African Literatures; 03/01/1992
(AN 1992005724)
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Language, Identity, and Social Construction in African Literature

Owomoyela, Oyekan

Research in African Literatures; 03/01/1992
(AN 1992005726)
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'They Stooped to Conquer': Vernacular Translation and the Socio-Cultural Factor

Sanneh, Lamin

Research in African Literatures; 03/01/1992
(AN 1992005727)
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