Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors ix
Preface xv
Part I East and Central Africa 1
1 East and Central Africa: An Introduction 3Grace A. Musila
2 Rereading East African Literature Through a Human Rights Lens: The Example of Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Weep Not, Child 19Katwiwa Mule
3 Of Authenticity and Engagement in Francophone African Cultural Production 29Brian Valente-Quinn
4 Literature and Hybridity in Mauritius and Réunion 45Anjali Prabhu
5 The Representation of Nation and National Identity in Modern Amharic Literature 61Tewodros Gebre
6 Swahili Literature (Fasihi ya Kiswahili) 79Evan Maina Mwangi
Part II North Africa 101
7 North Africa: An Introduction 103Mohamed-Salah Omri
8 Nation and Identity in Modern Arabic Literature in Egypt 117Ahmed Idrissi Alami
9 Hyphens & Hymens: francoarab Literature of the Maghreb 133yasser elhariry
10 Translation and North African Letters 151Tahia Abdel Nasser
11 Cross-Pollination and Interweavings between the Maghreb and Sub-Saharan Africa Through Art, Cinema, and Music 165Hélène Tissières
12 France and North Africa: A Cinematic Retrospective of Centuries of Entangled Relations 181Fazia Aïtel
Part III Southern Africa 195
13 Southern Africa: An Introduction 197Stefan Helgesson
14 Anglophone Literature of South Africa 213Peter Blair
15 The Machinery of Life-Writing Under Zimbabwe's Third Chimurenga 235Josiah Nyanda
16 The Afrikaans Cultural Expressions of the Powerless and Subjugated 251Hein Willemse
17 Lusophone Southern African Literature (Angola, Mozambique) 267Luís Madureira
18 A Socio-Critical Survey of Black South African English Poetry, 1900-2000 283Thengani H. Ngwenya
Part IV West Africa 303
19 West Africa: An Introduction 305Olakunle George
20 West African Literature in English 319Neil ten Kortenaar
21 Migration, Literary Imagination, and Mirages in the Francophone Text: Paths to Anthropological Mutilation 333Cilas Kemedjio
22 Reading Yorùbá Literature 351Adélékè Adeeko
Part V Redoublings and Reconstellations 365
23 Post-Hybrid Conjunctive Consciousness in the Literature of the New African Diaspora 367Lokangaka Losambe
24 Outing Africa: On Sexualities, Gender, and Transgender in African Literatures 381Chantal Zabus
25 African Literature and the European Canon: From Past to Present and Back Again 399Jeanne-Marie Jackson
26 War, Human Rights, and Historical Representation: Torture as Synecdoche 411Eleni Coundouriotis
27 African Literature's Other Media: Art Film, Nollywood 425Noah Tsika
28 Navigating Digital Worlds: African Literary Forms in the Digital Age 439Stephanie Bosch Santana
Index 455