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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE STUDIES

Current Issue

Volume 46, Number 2, 2009

Special Issue: Literatures and Theories of Africa

Guest Editors: Pius Adesanmi, Irène d'Almeida, and Thomas A. Hale


Articles

 

    Consuming Subjects: Theorizing New Models of Agency for Literary Criticism in African Studies
    Wendy Laura Belcher

    Ben Okri, the Aesthetic, and the Problem with Theory
    Sarah Fulford

    The Political Prisoner as Antihero: The Prison Poetry of Wole Soyinka and 'ahmad Fu'ad Nigm
    Randa Abou-bakr

    Sound Effects: Synaesthesia as Purposeful Distortion in Keorapetse Kgositsile’s Poetry
    Tsitsi Jaji

    From Poetry to Prose: The Modern Hausa Novel
    Joanna Sullivan

    Lark Mirror: African Culture, Masculinity, and Migration to France in Alain Mabanckou’s Bleu Blanc Rouge
    Wandia Njoya

    “What are We Blackmen Who are Called French?”: The Dilemma of Identity in Oyono’s Une vie de boy and Sembène’s La Noire de…
    Louis J. Parascandola

    Reading Development and Writing Africa: UNFPA, Nervous Conditions, and The Book of Not
    Fawzia Mustafa

    Women and War in Contemporary Love Stories from Uganda and Nigeria
    Sofia Ahlberg

 

Book Reviews

    James Currey. Africa Writes Back: The African Writers Series & the Launch of African Literature 
    (Joseph L. Mbele)

    Donald R. Wehrs. Islam, Ethics, Revolt: Politics and Piety in Francophone West African and Maghreb Narrative
    (Aaron L. Rosenberg)

    Laura Rice. Of Irony and Empire: Islam, the West, and the Transcultural Invention of Africa
    (Thomas A. Hale)

    Christopher L. Miller.The French Atlantic Triangle: Literature and Culture of the Slave Trade
    (Thomas A. Hale)

 

Updated 22 June, 2009 by Leisa Rothlisberger