Journal of the African Literature Association, Volume 15, Issue 2 (2021)

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Critical Masters Series: Eustace Palmer

Critical Masters: Eustace Palmer

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Introduction: Eustace Palmer, Critic, Novelist & Teacher
Ernest Cole
Pages: 139-151
Published online: 26 May 2021
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“Paying tribute to one of Africa’s [genuine] literary heavyweights: Eustace James Taiwo Palmer”
Abioseh Porter
Pages: 152-160
Published online: 07 Apr 2021
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“In an African context”: Eustace Palmer’s critical studies of African women’s writing
Janice Spleth
Pages: 161-170
Published online: 13 Apr 2021
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Adeola James and the problem of subjectivity: Eustace ‘Palmer’s Plea for Objectivity’
Ernest Cole
Pages: 171-182
Published online: 07 Apr 2021
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Eustace Palmer’s early scholarly contributions
Bernth Lindfors
Pages: 183-197
Published online: 29 Mar 2021
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The critic as a novelist: migrating between writing genres, execution, executing, and self-determination in Eustace Palmer’s A Hanging is Announced
Arthur Onipede Hollist
Pages: 198-208
Published online: 29 Mar 2021
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Of humans and other “humans” also known as nahums: sameness and difference in Eustace Palmer’s Canfira’s Travels
Mohamed Kamara
Pages: 209-222
Published online: 06 Apr 2021
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Social justice in the courtroom: youth culture and multiple narrative voices in Eustace Palmer’s A Hanging Is Announced
Joseph McLaren
Pages: 223-233
Published online: 13 Apr 2021
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Lost & found memories: letters to Dr. P. from his Senegalese students
Oumar Chérif Diop
Pages: 234-244
Published online: 14 Apr 2021
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Additional Research Articles

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Colonialism and sexuality, in Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North and Peter Kimani’s Dance of the Jakaranda
Tomi Adeaga
Pages: 245-256
Published online: 20 Oct 2020
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Décalage and borderscaping in Dinaw Mengestu’s The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears
Kamal Sbiri
Pages: 257-271
Published online: 19 Apr 2021
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“Peace in the home is peace in the nation”: redemption after the Liberian civil wars
Stefanie Sevcik
Pages: 272-288
Published online: 04 Dec 2020
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In defense of secular modernity: Politicizing the body and space in Malika Mokeddem’s Of Dreams and Assassins
Mouhamédoul Amine Niang
Pages: 289-307
Published online: 10 Nov 2020
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Decolonization without a linguistic turn is like drinking sugar without tea: Ọlábíyìí Babalọlá Joseph Yáì
Adélékè Adéẹ̀kọ́
Pages: 308-320
Published online: 22 Apr 2021
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Conversations with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
edited by Daria Tunca, Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2020, 211 pp., $25 (paperback), ISBN-978-1-4968-2927-6
Jumoke Verissimo
Pages: 321-322
Published online: 01 Feb 2021
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Histories of Dirt: Media and Urban Life in Colonial and Postcolonial Lagos
by Stephanie Newell. Durham: Duke University Press (2020). 249 pages. ISBN 9781478006435: Paperback.
Jonathan Haynes
Pages: 323-325
Published online: 09 Mar 2021
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