Journal of the African Literature Association, Volume 15, Issue 3 (2021)

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Journal of the African Literature Association, Volume 15, Issue 3 (2021)

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Egypt in Focus: Creativity in Adversarial Contexts

Research Article

Article
Egypt in focus: creativity in adversarial contexts
Nevine El Nossery & Shereen Abouelnnaga
Pages: 327-331
Published online: 27 Aug 2021
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“The cultural politics of food in selected Egyptian films”
Pervine Elrefaei
Pages: 332-347
Published online: 13 Jul 2021
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Framing the (in)sensible in Egypt’s post-2011 satirical novels in The Queue and Cats of the Eluded Year
Mary Youssef
Pages: 348-363
Published online: 09 Sep 2021
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A brief history of the future of culture in Egypt
Chihab El Khachab
Pages: 364-378
Published online: 13 Jul 2021
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The city and its martyrs: Cairo as the site of an alternative historiography in Omar Robert Hamilton’s The City Always Wins
Hala G. Sami
Pages: 379-393
Published online: 06 Aug 2021
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“The people’s wisdom” and the 2011 Egyptian Revolution: folklore, colloquial poetry, and subalternity in Shaima’ al-Sabbagh’s praxis
Hala Halim
Pages: 394-412
Published online: 26 Jul 2021
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Alternative Egyptian feminist journalism: the case of Wlaha Wogoh Okhra
Hala Kamal
Pages: 413-428
Published online: 05 Jul 2021
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The poetics of hope and frustration: young Egyptian poets interrogating the nation
Faten I. Morsy
Pages: 429-445
Published online: 06 Jul 2021
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Archival critique and activism: memory, preservation, and digital visual cultures in post-revolutionary Egyptian heterotopias
Nancy Demerdash
Pages: 446-466
Published online: 22 Jul 2021
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Constructing the present and envisioning the future in the studio arts in Cairo
Caroline Seymour-Jorn
Pages: 467-486
Published online: 26 Jul 2021
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Egyptian feminist artivism post-2011: Bnt Al Masarwa as new turn?
Hana Shaltout
Pages: 487-508
Published online: 26 Aug 2021
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Nomadic citizenship: reflections on exile and the revolution
May Telmissany
Pages: 509-523
Published online: 11 Aug 2021
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Death of the revolution, death of the event: cinema and politics in the aftermath of the Egyptian spring
Walid El Khachab
Pages: 524-541
Published online: 15 Sep 2021
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Re-imagining the father-figure in contemporary writing about Somalia
Yunusy Castory Ng’umbi
Pages: 542-556
Published online: 01 Jun 2021
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Chief Adolphus Munamuna, Ọụbẹbẹ Kẹnị Ịjọ Ibe (the chief oral poet of the Ịjọ nation): the Ịjọ praise poet and the Niger Delta issue
Imomotimi Armstrong
Pages: 557-572
Published online: 24 Feb 2021
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Matters of survival: a case of heavy handed didactic moralism in Ndau cautionary folktales
Willie Chigidi
Pages: 573-589
Published online: 13 Apr 2021
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L’Afrique n’est pas pauvre: entretien avec Aminata Dramane Traoré
Debra S. Boyd
Pages: 590-597
Published online: 05 Aug 2021
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Book Review

Book Review
The Voice of the Text and Its Body: The Continuous Reform of Euphrase Kezilahabi’s Poetics
Taylor A. Eggan
Pages: 598-599
Published online: 11 Mar 2021
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Book Review
Childhood in contemporary diasporic African literature: memories and futures past
by Christopher E. W. Ouma, Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, 202 pp., ISBN 978-3-030-36256-0 (eBook).
Chigbo Arthur Anyaduba
Pages: 600-602
Published online: 13 Oct 2021
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African literature in the digital age: class and sexual politics in new writing from Nigeria and Kenya
By shola Adenekan. Rochester, USA: Boydell and Brewer, 2021. 224 pages. ISBN-978-1-84701-238-8: Hardback. £65.00/$115.00
Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang
Pages: 602-603
Published online: 11 Aug 2021
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