"This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Contemporary African Studies"--Page i. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Chapter 1. The writer as social thinker / Wale Adebanwi -- Chapter 2. Literature, trauma and the African moral imagination / J. Roger Kurtz -- Chapter 3. The infrapolitics of subordination in Patrice Nganang's Dog Days / Moradewun Adejunmobi -- Chapter 4. Imagining a dialectical African modernity : Achebe's ontological hopes, Sembene's machines, Mda's epistemological redness / Melissa Tandiwe Myambo -- Chapter 5. Sexual/textual politics : rethinking gender and sexuality in gay Moroccan literature / Gibson Ncube -- Chapter 6. Against epistemic totalitarianism : the insurrectional politics of Bessie Head / Shiera S. el-Malik -- Chapter 7. The writer as "ragpicker" : the auratic power of the mundane in Nadine Gordimer's recent fiction / Ileana Dimitriu -- Chapter 8. African being and cultural project / Leonard Stone.
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