A Companion to African Literatures

Notes on Contributors


Preface


Part I East and Central Africa


1. East and Central Africa: An Introduction


--Grace A. Musila


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


--Katwiwa Mule


3. Of Authenticity and Engagement in Francophone African Cultural Production


--Brian Valente-Quinn


4. Literature and Hybridity in Mauritius and Reunion


--Anjali Prabhu


5. The Representation of Nation and National Identity in Modern Amharic Literature


--Tewodros Gebre


6. Swahili Literature (Fasihi ya Kiswahili)


--Evan Maina Mwangi


Part II North Africa


7. North Africa: An Introduction


--Mohamed-Salah Omri


8. Nation and Identity in Modern Arabic Literature in Egypt


--Ahmed Idrissi Alami


9. Hyphens and Hymens: Franco-Arab Literature of the Maghreb


--yasser elhariry


10. Translation and North African Letters


--Tahia Abdel Nasser


11. Cross-pollination and Interweavings Between the Maghreb and Sub-Saharan Africa Through Art, Cinema, and Music


--Helene Tissieres


12. France and North Africa: A Cinematic Retrospective of Centuries of Entangled Relations


--Fazia Aitell


Part III Southern Africa


13. Southern Africa: An Introduction


--Stefan Helgesson


14. Anglophone Literature of South Africa


--Peter Blair


15. The Machinery of Life-Writing Under Zimbabwe's Third Chimurenga


--Josiah Nyanda


16. Afrikaans Cultural Expressions of the Powerless and Subjugated


--Hein Willemse


17. Lusophone Southern African Literature (Angola, Mozambique)


--Luis Madureira


18. A Socio-Critical Survey of Black South African English Poetry 1900-2000


--Thengani H. Ngwenya


Part IV West Africa


19. West Africa: An Introduction


--Olakunle George


20. West African Literature in English


--Neil ten Kortenaar


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


--Cilas Kemedjio


22. Reading Yoruba Literature


--Adeleke Ade??k??


Part V Redoublings and Reconstellations


23. Post-hybrid Conjunctive Consciousness in the Literature of the New African Diaspora


--Lokangaka Losambe


24. Outing Africa: On Sexualities, Gender, and Transgender in African Literatures


--Chantal Zabus


25. African Literature and the European Canon: From Past to Present and Back Again


--Jeanne-Marie Jackson


26. War, Human Rights, and Historical Representation: Torture as Synecdoche


--Eleni Coundouriotis


27. African Literature's Other Media: Art Film, Nollywood


--Noah Tsika


28. Navigating Digital Worlds: African Literary Forms in the Digital Age


--Stephanie Bosch Santana


Index