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
