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From:Research in African Literatures (Vol. 52, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedChristopher Miller recently supported Adele King's exposure of L'enfant noir (1953) as likely having been ghostwritten, thus ingraining the stain of French anti-independence conspiracy on the founding novel of...
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From:Research in African Literatures (Vol. 52, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedYour Feet Will Lead You Where Your Heart Is / Le crepuscule des ames soers EDITED BY DZEKASHU MACVIBAN AND NFOR E. NJINYOH Bakwa Books, 2020. 430 pp. ISBN 9781733752626. This innovative bilingual anthology...
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From:Research in African Literatures (Vol. 52, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThrough the study of Rioseco (1999), a little-known novel written by the Angolan author Manuel Rui, this article proposes to examine how, during some of the country's darkest hours, Angolan postcolonial literature...
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From:Research in African Literatures (Vol. 52, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAfrican Literature in the Digital Age: Class and Sexual Politics in New Writing from Nigeria and Kenya BY SHOLA ADENEKAN Boydell and Brewer, 2021. x + 210 pp. ISBN 9781847012388 cloth. Shola Adenekan's African...
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From:Research in African Literatures (Vol. 52, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis article is a study of the transformation of harems and hammams from marginalized, gender-secluded locations to sites for and of resistance in Assia djebar's Ombre Sultane [A Sister to Scheherazade] and Femmes...
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From:Research in African Literatures (Vol. 52, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis study contextualizes and theorizes Nigeriopolitanism as a tool wielded by many Nigerian authors for the purpose not only of countering essentialized constructions of Nigerian identity in 19th- and early 20th-century...
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From:Research in African Literatures (Vol. 52, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBooks Reviewed Body Politics: Fingerprinting Contemporary Dance in South Africa BY ADRIENNE SICHEL Ar(t)chive and Porcupine Press, 2018. 234 pp. ISBN 9781928455080 ebook. Acts of Transgression: Contemporary Live Art...
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From:Research in African Literatures (Vol. 52, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis paper examines Chimamanda Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun as a work of postmemory. It argues that the novel disrupts the state repression, institutionalized amnesia, and traumatic silence that surround the...
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From:Research in African Literatures (Vol. 52, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThere are eight volumes in the Africa Pulse series recently published by Oxford University Press (South Africa). This set of books represents one of the most dynamic contributions to the African literary heritage for...
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From:Research in African Literatures (Vol. 52, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedTragedy and Postcolonial Literature ATO QUAYSON Cambridge UP, 2021. 346 pp. ISBN 9781108921992 paper. Ato Quayson's Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature opens with lamentations for the hanging of Ken Saro-Wiwa by...
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From:Research in African Literatures (Vol. 52, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAmericanah (2013) by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie brought to the forefront the natural hair movement as a form of resistance to Western aesthetics. However, this conversation overlooks the labor that goes into creating...
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From:Research in African Literatures (Vol. 52, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe "igidi," a culturally relevant tool in literary criticism, is important in Nnabuenyi Ugonna's study of the dramatic aspects of the Igbo ancestral mask in Mmonwu: A Dramatic Tradition of the Igbo. The "igidi," as an...
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From:Research in African Literatures (Vol. 52, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedPolitical life narratives have emerged in Zimbabwe and elsewhere to contest, rebut, or corroborate versions of official history on nationalist trajectories from the liberation struggles and thereafter. This development...
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From:Research in African Literatures (Vol. 52, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedNaked Agency: Genital Cursing and Biopolitics in Africa BY NAMINATA DIABATE Duke UP, 2020. xii + 259 pp. ISBN 9781478006886 paper. Naminata Diabate's Naked Agency engages the performance of the gesture of female...
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From:Research in African Literatures (Vol. 52, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn the aftermath of colonization with its psychologically devastating impact on the colonized, narratives of trauma face the difficulty of describing the painful experience of the victimized due to the failure of the...
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From:Research in African Literatures (Vol. 52, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis article explores the repressed autobiographical narrative that runs through Margaret Ogola's Place of Destiny (2005). Based on Ogola's experience, the novel takes the form of a fictional autobiography as it...