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Journal of the African Literature Association, Volume 17, Issue 1 (2023)

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Of Freedom and Literature in Africa and the Diaspora

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Of freedom and literature in Africa and the diaspora

Phyllis Clark Taoua & Grace A. Musila

Pages: 1-13

Published online: 11 Apr 2023

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Belonging and freedom in Ernest Cole’s The House of Bondage

Eleni Coundouriotis

Pages: 14-32

Published online: 13 Mar 2023

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Blackness blurred: (un)belonging, kinship, and métissage in Marie NDiaye’s Ladivine

Polo B. Moji

Pages: 33-48

Published online: 03 Mar 2023

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Mohammed Khelef Ghassani’s “Kwetu”: poetry, place, and liberation

Meg Arenberg

Pages: 49-69

Published online: 23 Feb 2023

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Queer(ing) freedom: rewriting coming-out narratives in contemporary Maghrebian literary production

Gibson Ncube

Pages: 70-86

Published online: 22 Feb 2023

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(Digital) anthologies and genre: Writing sexual pleasure and poetic freedom

Naminata Diabate

Pages: 87-111

Published online: 11 Apr 2023

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Black liberation politics and quagmires in trans-Atlantic black operas

Innocentia J. Mhlambi

Pages: 112-131

Published online: 03 Mar 2023

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Of freedom and the problem of the future in contemporary diasporic African speculative fiction

Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra

Pages: 132-150

Published online: 23 Feb 2023

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Of writing and freedom in Sony Labou Tansi’s novel Life and a Half

Phyllis Clark Taoua

Pages: 151-173

Published online: 22 Feb 2023

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Deconstructing the figure of the dictator in Ramón Esono Ebalé’s La pesadilla de Obi

Joanna Boampong

Pages: 174-191

Published online: 22 Feb 2023

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Refusal and the American dream in Dinaw Mengestu’s oeuvre

Grace A Musila

Pages: 192-209

Published online: 03 Mar 2023

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Digital technology is the future of African literature: Ikhide Roland Ikheloa in conversation with Darlington Chibueze Anuonye

Darlington Chibueze Anuonye

Pages: 210-217

Published online: 30 Jan 2023

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Cultural Netizenship: Social Media, Popular Culture, and Performance in Nigeria

by James Yékú. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2022. xii & 278 pages. ISBN-13 978-0-2530-6049-5 Paperback. $40.00

James Yékú

Pages: 218-228

Published online: 17 Nov 2022

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Singing the Law: Oral Jurisprudence and the Crisis of Colonial Modernity in East African Literature

by Peter Leman. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2020, 272 pp., USD 143, ISBN-13: 978-1-78962-113-6: Hardback

Bwesigye Bwa Mwesigire

Pages: 229-231

Published online: 02 Feb 2023

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Postsecular Poetics: Negotiating the Sacred and Secular in Contemporary African Fiction

by Rebekah Cumpsty. New York, USA: Routledge, 2022. 161 pages. ISBN-13: 978-1-03223-165-5: Hardback. USD 128

Ryan Topper

Pages: 231-233

Published online: 23 Feb 2023

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Of Freedom and Literature in Africa and the Diaspora

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