Journal of the African Literature Association, Volume 16, Issue 2 (2022)

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Journal of the African Literature Association, Volume 16, Issue 2 (2022)

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Critical Engagements with the Work of Bernth Lindfors

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Ben Lindfors and his palavers with African literature
Supriya M. Nair
Pages: 223-230
Published online: 19 Jul 2022
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Bernth Lindfors’s archive fever
Olabode Ibironke
Pages: 231-241
Published online: 25 Jul 2022
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Bernth Lindfors and Dennis Brutus in association: African literary studies, anti-apartheid politics, and the paradox of competing principles
Salah D. Hassan
Pages: 242-259
Published online: 10 Aug 2022
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“Other voices, other rooms:” notes on the production of Africanist scholarship in Africa and in the global north
Chris Dunton & David Attwell
Pages: 260-271
Published online: 10 Aug 2022
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Critical Engagements with the Work of Carole Boyce Davies

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Carole Boyce Davies and Claudia Jones: radical Black female subjectivity, mutual comradeship, and alternative epistemology
Charisse Burden-Stelly
Pages: 272-285
Published online: 22 Jun 2022
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Going a piece of the way with Carole Boyce Davies’s migrating subject: on open reading, naked agency, and Naked Athena
Naminata Diabate
Pages: 286-301
Published online: 13 May 2022
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Additional Research Articles

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Bonding beyond struggle: a reconsideration of female togetherness in Sefi Atta’s Everything Good Will Come
Sandra Nwokocha
Pages: 302-316
Published online: 21 Jan 2022
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Orphans of the nation: Transitional justice practices in third generation Nigerian child soldier narratives
Alexander Hartwiger
Pages: 317-331
Published online: 11 May 2022
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Ambivalence in the stand-up acts of Nigeria’s Klint da Drunk and Mr Paul
Izuu Nwankwọ
Pages: 332-347
Published online: 06 May 2022
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Créolité et mort: une poétique des identités dans Traversée de la mangrove
Patoimbasba Nikiema
Pages: 348-362
Published online: 08 Jul 2022
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Notes from the Field: Teaching African Literature in Covid Times/Enseignement et pratiques de la littérature dans les universités africaines à l’ère de Covid

Enseigner ou apprendre sous covid-19 en Afrique du Sud: le cas de la littérature et des cultures francophones africaines à l’Université de KwaZulu-Natal
Roger Fopa-Kuete, Laude Ngadi-Maïssa & Philip Awezaye
Pages: 363-368
Published online: 12 May 2022
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«La dimension cachée» des pratiques enseignantes en situation de covid 19 à l’Ecole normale supérieure de Maroua à Kongola Djoulgouff-Kodek
Albert Jiatsa-Jokeng
Pages: 368-374
Published online: 09 Jun 2022
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Enjeux, pratiques et perspectives d’une ingénierie “phygitale” pour l’enseignement des littératures africaines à l’ère de la Covid à L’Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny
Tite Lattro & Cédric-Marshall Kissy
Pages: 375-380
Published online: 11 May 2022
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L’Université Cheikh Anta Diop face à la crise: se servir des dispositifs numériques comme tremplins pour enseigner la littérature en temps de COVID
Aminata Aidara
Pages: 381-385
Published online: 13 May 2022
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Mobility in contemporary Zimbabwean literature in English: crossing borders, transcending boundaries
By Magdalena Pfalzgraf. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2022. 260 pages. ISBN: 978-0-367-63781-1, Hardback, USD 132.00. ISBN: 978-1-003-14607-0, eBook, USD 48.95
Cuthbeth Tagwirei
Pages: 386-387
Published online: 03 Mar 2022
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African women writing diaspora: transnational perspectives in the twenty-first century
Kelsey Flint-Martin
Pages: 388-389
Published online: 04 Jan 2022
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Routledge Handbook of African Literature
A Companion to African Literatures
by Moradewun Adejunmobi and Carli Coetzee. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2019. ISBN-13: 978-113871386: $250.00 (Hardback). ISBN-13: 978-0367783877. $52.95 (Paperback). ISBN-13: 978-1315229546. $47.65 (eBook).
by Olakunle George. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell, 2021. 512 pages. ISBN-13: 978-1119058175. $195.00 (Hardback)
Madhu Krishnan
Pages: 390-393
Published online: 09 Nov 2021
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A Companion to African Literatures | Full Text | References | PDF (221.7 KB) | EPUB
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Experiencing WS: the making of an artist scholar, by Femi Euba. New York: Austin Macauley Publishers, 2021. 275 pages. ISBN-13: 978-1-6437898-2-8: Paperback. $15.95
Chima Osakwe
Pages: 393-395
Published online: 24 Jun 2022
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Book Review Forum

Book Review
Naminata Diabate, Naked Agency: Genital Cursing and Biopolitics in Africa
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. 259 pages. ISBN: 978-1-4780-0688-6; paperback, USD 26.95
Naminata Diabate
Pages: 399-408
Published online: 29 Apr 2022
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