A Companion to African Literatures

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Preface
Part I East and Central Africa
Chapter 1 East and Central Africa: An Introduction
African-Language Literatures and the Language Question
The Makerere Conference
The Abolition of the English Department
Selected Writers
Diasporic Imaginaries
Present Directions
Bibliography
Chapter 2 Rereading East African Literature Through a Human Rights Lens: The Example of Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Weep Not, Child
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 3 Of Authenticity and Engagement in Francophone African Cultural Production
The African Author and the Duty Toward Engagement
Language and Postcolonial Performance
Cinema and African Postmodernisms
Writing Without France: Defining New Approaches
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 4 Literature and Hybridity in Mauritius and Réunion
Language and Literacy
The Colonial Novel and Hybridity
Fluid Hybridities in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 5 The Representation of Nation and National Identity in Modern Amharic Literature
Constructing and Narrating the Modern Nation, 1896–1960
Walks on a Thin Line between Hope and Despair, 1960–1974
The Quest for Hibretesebawinet, 1974–1991
The Phoenix Rises from the Ashes of Ethnic Strife: 1991 to Present
The Politics of Authorship, Language, and Identity
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 6 Swahili Literature (Fasihi ya Kiswahili)
Introduction: The Intercultural Heritage
Oral Literature/Orature (Fasihi Tamshi)
Early Writing: Beginnings in Religious Verse
The Rise of Secular Writing
Poetry of the Nonconforming “Modernists”
Prose
Drama and Theater
Women Writers and Gender Concerns
Swahili Translations
Conclusion
Bibliography
Part II North Africa
Chapter 7 North Africa: An Introduction
The Nomenclature: North Africa, the Maghreb, the Mashriq, and Africa
Institutions of Literature
Vectors of Literary Traffic
The Multilingual Imperative
Dominant, Emergent, and Receding Voices and Forms
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 8 Nation and Identity in Modern Arabic Literature in Egypt
Bibliography
Chapter 9 Hyphens & Hymens: francoarab Literature of the Maghreb
Our Letter
Hyphens
… & Hymens
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 10 Translation and North African Letters
Arab–Latin American Translation Flows
Sonallah Ibrahim: Warda from Egypt to Cuba
Mohamed Makhzangi: Clandestine in Chernobyl
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 11 Cross-Pollination and Interweavings between the Maghreb and Sub-Saharan Africa Through Art, Cinema, and Music
Artistic Mnemotechnical Devices to Fight the Intangible Appearance of Ghosts: Clarke, Attia, Koko Bi, Allouache, and Awadi
In Further Pursuit of Alliances and Modes of Resistance Through Contemplation: Zinoun, Sissako, Ndoye, and Abd Al Malek
Conclusion
Acknowledgment
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 12 France and North Africa: A Cinematic Retrospective of Centuries of Entangled Relations
Early Encounters Unfold in Film
The Birth of Cinema and the History of Cinematic Relation Between North Africa and France
North Africa in French Cinema
Film Producers of North African Descent in France
Amazigh and Women Filmmaking
Notes
Bibliography
Part III Southern Africa
Chapter 13 Southern Africa: An Introduction
Defining the Region
Southern African Literature: A Mirage?
Coda: Figures of the Frontline
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 14 Anglophone Literature of South Africa
British Imperialism and the Segregation Era
Apartheid and the “Interregnum”
Post-Apartheid and the “Post-Transition”
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Selected Anthologies
Chapter 15 The Machinery of Life-Writing Under Zimbabwe’s Third Chimurenga
The Machinery of Life Writing: A Contextual Meaning
Transforming Lives Lived to Lives Told
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 16 The Afrikaans Cultural Expressions of the Powerless and Subjugated
Introduction
The Afrikaans of the Powerless and Subjugated
The Indigenous Oral Tradition and its Afrikaans Continuities
Carnivals, Choirs, and the Theater of Reclamation
Alternative Literacies and Religion
Our Foreigners: Kleurlingdigters and ’n Bantoeskrywer
Black Consciousness: Literature, Resistance, and Struggle
Post-Apartheid: Self-Discovery, Reclamation, and Dialect
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 17 Lusophone Southern African Literature (Angola, Mozambique)
Angola
Mozambique
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 18 A Socio-Critical Survey of Black South African English Poetry, 1900–2000
Emergence of a Mission-Educated African Elite
Protest Poetry of the 1930s and 1940s
Sharpeville: The Start of a Decade of Silence
The Protest Poets of the 1970s and 1980s
Notes
Bibliography
Part IV West Africa
Chapter 19 West Africa: An Introduction
Geographical Boundaries, Literary Horizons
Postcolonial Self-Affirmations
Reading the Postnational Moment
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 20 West African Literature in English
Things Fall Apart and a New Center
Making It New and African
After 1966
A Literature Reborn
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 21 Migration, Literary Imagination, and Mirages in the Francophone Text: Paths to Anthropological Mutilation
The “Lucky Generation” Takes Its Leave
Intertextuality: Textual Migrations and Literary Tradition
The Unrelenting Chimera
On the Road to Anthropological Mutilation
Creative Disorder
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 22 Reading Yorùbá Literature
Introduction
Yorùbá Poetry
Yorùbá Drama
Yorùbá Fiction
Conclusion
Note
Bibliography
Part V Redoublings and Reconstellations
Chapter 23 Post-Hybrid Conjunctive Consciousness in the Literature of the New African Diaspora
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II
III
IV
Bibliography
Chapter 24 Outing Africa: On Sexualities, Gender, and Transgender in African Literatures
From the Mid-Nineteenth Century Through the 1960s and 1970s
From the Late Twentieth Century through the “Turn of the Millennium” on to the Contemporary Moment
Trans Sahara and the New Media
Notes
Bibliography
Filmography
Chapter 25 African Literature and the European Canon: From Past to Present and Back Again
Background
The Twenty-First Century
J. E. Casely Hayford as African Comparatist
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 26 War, Human Rights, and Historical Representation: Torture as Synecdoche
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II
III
IV
V
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 27 African Literature’s Other Media: Art Film, Nollywood
Nollywood and “Minor Transnationalism”
From Christianity to Corporate Sponsorship
Nollywood Stardom
Performing Ethnicity
Conclusions: The Video Aesthetic in African Cinema
Bibliography
Chapter 28 Navigating Digital Worlds: African Literary Forms in the Digital Age
New Media Forms and Platforms
Digital Geographies
Facebook Fictionality
New Opportunities and Challenges
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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