Volume 46
VOL. 46, No. 1, 2009
Special Issue: Human Rights and Literary Forms
Guest Editors: Sophia A. McClennen and Joseph R. Slaughter
Articles
Introducing Human Rights and Literary Forms; or, The Vehicles
and Vocabularies of Human Rights
Sophia A. McClennen and Joseph R. Slaughter
The War on Terror Espionage Thriller, and the Imperialism of Human Rights
David Holloway
“Gotta Serve Somebody”: Service; Autonomy; Society
Susan Maslan
The Novel and Prejudice
Sarah Winter
The Violence of the Present: David’s Story and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Aryn Bartley
Flashforward Democracy: American Exceptionalism and the Atomic Bomb in Barefoot Gen
Christine Hong
Novel Truths: Literature and Truth Commissions
Paul Gready
Beyond the Right to Literature
Marcos Piason Natali
Book Reviews
Lynn Hunt. Inventing Human Rights
(Belinda Walzer)
James Dawes. That the World May Know: Bearing Witness to Atrocity
(Daniel Listoe)
Joseph R. Slaughter. Human Rights, Inc.: The World Novel, Narrative Form, and International Law
(Shashi Thandra)
Pheng Cheah. Inhuman Conditions: On Human Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights
(Claudia Sadowski-Smith)
Kay Schaffer and Sidonie Smith. Human Rights and Narrated Lives: The Ethics of Recognition
(Ryan Mauldin)
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
