A Companion to African Literatures

Notes on Contributors ix

Preface xv

Part I East and Central Africa 1

1 East and Central Africa: An Introduction 3
Grace A. Musila

2 Rereading East African Literature Through a Human Rights Lens: The Example of Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Weep Not, Child 19
Katwiwa Mule

3 Of Authenticity and Engagement in Francophone African Cultural Production 29
Brian Valente-Quinn

4 Literature and Hybridity in Mauritius and Réunion 45
Anjali Prabhu

5 The Representation of Nation and National Identity in Modern Amharic Literature 61
Tewodros Gebre

6 Swahili Literature (Fasihi ya Kiswahili) 79
Evan Maina Mwangi

Part II North Africa 101

7 North Africa: An Introduction 103
Mohamed-Salah Omri

8 Nation and Identity in Modern Arabic Literature in Egypt 117
Ahmed Idrissi Alami

9 Hyphens & Hymens: francoarab Literature of the Maghreb 133
yasser elhariry

10 Translation and North African Letters 151
Tahia Abdel Nasser

11 Cross-Pollination and Interweavings between the Maghreb and Sub-Saharan Africa Through Art, Cinema, and Music 165
Hélène Tissières

12 France and North Africa: A Cinematic Retrospective of Centuries of Entangled Relations 181
Fazia Aïtel

Part III Southern Africa 195

13 Southern Africa: An Introduction 197
Stefan Helgesson

14 Anglophone Literature of South Africa 213
Peter Blair

15 The Machinery of Life-Writing Under Zimbabwe's Third Chimurenga 235
Josiah Nyanda

16 The Afrikaans Cultural Expressions of the Powerless and Subjugated 251
Hein Willemse

17 Lusophone Southern African Literature (Angola, Mozambique) 267
Luís Madureira

18 A Socio-Critical Survey of Black South African English Poetry, 1900-2000 283
Thengani H. Ngwenya

Part IV West Africa 303

19 West Africa: An Introduction 305
Olakunle George

20 West African Literature in English 319
Neil ten Kortenaar

21 Migration, Literary Imagination, and Mirages in the Francophone Text: Paths to Anthropological Mutilation 333
Cilas Kemedjio

22 Reading Yorùbá Literature 351
Adélékè Adeeko

Part V Redoublings and Reconstellations 365

23 Post-Hybrid Conjunctive Consciousness in the Literature of the New African Diaspora 367
Lokangaka Losambe

24 Outing Africa: On Sexualities, Gender, and Transgender in African Literatures 381
Chantal Zabus

25 African Literature and the European Canon: From Past to Present and Back Again 399
Jeanne-Marie Jackson

26 War, Human Rights, and Historical Representation: Torture as Synecdoche 411
Eleni Coundouriotis

27 African Literature's Other Media: Art Film, Nollywood 425
Noah Tsika

28 Navigating Digital Worlds: African Literary Forms in the Digital Age 439
Stephanie Bosch Santana

Index 455